40-460: Chandler Highway is a short road in the inner eastern suburbs of Melbourne, connecting Alphington over the Yarra River and Eastern Freeway to Kew. Its total length is less than 2 kilometres, leading to the claim that it is "the shortest highway in the world". It was named after a prominent local businessman and politician A. E. Chandler , who was instrumental in pushing through the development of
80-630: A Main Road by VicRoads. Chandler Highway was originally planned to be extended east along the former Outer Circle railway line corridor to the intersection of Earl, Asquith and Valerie Streets intersect at High Street in East Kew, and, although the route was still listed as a "proposed arterial" in 1980s editions of the Melway street directory, the reserve has since been landscaped. At the diamond interchange with Eastern Freeway , there are visible pavements reserved for
120-422: A bachelor's degree or above, which is 20 points higher than the state average. 43% of residents stated they weren't religious, 21% of residents identified as catholic, 7% of residents identified as Anglican, and 6% of residents identified as Eastern Orthodox. 96% of residents in the district of Kew that are in the labour force are employed. The median weekly personal income of residents is $ 991 ($ 188 higher that
160-521: Is a cantilevered walkway along the west side. The bridge is one of the few 19th century bridges remaining in the metropolitan area. It is a local landmark, being substantially intact and a prominent element in the area. On 30 June 2016, it was added to the Victorian Heritage Register. After the new Chandler Highway road bridges had been opened in 2019 it underwent a restoration, and is now a dedicated shared pedestrian and cycling path. Until
200-574: Is a suburb in Melbourne , Victoria , Australia , 7 km (4.3 mi) north-east of Melbourne's Central Business District , located within the Cities of Darebin and Yarra local government areas . Alphington recorded a population of 5,702 at the 2021 census . Alphington shares a postcode with neighbouring suburb Fairfield , and is bounded by the Yarra River in the south and the Darebin Creek in
240-578: Is an electoral district of the Victorian Legislative Assembly . Located in eastern Melbourne , a few kilometres from the city centre, it is centred on the suburbs of Kew and Kew East . It also contains Balwyn , Balwyn North , Deepdene , and parts of Canterbury , Mont Albert , and Surrey Hills . The current member for Kew is Jess Wilson . The boundaries of the Victorian electoral districts and regions, including Kew, are determined by
280-511: Is part of a village that once had a church, hall and church school, bakery (in the City of Darebin) and the nearby Tower Hotel as its key structures. The two-storey stone shop & residence and the old butcher's shop in Heidelberg Road are contemporary with the stone church and form the beginning of a commercial area that today reflects the key period of development in that area, as also reflected by
320-478: The Outer Circle railway line opened on 24 March 1891, running from Fairfield Park station , via East Camberwell station , to Riversdale station . The line closed shortly after, in 1893, due to a lack of passengers, leaving a disused railway bridge crossing the Yarra River . After the rails were lifted from the bridge in 1919, the single-track railway line north of the bridge, running from Fairfield station through
360-626: The Alphington Swimming Pool. The Melbourne Innovation Centre is located just to the north east of the railway station and adjacent to the shallow valley of the Darebin Creek. There is no pedestrian access along the train bridge over the creek. Amcor , a major paper production plant, operated a Paper Mill in Alphington between 1919 and 2012, after which the land was sold to become a 16.5-hectare (41-acre) residential development. The mill
400-597: The Chandler Highway over the former rail bridge a "public highway" and removed any obligation on the Victorian Railways to maintain it. In December 1954, the Country Roads Board (CRB) (later VicRoads ) performed major maintenance on the bridge, involving deck renewal and the strengthening of the original trusses. It was discovered that the amount of steel corrosion was much greater than expected, lengthening
440-526: The Outer Circle railway. In the north, the Chandler Highway commences at the intersection with Heidelberg Road and Grange Road in Alphington , and runs south as a six-lane, dual-carriageway road, crossing the Yarra River shortly afterwards, and narrowing to a four-lane dual-carriageway road at the intersection with Yarra Boulevard on the river's southern bank. The Fairfield Park to Riversdale section of
