Anzac Highway
Anzac Highway | |
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Basic data | |
Operator: | Transport SA |
Start of the street: |
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 : |
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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
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
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Start of at the junction with West Terrace and Goodwood Road : Adelaide
- Richmond Road / Greenhill Road: Keswick
- South Road : Everard Park - Head south to
- Marion Road : Plympton - Heading South to
- Cross Road : Camden Park
- Morphett Road: Glengowrie
- Tapleys Hill Road / Brighton Road : Glenelg
- End at the intersection with Colley Terrace / Chappell Drive : Glenelg
- The End
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
- ↑ 2003 Adelaide Street Directory, 41st Edition . UBD (a subsidiary of Universal Press Pty Ltd), 2003, ISBN 0-7319-1441-4 .
- ^ 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 .