Counterintuitively, the road provides a higher-capacity alternative for the northernmost section of Albany Highway due to the latter forming the high street of the busy inner south-eastern suburb of Victoria Park.

Shepperton Road was noted as running parallel to the then-named Albany Road between Harvey Street, 45 chains (3,000 ft; 910 m) from The Causeway, and Somerset Street, one and a half miles (2.4 km) further along.

[3] Buses were rerouted onto Shepperton Road in 1946,[4] by which time it had become the preferred route for motorists.

Continues as The Causeway northwest (State Route 5) Canning Highway northeast bound to Shepperton Road is at-grade.

No access from Shepperton Road to Great Eastern Highway northeast bound