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#1732858964784480-589: The boundary of the State Electoral Districts of Kew and Northcote . The State Member for Northcote, Fiona Richardson (Labor) led a community campaign during the term of Premier John Brumby (2007–10) in advocating for the bridge to be duplicated. In October 2010, VicRoads released four proposed options for improving the Yarra River crossing with a new bridge: With the Northcote electorate being one of
520-693: The bridge halted. In the intervening period the Amcor Paper Mill , on the corner of Heidelberg Road and Chandler Highway, Alphington ceased operations and vacated the site in 2012 before it was sold in mid 2013. Successive State governments gave high level approval for residential development at the site subject to detailed planning, to address the likely increased traffic congestion in an already gridlocked area. On 15 June 2014 Labor Opposition Leader Daniel Andrews and Fiona Richardson announced that Labor would commit $ 110 million to fixing Chandler Highway with construction works to commence immediately, if Labor
560-622: The business incubation program. The program has graduated over 400 local enterprises and is a key economic development initiative in Melbourne's North. Melbourne Innovation Centre has expanded across Melbourne's North and North East, opening new incubator spaces in Northcote , Heidelberg West and Greensborough from 2010 to 2017. Local schools include Alphington Grammar School , Alphington Primary School , and St Anthony's Primary School. However, Alphington residents north of Wingrove Street are within
600-512: The completion time well into the following year. On 7 September 1960, the CRB declared the Chandler Highway a Main Road, from Heidelberg Road in Alphington , to Princess Street in Kew . The Chandler Highway became Metropolitan Route 21 in 1965. It shared Metropolitan Route 2, from Yarra Boulevard on the southern bank of the river, to the road's northern terminus at Heidelberg Road, also designated in 1965. That
640-400: The east, and the Yarra River to the south. The character of Alphington East is dominated by detached housing, garden settings, Edwardian and inter-war houses. This area has little remaining industrial or commercial development and relied on easy access to railway lines and coach ways such as Heidelberg Road . As with Richmond , most of the subdivision of this area arose in the boom era of
680-829: The east. Darebin Creek area is the traditional country of the Wurundjeri -willam people who are part of the Woiworung clan of the Kulin Nation , who are traditional owners of the country from west of Melbourne along to the Darebin Creek and to outer eastern Melbourne. For the Wurundjeri-willam people, the fertile Alphington region provided fresh water from the Darebin Creek and seasonal fish, tubers and shoots from water plants; while birds and animals provided clothing and food, trees and plants provided food and tools. The genesis of Alphington
720-700: The few battleground contests between Labor and the Greens Political Parties at the 2010 State Election, the Chandler Highway Bridge became a key election issue. The Labor Party committed to duplicating the bridge, while the Greens opposed such duplication. The seat was subsequently held by Labor, but the Party lost the state election to the Liberal National Coalition government. Plans to duplicate
760-577: The housing to the south, with its early 20th century shops. Alphington has tracts of green open space, such as the Darebin Parklands and Alphington Park. The suburb also features the Latrobe Golf Club. The area around Alphington railway station contains a stand of River Red Gum trees, the oldest of which (closest to Platform 1) likely predates European settlement. These areas have been revegetated with indigenous plantings by local residents and
800-470: The independent and impartial Electoral Boundaries Commission . Redivisions typically occur when there have been two state elections since the last redivision. As of the 2022 Victorian state election , Kew follows the Yarra River along the north and west, follows Winfield Rd, Evelina St, Kerry Pde, Barloa Rd, and York St on the east, and follows Mont Albert Rd and Barkers Rd with the boundary extending down into Canterbury Rd between Balwyn Rd and Burke Rd on
