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                    Road management

                    Maintenance, renewal and discontinuance of road assets are a significant part of the City of Melbourne’s community responsibilities.

                    There are over 342 kilometres of roads within the municipality of Melbourne, and well-designed roads have been a feature of the city since the first surveyor's plan by Robert Hoddle in 1837. City of Melbourne manages many assets for the community, and one of the most significant of these – in terms of difficulty and expense of management – are road assets.

                    The majority of these roads, along with associated footpath, kerb and channel, drainage, and vehicular and pedestrian bridges, are the responsibility of the City of Melbourne. We also manage road names and street numbering in the municipality.

                    The Road Management Plan identifies the responsibilities, maintenance and inspection standards required to manage its civil liability and demonstrate its good management of road assets.

                    Melbourne has a mixture of public and private laneways and this has implications for management, maintenance and planning and development applications. City of Melbourne also has the authority to discontinue (close) roads in the municipality and subsequently offer the land for sale.

                    • Bus lanes

                      Bus lanes help to improve bus travel times and the reliability of bus services in the City of Melbourne.
                    • Laneway care and management

                      Melbourne’s mixture of public and private laneways has implications for road maintenance as well as planning and development applications.
                    • Road discontinuance

                      City of Melbourne has the authority to approve the closure (discontinuance) of roads in the municipality and the subsequent sale of the land.
                    • Road maintenance

                      ​We clean streets regularly and are responsible for installing, repairing and maintaining street and road infrastructure in the municipality.
                    • Road Management Plan

                      The Victorian Government's Road Management Act provides for each road authority throughout the state to prepare a Road Management Plan.
                    • Road names and street numbers

                      City of Melbourne is responsible for creating or changing the names of roads and streets, and for allocating numbers to properties within the municipality.
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