Burke Road is a major north–south thoroughfare in

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. It runs from Ivanhoe East to

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and through the major shopping district at

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. It is aligned with the western boundary of Elgar's Special Survey, and does not conform to the interval cadastral survey grid for Melbourne.

Route

Burke Road starts at the intersection with Lower Heidelberg and Maltravers Roads, heading south as a dual-lane, single-carriageway road through Ivanhoe East until crossing over the Yarra River, where it widens to a four-lane, dual-carriageway road, crosses the Eastern Freeway, and continues south until it reaches the intersection with High Street, Kilby and Doncaster Roads, where it narrows to a four-lane single-carriageway road. It continues south through

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, over the

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and through

Camberwell Junction Camberwell Junction is a major intersection in Melbourne, Australia. It is at the intersection of Burke Road, Burke, Riversdale and Camberwell Roads. Trams that pass through the junction are the Melbourne tram route 70, 70, Melbourne tram rou ...

, crossing the

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and

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, eventually to terminate at

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, just outside Monash University's Caulfield campus. Tram route 72 runs along the road between

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in Deepdene, and Malvern Road in

History

Burke Road was originally known as Boundary, West Boundary or New Cross Road. The

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(later

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) declared Burke Road a Main Road in June 1983, from Main Heidelberg-Eltham Road (Lower Heidelberg Road) at Ivanhoe East to

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. Burke Road was signed as Metropolitan Route 17 between Ivanhoe East and Caulfield East in 1965. Metropolitan Route 17 continues south, with a brief concurrency along Princes Highway, via Grange Road eventually to

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. The passing of the ''Road Management Act 2004'' granted the responsibility of overall management and development of Victoria's major arterial roads to

: in 2004, VicRoads re-declared the road as Burke Road (Arterial #5874), beginning at Main Heidelberg-Eltham Road (Lower Heidelberg Road) at Ivanhoe East and ending at

Major intersections

Notes and references

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Route

History

Major intersections

See also

Notes and references