Elgar Road and Riversdale Road, Burwood Intersection upgrade
The Department of Transport and Planning invested $674,000 to upgrade the intersection of Elgar Road and Riversdale Road in Burwood to support bus route improvements between Box Hill and Deakin University.
Complete
Update - September 2023
We have completed upgrade works on the Elgar Road and Riversdale Road intersection in Burwood.
About the project
The Victorian Government is improving bus connection in Melbourne’s inner east to better connect the community with education, jobs, shops, and train services.
The Elgar Road and Riversdale Road intersection in Burwood needed to be upgraded to allow buses to turn right safely onto Elgar Road as part of planned bus route improvements to provide better connections around Deakin University’s Burwood campus.
The upgrades will also improve road safety by reducing the likelihood of side swipe crashes occurring when a bus and a car turns right at the same time.
This project was part of the $109 million investment through the Victorian Budget 2022-23 to improve bus services across the state.
As part of these upgrades, we:
- modified the median islands on Elgar Road and Riversdale Road intersection and Park Road and Elgar Road to widen the right turning lane for buses
- relocated and installed drainage, traffic signals and lighting
- resurfaced the road and painted new line markings
- installed tactile ground surface indicators on the pedestrian safety platforms to improve accessibility.
Get in touch
For more information, please call the VicRoads Call Centre on 13 11 71 (TTY 13 36 77, Speak and Listen 1300 555 727) or email the project team at [email protected].
For information in your language, call the VicRoads multilingual information line on (03) 9280 0783.