Anzac Highway

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Anzac Highway
Australian Alphanumeric State Route A5.svg
Basic data
Operator: Transport SA
Start of the street: AA21 West Terrace / Goodwood Road
Adelaide ( SA )
( 34 ° 56 ′  S , 138 ° 35 ′  E )
End of street: Colley Terrace / Chappell Drive
Glenelg ( SA )
( 34 ° 59 ′  S , 138 ° 31 ′  E )
Overall length: 11 km

States :

South Australia

Anzac Highway SW near Morphett.jpg
View from the Anzac Highway in southwest direction to the junction with Morphett Road

The Anzac Highway is a main thoroughfare in the southwest of the city of Adelaide in the center of the Australian state of South Australia . It connects the coastal suburb of Glenelg with the city center.

The road formerly known as Bay Road was named in honor of the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC) that fought in Europe during World War I. Initially the street was called Adelaide Road , as it was the road link from the governor's first landing site to the proposed location of the capital Adelaide to be founded.

Bus routes 262, 263 and 265 run every 15 minutes on the highway.

Junction with South Road

View towards the city center at the intersection with South Road in 2008. The intersection has meanwhile been replaced by an underpass.

The intersection with the South Road (A13) was fundamentally redesigned as part of an initiative by the state government to convert the South Road into an intersection-free north-south connection.

The South Road was passed under the Anzac Highway and connected with entrances and exits to the Anzac Highway. Construction began in October 2007, the underpass was finished in March 2009 and work was completed by the end of 2009.

In keeping with the name “Anzac Highway”, the underpass was named Gallipoli Underpass and memorabilia of the Australian soldiers who fought in World War I were placed at all entrances and exits.

Important intersections

  • Start of Australian Alphanumeric State Route A5.svgat the junction with West Terrace Australian Alphanumeric State Route A21.pngand Goodwood RoadAustralian Alphanumeric State Route A21.png : Adelaide
    • Controlled Intersection Richmond Road / Greenhill Road: Keswick
    • Controlled Intersection South Road Australian Alphanumeric State Route A13.svg : Everard Park - Head south toAustralian Alphanumeric State Route M2.PNG
    • Controlled Intersection Marion Road Australian Alphanumeric State Route A14.svg: Plympton - Heading South toAustralian Alphanumeric State Route M2.PNG
    • Controlled Intersection Cross Road Australian Alphanumeric State Route A3.svg: Camden Park
    • Controlled Intersection Morphett Road: Glengowrie
    • Controlled Intersection Tapleys Hill Road / Brighton Road Australian Alphanumeric State Route A15.svg: Glenelg
    • Roundabout End at the intersection with Colley Terrace / Chappell Drive : Glenelg
  • The End Australian Alphanumeric State Route A5.svg

In pop culture

The Anzac Highway is mentioned in the song One More Boring Thursday Night in Adelaide by the band Redgum on their 1978 album If You Don't Fight You Lose .

source

Steve Parish: Australian Touring Atlas . Steve Parish Publishing. Archerfield QLD 2007. ISBN 978-1-74193-232-4 . P. 64

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 2003 Adelaide Street Directory, 41st Edition . UBD (a subsidiary of Universal Press Pty Ltd), 2003, ISBN 0-7319-1441-4 .
  2. ^ Dulcie M. Perry: The Place of Waters, A story of Glenelg's first fifty years . The Corporation of the City of Glenelg, National Trust of South Australia, Glenelg (South Australia) 1985, ISBN 0-9589503-0-X .