Great Eastern Highway Bypass
Great Eastern Highway Bypass | |
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Basic data | |
Operator: | Main Roads |
Start of the street: |
/ Great Eastern Highway Ascot ( Perth ) ( WA ) ( 31 ° 55 ′ S , 115 ° 57 ′ E ) |
End of street: |
/ Roe Highway Hazelmere ( Perth ) ( WA ) ( 31 ° 55 ′ S , 116 ° 1 ′ E ) |
Overall length: | 5.5 km |
States : |
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Great Eastern Highway Bypass in Hazelmere . Looking east at Darling Scarp |
The Great Eastern Highway Bypass is a four-lane urban highway in Perth in the southwest of the Australian state of Western Australia . It connects the Great Eastern Highway in Ascot (between Perth Airport and Swan River ) with the Roe Highway in Hazelmere .
Together with the subsequent section of the Roe Highway, it forms a bypass of the historic suburbs of Guildford and Midland in northeast Perth, through which the Great Eastern Highway continues.
The Great Eastern Highway Bypass in Northam was also called the Great Eastern Highway Bypass.
history
The bypass opened on May 14, 1988 and was originally intended to be part of the planned Swan River Highway and Redcliffe-Bushmead Highway .
connections
Great Eastern Highway Bypass | |||
Eastbound exits | Distance to Hazelmere (km) |
Distance to Ascot (km) |
Exits to the west |
Start of Great Eastern Highway Bypass from Great Eastern Highway (Southwest) |
5.5 | - |
End of Great Eastern Highway Bypass further than Great Eastern Highway (southwest) |
Guildford ( Perth ), Swan Valley Great Eastern Highway (Northeast) |
5.5 | - | Guildford ( Perth ), Swan Valley Great Eastern Highway (Northeast) |
South Guildford ( Perth ), Kalamunda Kalamunda Road |
3.9 | 1.6 | Kalamunda, South Guildford ( Perth ) Kalamunda Road |
Forrestfield ( Perth ), Kewdale ( Perth ) Abernethy Road |
1.2 | 4.3 |
Perth Airport , Forrestfield ( Perth ), Kewdale ( Perth ) Abernethy Road |
Hazelmere ( Perth ), High Wycombe ( Perth ) Stirling Crescent |
0.6 | 4.9 | High Wycombe ( Perth ), Hazelmere ( Perth ) Stirling Crescent |
End of Great Eastern Highway Bypass | - | 5.5 | Beginning of the Great Eastern Highway Bypass |
Midland ( Perth ), Armadale Roe Highway (North) & (South) |
literature
Leigh Edmonds: The vital link: a history of Main Roads Western Australia 1926-1996 . University of Western Australia Press, Nedlands, Western Australia 1997, ISBN 1-875560-87-4 .
source
- Steve Parish: Australian Touring Atlas . Steve Parish Publishing. Archerfield QLD 2007, ISBN 978-1-74193-232-4 , p. 77.
Individual evidence
- ^ Western Australia. Environmental Protection Authority. Proposed bypass of Great Eastern Highway at Northam: extension of time limit: Main Roads, Western Australia: Section 46 report and recommendations of the Environmental Protection Authority. Perth, WA: The Authority, 2000. Bulletin / Environmental Protection Authority, 1030-0120; 968. ISBN 0-7309-8180-0 .
- ↑ Appendix A - Dates of major changes to the road network . Main Roads Western Australia. Archived from the original on July 1, 2007. Retrieved November 6, 2007: "Great Eastern Highway Bypass opened May 14, 1988."