Kwinana Freeway
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| Basic data | |
| Operator: | Main Roads |
| Start of the street: |
 Mitchell Freeway Stirling Highway Perth City Center( WA ) ( 31 ° 58 ′ S , 115 ° 51 ′ E ) |
| End of street: |
Forrest Highway Pinjarra Road east of Barragup ( WA ) ( 32 ° 34 ' S , 115 ° 49' O ) |
| Overall length: | 78 km |
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Map with all coordinates: The Kwinana Freeway is an urban highway in the southwest of the Australian state of Western Australia . It connects the Mitchell Freeway in Perth city center with the Pinjarra Road between the cities of Mandurah and Pinjarra and the Forrest Highway .
In Perth city center, the speed limit is 80 km / h. Then it increases to 100 km / h and on Lakes Road to 110 km / h. As on all freeways in Western Australia, the minimum speed is 20 km / h below the maximum speed limit, as far as the road conditions allow. The Kwinana Freeway forms the middle section of State Road 2 (S2), with the northern part of the Mitchell Freeway and the southern part of the Forrest Highway. On a 4 km long stretch between Canning Highway (S6) and Leach Highway (S7), the highway is also called Route 1 (R1).
On the Kwinana Freeway, the different directions of travel are continuously separated by a median. There are 5 lanes in each direction from the start of the north freeway to Mill Point Road and then 3–4 lanes to the Leach Highway. To the south of this there are 2 lanes each, whereby the underpasses and bridges are already designed for later widening. The Kwinana Freeway forms the border of many neighborhoods in the south of Perth. Between the city center of Perth and the suburb of Mandogalup , the railway line to Mandurah runs on the central reservation of the motorway. In Mandogalup the railway line turns west to Rockingham Harbor .
history
The first section of what is now the Kwinana Freeway was completed in 1959. It ran as a motorway over the new Narrows Bridge to the Canning Highway and the speed limit was 50 mph (80 km / h). In the 1970s, this section was expanded to the freeway standard. The Judd Street Bridge opened in 1976 and the freeway connection to the Canning Highway followed in 1979.
Between 1979 and 1982 a 7 km extension was built to the south over the Leach Highway to South Street (S13). This section also includes the Mount Henry Bridge over the Canning River , which is the longest road bridge in Western Australia at 660 m. The third construction phase, which opened in 1991, was an extension to the south by a further 9 km to Forrest Road (today: Armadale Road / Beeliar Drive ).
The fourth construction phase - opened in 1994 - brought the freeway closer to Rockingham and opened up the local government area Cockburn City, which was not yet developed at the time . This new extension was not built to the freeway standard, but was still called the 'Kwinana Freeway'. This happened because of a lack of money: one could not afford to build the 5 necessary overpasses. There were traffic lights south of Farrington Road (complete with "End of Freeway" and "Beginning of Freeway" signs at each intersection).
A fifth construction phase was completed in 2002 and included:
- a 12 km stretch of road to Safety Bay Road south of Rockingham
- the conversion of the five traffic light crossings from the previous section into height-free connections
- the Kwinana Freeway Bus Transitway , consisting of:
- a two-lane bus route between the Esplanade Busport (Perth bus station) and the Canning Highway
- a bus lane north between Canning Highway and Murdoch Park 'n' Ride and
- the Canning Bridge Transfer Station , a transfer point between the bus routes on the Kwinana Freeway and the Canning Highway.
On the afternoon of May 13, 2005, a water pipe broke near the driveway on Mill Point Road heading south into South Perth . This caused extensive flooding of the entire area, undermined the lanes of the freeway heading south and caused the freeway driveway to collapse. The resulting traffic jams throughout the city and its surroundings dragged on into the night. On average, the drive from Mill Point Road to Canning Highway along the parallel Labouchere Road takes over 2 hours.
In mid-2006, the bus transitway was closed to allow the construction of the railway line to Mandurah, which was completed in 2007. After the railway operations began, most of the bus routes on the freeway were closed; but one kept bus lanes with entrances and exits for the remaining lines between the city center and Canning Highway.
Construction of a 32 km continuation south to Pinjarra Road and the Murray River in South Yanderup was completed in 2009. The Forrest Highway south of the Pinjarra Road, a 38 km long highway, which was previously called the Peel Deviation , was also built during this time. The Forrest Highway directs traffic in the east around the Peel-Harvey Estuary to the long-standing connection to the highway section of the Old Coast Road (R1) at Lake Clifton . The highway was built with the intention of bringing it to freeway standard later. The combined freeway-highway project was initially called New Perth Bunbury Highway until the individual streets were given their final names.
The freeway and highway are designed to route long-distance traffic around Mandurah, reducing traffic in the city and reducing travel time from Perth to Bunbury, especially during the holiday season when families head to the southwest of the state. The extension of the Kwinana Freeway and Forrest Highway opened on September 20, 2009.
