Grand Junction Road

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Grand Junction Road
Australian National Route A16.svg Australian Alphanumeric State Route A16.svg
map
Outline map of Grand Junction Road
Basic data
Operator: Transport SA
Start of the street: AA11 Lower North East Road
Vista ( Adelaide ) ( SA )
( 34 ° 50 ′  S , 138 ° 43 ′  E )
End of street: AA16 Bower Road
Queenstown ( Adelaide ) ( SA )
( 34 ° 51 ′  S , 138 ° 31 ′  E )
Overall length: 21 km

States :

South Australia

Grand junction road, adelaide.jpg
View from Rosewater down Grand Junction Road towards the Adelaide Hills
The bridge over the Adelaide – Outer Harbor railway line in Alberton

The Grand Junction Road is a main road in the northern Australian city of Adelaide in South Australia . This longest east-west link in the Adelaide area is 9 km north of the city center.

course

It runs from Port Adelaide to the east as a four-lane road (from Tolley Road in Hope Valley only two-lane) 21 km to the foot of the Adelaide Hills . Its western end is at the junction with Old Port Road , 300 m east of a dam that separates the Port River from West Lakes . The 2.4 km long stretch of road west of Old Port Road to Semaphore is called Bower Road . The east end of Grand Junction Road is in the Hope Valley suburb at the intersection of Hancock Road and Lower North East Road , just before the latter continues into the Adelaide Hills via Anstey Hill Recreation Park to Houghton and Inglewood .

history

The street was originally called Junction Road , but got its current name after a small settlement with a school and inn, which was called The Grand Junction since at least 1850 . The settlement was at the junction of the roads to Adelaide, Port Adelaide and the cities in the north of the Adelaide Plain.

Important intersections

There are a number of important junctions along Grand Junction Road. The largest of these is the original Grand Junction in Gepps , where Main North Road (A1 / A20) and Port Wakefield Road (A1) meet. Main North Road comes from the south and heads northeast towards Parafield, Elizabeth and Gawler , while Port Wakefield Road begins at this junction and heads north across the Northern Adelaide Plain to Port Wakefield .

  • Start ofAustralian Alphanumeric State Route A16.svg at the junction with Lower North East RoadAustralian Alphanumeric State Route A11.png : Vista
    • Controlled Intersection North East Road Australian Alphanumeric State Route A10.svg: Holden Hill
    • Controlled Intersection Hampstead Road Australian National Route A17.svg / Briens Road: Northfield - street numbering changes toAustralian National Route A16.svg
    • Controlled Intersection Port Wakefield Road Australian Alphanumeric State Route A1.svg / Main North Road  : Australian Alphanumeric State Route A1.svg Australian Alphanumeric State Route A52.png Gepps Cross
    • Controlled Intersection Cavan Road Australian Alphanumeric State Route A22.svg: Kilburn
    • Controlled Intersection South Road : Australian National Route A13.svg Australian Alphanumeric State Route A13.svg Regency Park - street numbering changes toAustralian Alphanumeric State Route A16.svg
    • Controlled Intersection Hanson Road: Mansfield Park - North toAustralian Alphanumeric State Route A9.svg
    • Controlled Intersection Port Road Australian Alphanumeric State Route A7.svg: Alberton
    • Controlled Intersection Ends at the junction with Old Port Road : Queenstown
  • Australian Alphanumeric State Route A16.svgfurther than Bower Road .

The road officially belongs to the National Highway System, therefore has a corresponding road sign and is maintained by the federal government. The National Highway leads south from Port Augusta , at the junction of Salisbury Highway / South Road, along Grand Junction Road via Gepps (where it joins the Main North Road on another National Highway (A20) heading northeast Sydney leads, meets) to the junction with Hampstead Road a few kilometers further, where it turns south, towards Melbourne . From there, Grand Junction Road continues without a national road sign.

Level crossings

The construction of the railway system in the Adelaide area north of the city center leads to some former and still operational junctions of the Grand Junction Road with railway lines. These are:

  • The bridge over the Adelaide – Outer Harbor line in Alberton
  • A level crossing on the Adelaide – Dry Creek line in Rosewater
  • A former level crossing on Glenroy Street and Eastern Parade in Pennington and Ottoway (on the former Finsbury Railway Line)
  • The bridge over the Adelaide – Gawler line and the ARTC main line to Port Augusta in Kilburn and Wingfield
  • The O-Bahn underpass at Holden Hill

Educational institutions

A number of schools and other educational institutions are right on Grand Junction Road:

  • Enfield High School in Enfield
  • Gepps Cross Girls School in Gepps
  • St. Paul's College in Gilles Plains
  • Tauondi College in Port Adelaide , across from Alberton
  • Torrens Valley Christian School in Hope Valley

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 Division of Universal Press Pty Ltd), 2003, ISBN 0-7319-1441-4 .
  2. ↑ H. John Lewis: ENFIELD THE NORTHERN VILLAGES and . The corporation of the City of Enfield , South Australia 1985, ISBN 0-85864-090-2 , p. 157.