The State Highway, also known as Route 40 or the Bell / Springvale State Highway, is the longest urban highway in Melbourne, Australia linking Tullamarine Freeway and the Nepean Highway. It is classed as an arterial road, and allocated State Route 40. Various street names are used along the highway – Banksia Street, Bell-Banksia Link, Bell Street, Manningham Road, and Springvale Road.The highway experiences considerable congestion. Throughout the 1980s and '90s, the Doncaster Road section carried around 50,000 vehicles per hour at peak, but this number dropped in 1997 after the extension of the Eastern Freeway. Several level crossings are located along the highway, in Edithvale, Preston and Coburg. With the completion of works in January 2010 to lower the rail line in Nunawading, plus an older one in Heidelberg, there are now two railway grade separations along the route. As of May 2014, a level crossing at Springvale has also been removed.The road itself varies in capacity over its length between three-laned dual carriageways and two-way single carriageways. Many junctions such as the Nepean Highway, Princes Highway, Monash Freeway, Eastern Freeway, Hume Highway and Tullamarine Freeway contribute to large traffic volumes along Route 40.
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