Forrest Highway
| Forrest Highway | |
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| Basic data | |
| Operator: | Main Roads |
| Start of the street: |
 Kwinana FreewayPinjarra Road east of Barragup ( WA ) ( 32 ° 34 ' S , 115 ° 49' O ) |
| End of street: |
 Old Coast Roadsouth of Lake Clifton ( WA ) ( 32 ° 53 ' S , 115 ° 43' O ) |
| Overall length: | 37.7 km |
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Map with all coordinates: The Forrest Highway is a trunk road in the southwest of the Australian state of Western Australia . It connects the Kwinana Freeway and Pinjarra Road with the Old Coast Road at Lake Clifton . In doing so, he bypasses the city of Mandurah and the Peel-Harvey Estuary to the east. The street was named after Sir John Forrest , the first Prime Minister of Western Australia. Construction began in 2007 and the highway was opened on September 20, 2009. A few smaller roads in the local government areas Murray Shire and Waroona Shire are connected to the highway , namely the Old Bunbury Road .
The highway is designed not only to reduce travel time from Perth to the south-west of the country, but also to support the growth of the port of Bunbury , the third largest in the country.
history
There used to be two road links and one rail link between Perth and the South West region . The South Western Highway (S20) opened up the farmland and woodland west of the Darling Scarp , such as Pinjarra and Harvey , while the Old Coast Road (R1) connected the coastal and fishing villages, such as Mandurah itself and south of today's city. The rapidly increasing population in the Peel and South West regions caused increasing traffic jams on both routes during the school holidays. Therefore, the new road was needed to reduce travel time and avoid traffic problems in Mandurah, Pinjarra and Waroona.
Before the construction of this road, the Kwinana Freeway ended after the expansion in 2002 at the Safety Bay Road in Baldivis , while the Old Coast Road between Bouvard and Lake Clifton is only two lanes before it becomes four lanes south of the Grove Road .
Construction began in 2006 and on September 20, 2009, the Forrest Highway, along with the final extension of the Kwinana Freeway, opened three months ahead of schedule.
course
The Forrest Highway begins at the south end of the Kwinana Freeway on Pinjarra Road with a half-leaf clover junction. It then heads south, crosses the Murray River and crosses the village of South Yanderup . On Greenlands Road it swings southwest towards the Harvey River estuary and then back south on Mills Road . Then it crosses the Spearwood dune system and meets the Old Coast Road.
Important junctions and junctions
- ( in Barragup ) Pinjarra Road to Mandurah and Ravenswood / Pinjarra.
- ( in South Yunderup ) Beacham Road to South Yunderup
- ( in West Pinjarra ) Greenlands Road to Pinjarra
- ( in Birchmont ) Old Bunbury Road / Dorsett Road to Waroona, Coolup and Lake Clifton
- ( in Lake Clifton ) Old Coast Road to Mandurah and Bunbury
Web links
source
- Steve Parish: Australian Touring Atlas . Steve Parish Publishing. Archerfield QLD 2007. ISBN 978-1-74193-232-4 . P. 78
Individual evidence
- ↑ Jill Athenour: Sir John Forrest commemorated in naming of new highway . Government of Western Australia. March 15, 2009. Archived from the original on July 27, 2011. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved March 24, 2009.
- ↑ New Perth to Bunbury Highway to open September 20 . Western Australia Department of Transportation press release, August 28, 2009