840-508: The late 19th century but with only a few Victorian-era houses evident now. The Yarra-side and hillside allotments could still, however, attract those gentlemen who owned a carriage. Hence when C.B. James and Percy Dobson released their Fulham Grange estate (the former Perry Brothers' orchards), they proclaimed that the acre lots on the Yarra were 'ideal for Gentlemen's Residences'. The St James Park estate, formed around Alphington St and Park Crescent,
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#1732858964784880-425: The local Council beginning in the late 1990s and are now characterized by vigorous young Red Gum growth and the return of native fauna such as tawny frogmouths . Sightings of echidnas have been reported. A notable location in the part of Alphington to the south of Heidelberg Road is the revegetated wetlands. This area abuts the Yarra River, and includes the disused modification to the river bank once referred to as
920-510: The marooned 'Nowhere to Nowhere' line from Clifton Hill to Alphington . A new line was built from Clifton Hill to Princes Bridge in 1901 to allow more direct rail access from Alphington and Fairfield (as well as Collingwood , Abbotsford and West Richmond ) to the growing City of Melbourne and its industrial heartland in Richmond and Collingwood. Hence it was the Edwardian-era that allowed
960-644: The middle of the Heidelberg Road-Chandler Highway intersection, became the Australian Paper Manufacturers siding , which was closed in the mid-1990s. In 1930, the bridge was re-purposed as the "Chandler Highway", which crossed the Yarra and incorporated Fulham Road, south of Heidelberg Road, which the former railway had cut through. The Chandler Highway and Bridge Act 1954 , passed by the Parliament of Victoria on 4 May 1954, declared
1000-557: The opening of the new bridge in March 2019, the highway was badly congested with traffic, since the four-lane highway needed to be funnelled into the two lanes of the old railway bridge to cross the Yarra. The bridge on Chandler Highway regularly featured in the RACV/Leader bi-annual Redspot survey of Melbourne's worst points of traffic congestion, and in 2014 was named in the survey as the worst point of congestion in Melbourne. The bridge sits on
1040-618: The potential for houses to be built in the Alphington area, often in the Queen Anne or Federation Bungalow Styles. This was followed by the short-lived catch-up house boom, after World War I , in the Californian Bungalow style when emerging use of the motor car allowed less residential density further from main centres of industrial and commercial employment. The small commercial group at the Yarralea Street and Heidelberg Road corner
1080-642: The railway station just to the north. The La Sirene brewery was located in Wingrove Street; moving to Darebin when the Melbourne Innovation Centre was closed by Council. Melbourne Innovation Centre (located at 2 Wingrove Street in Alphington) is one of Australia's longest-running and most successful business incubators. The incubator supports local start-ups and SMEs by providing access to office, coworking and workshop space while participating in
1120-454: The south. In the boundary redistribution for the 2022 Victorian state election, Kew gained 6,514 voters from the Box Hill district . The seat is located almost entirely within the federal seat of Kooyong . As per the 2021 census data, the district of Kew encompasses 64,029 people (not all being registered voters) and 26,076 private dwellings. 50% of residents in the district have attained
1160-565: The state median), the median weekly household income of residents is $ 3,010 ($ 874 higher that the state median). 60% of residents in the district of Kew were born in Australia and 11% of residents were born in China. 24% of residents stated they have Chinese ancestry, 24% of residents stated they have English ancestry, and 20% of residents stated they had Australian ancestry. 62% of residents have had at least one of their parents born overseas. The seat
1200-484: The unconstructed entry/exit ramps. The original railway bridge, connecting Alphington and Kew across the Yarra River, was started in February 1889 but not completed until November 1890. The supervising engineer was John Monash . The bridge consists of a four-span iron box girder with red brick abutments and piers, capped with dressed bluestone . The girders are diagonally braced, with wrought iron lattice balustrading. There
