Swan Street (and its western section as Olympic Boulevard) is a major street running through the Melbourne suburbs of Richmond, Cremorne and Burnley. The street was named after the White Swan Hotel, built in 1852 on the corner of Swan and Church Streets. Route Olympic Boulevard starts at the intersection with Alexandra Avenue on the southern bank of the Yarra River, heading east as a four-lane single-carriageway road and immediately crossing the river over the Swan Street Bridge, heading east through Melbourne Park and Olympic Park precinct, before meeting with Punt Road in Richmond. It changes name to Swan Street and becomes a restaurant and cafe precinct around Richmond station, including the historic Corner Hotel, followed by a retail section between Richmond and Cremorne including the Dimmey's department store, before becoming a factory seconds area towards Burnley. It continues east over the Lilydale and Belgrave railway lines, meets with Madden Grove in Burnley, before crossing the Yarra River again and ends at Wallen Road in Hawthorn on its northern bank. The road supports surface tram tracks just east of Melbourne Park all the way to Hawthorn, carrying the Route 70 service. History Swan Street was signed as Metropolitan Route 20 between Melburne and Hawthorn in 1989. Metropolitan Route 21 runs concurrent along Swan Street from Madden Grove at Burnley to Wallen Road at Hawthorn from 1965. The passing of the Road Management Act 2004 granted the responsibility of overall management and development of Victoria's major arterial roads to VicRoads: in 2004, VicRoads declared Swan Street (Arterial #5287) beginning at Yarra Bank Highway (Alexandra Avenue) in Melbourne and ending at Burnley-Kew Road (Madden Grove) in Burnley; this declaration formally includes today's Olympic Boulevard, but signposts along this section have kept its original name. The western section of the road between Alexandra Avenue and Punt Road was renamed to Olympic Boulevard in November, 2006 in tribute to the 1956 Melbourne Olympics. Swan Street Bridge The Swan Street Bridge still retains its name, despite the fact that it is no longer part of Swan Street. Construction on the bridge started on 24 September 1946, with Commissioner of Public Works Pat Kennelly driving the first pile. The Country Roads Board (later VicRoads) tendered a contract for the building of the piers as the first stage of construction; the contractor commenced operations, but difficulties regarding supplies, both of materials and labour, eventually forced them to