1240-466: The zone for Fairfield Primary School. Six bus routes service Alphington: The Chandler Highway runs from Heidelberg Road in Alphington, across a new six-lane bridge over the Yarra River . Its total length is less than 2 kilometres, leading to its claim as "the shortest highway in the world". One railway station services Alphington: Alphington , on the Hurstbridge line . The main shopping strip
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1280-601: Was also launched in the late Victorian-era. Meanwhile, gas companies distributed their domestic gas supply over an ever wider area: the Northern Gas Co. was floated in 1887 and the Heidelberg Gas Co. commenced laying mains, in 1889, as the Heidelberg, Ivanhoe, Alphington and Fairfield Gas Co. Reticulated water was extended to Alphington in 1887. The bulk of housing development arose once efficient and cheap public transport
1320-519: Was created in 1927 and has generally been a safe seat for the Liberal Party and its predecessors. The most notable former member is Dick Hamer , who was Premier of Victoria from 1972 until 1981. From 1927 to 1981, it was held by only three members, all of whom eventually became Deputy Premiers — Wilfrid Kent Hughes , Arthur Rylah and Hamer. In 1851, Nicholas Fenwick purchased 122 acres (Lot 87) for four pounds and six shillings per acre and named
1360-587: Was declared complete in July 2019, with the old bridge converted for use by pedestrians and cyclists. The project also included the construction of a bicycle underpass under the bridge for the Main Yarra Trail , eradicating the need for cyclists to ascend 79 steps to reach the highway and rejoin the trail on the other side. [REDACTED] Australian Roads portal Alphington, Victoria Alphington ( / æ l f ɪ ŋ t ə n / ALF -ing-tən )
1400-420: Was demolished in 2017. Amcor had been found guilty of polluting Alphington's environment on at least three occasions; in 2001 for odour, in 2007 for discharging paper pulp into the Yarra and in 2008, Amcor was convicted for releasing oil into the Yarra from its Alphington plant and fined $ 80,000. In 2013, the company ceased operations at the Alphington plant. An EPA air monitoring station can be found next to
1440-657: Was elected to govern at the 2014 State Election to be held on 29 November. Upon its election in 2014, the Labor government announced that construction would proceed on a new six-lane bridge on the western side. This met with some objections by residents, concerned about the proximity of the road to their residences, but the then Roads Minister Luke Donnellan stated that this was a more environmentally sensitive option, which allowed Guide Dogs Victoria to continue operating on their present site. Construction commenced in mid-2017, all six lanes were opened to traffic in March 2019, and all work
1480-585: Was provided by the upgrade of the Heidelberg railway line in the Edwardian-era. The Clifton Hill to Alphington railway line, isolated as it was from the main system, was built in 1883 but this was the only gesture from a Government which had been extending lines in every other direction across the Colony. It was not until 1889, near the end of the land boom, that a branch railway line was extended from Royal Park to Preston and later to Whittlesea , as well as across to
1520-467: Was replaced by Tourist Route 2 in 1989. The passing of the Road Management Act 2004 gave the responsibility for the management and development of Victoria's major arterial roads to VicRoads . In 2004, VicRoads declared the road as Chandler Highway (Arterial #5859), from Heidelberg Road in Alphington , to Princess Street in Kew . Despite being called a highway, the road is still classified as
1560-636: Was the Bridge Hotel and Darebin Creek Bridge on Heidelberg Road, both commenced in the 1840s, with a new stone arch bridge erected in 1864. Alphington was named by Sir William Manning after his birthplace, Alphington in Devon , England . Alphington Post Office opened on 2 February 1858. Alphington was originally part of the Jika Jika Parish, bounded by Rathmines Street to the west, Darebin Creek to
1600-625: Was used to film the 2003 Australian movie, Take Away , featuring Vince Colosimo and Stephen Curry . In 2011, the Australian television drama The Slap , based on the novel of the same name , was filmed on location in an Alphington house. Bonds filmed their Show Your Glow ad in Parkview Road's last original house during September 2015. ^ = territory divided with another LGA ^ = territory divided with another LGA Electoral district of Kew The electoral district of Kew
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