Further expansion
Work on widening the Kwinana Highway between Leach Highway (S7) and Roe Highway (S3) from two to three lanes in each direction began in early April 2011 and was originally supposed to be completed in December 2012. The AU $ 58 million project aims to reduce the increasing traffic congestion in this area. The completion took place in May 2013, the final landscape maintenance work was carried out until September 2013.
A south-facing driveway is to be built on Manning Road (S26), but funding for the project is currently lacking and two apartment blocks would have to be demolished.
Exits and crossings
The Kwinana Freeway begins in the north at the Narrows intersection with the Mitchell Highway. The intersection is at the north end of the Narrows Bridge . A 20 miles extension of the freeway south, which opened in September 2009, leads to the south end of the freeway on Pinjarra Road east of Mandurah.
| Local Government Area | Places) | km | direction | Remarks |
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| Perth | Perth | 1.8 |
Mitchell Freeway northbound - Stirling, Joondalup
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Start of the Kwinana Freeway |
 Narrows Bridge
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| South Perth | South Perth | 2.2 | Mill Point Road - South Perth | Exit only to the north |
| 2.8 | Mill Point Road via Judd Street - South Perth | Exit towards the north and entry / exit towards the south | ||
| Como | 4.6 | South Terrace | Exit only to the south | |
| 7.1 |
  Canning Highway - Victoria Park, Fremantle
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Start concurrency with . Connects to the freeway and Manning Road. Canning Bridge train station is located here.
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| 7.5 |
 Manning Road - Manning, Curtin University , Cannington
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Entrance to the north and exit to the south. Connects Freeway and Canning Highway. | ||
| 10 |
Mount Henry Bridge
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Longest bridge in Western Australia | ||
| Melville | Mount Pleasant, Brentwood | 10.8 | Cranford Avenue | Entrance only to the south, exit only to the north |
| Brentwood, Bull Creek, Bateman | 11.5 |
 Leach Highway - Booragoon, Fremantle , Riverton, Kewdale
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End . Bull Creek Station is here.
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| Bateman, Bull Creek, Leeming, Murdoch | 13.6 |
 South Street - Fremantle , Kardinya, Murdoch University , Willetton, Canning Vale
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Murdoch train station is here. | |
| Murdoch, Leeming | 15th |
Farrington Road - Leeming, North Lake
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Entrance only to the north and exit only to the south | |
| Cockburn | North Lake, Leeming, Jandakot, Bibra Lake | 16 |
 Roe Highway - Canning Vale, Forrestfield, Midland
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Autobahn triangle |
| South Lake, Jandakot, Cockburn Central | 18.5 |
Berrigan Drive - South Lake, Jandakot
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| Cockburn Central, Jandakot, Atwell, Success | 20.6 |
 Armadale Road - Harrisdale, Armadale Beeliar Drive - Yangebup, Beeliar
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Cockburn Central Station is here. | |
| Success, Atwell, Aubin Grove, Hammond Park | 24 |
Russell Road - Henderson Gibbs Road - Banjup |
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| Kwinana | Hammond Park, Aubin Grove, Wandi, Mandogalup | 26.6 | Rowley Road - Wattleup, Brookdale | |
| Mandogalup, Wandi, Anketell, The Spectacles | 29.9 | Anketell Road - Kwinana Beach, Oakford | ||
| The Spectacles, Anketell, Casuarina, Bertram | 32.3 |
 Thomas Road - Kwinana, Byford
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The railway line to Mandurah passes under the left lanes of the freeway about 850 m north of the connection. Kwinana train station is 850 m west of the connection. | |
| Bertram, Casuarina, Wellard | 35 | Mortimer Road - Kwinana (via Bertram Road ), Wellard | ||
| Rockingham | Baldivis | 39.7 |
 Mundijong Road - Baldivis, Rockingham (via Kerosene Lane ), Mundijong
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| 43.6 |
 Safety Bay Road - Baldivis, Rockingham Folly Road |
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| 48.8 | Karnup Road - Port Kennedy, Serpentine | |||
| Karnup | 56.2 |
Paganoni Road - Karnup, Golden Bay Vine Road |
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| Murray | Stake Hill | |||
| 61.2 |
 Mandjoogoordap Drive - Mandurah Lymon Road - Stake Hill |
Main connection to Mandurah | ||
| 65.0 |
Bridge over the Serpentine River Waangaamaap Bilya |
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| 65.7 | Lakes Road - Greenfields, North Dandalup | |||
| Nambeelup | 68.2 |
Nambeelup Brook Ngaa-bilyaap Bilya |
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| Ravenswood | 73.3 | Pinjarra Road - Pinjarra, Mandurah | Half-leaf clover connection | |
| 73.5 |
Windich Bridge Bilya Maadjit |
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Forrest Highway - Waroona, Australind, Bunbury
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End of Kwinana Freeway |
Web links
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- Streetsmart (various editions) - Perth Street Directory (publisher - Western Australian Land Information Authority or "Landgate")
- 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 .
- Steve Parish: Australian Touring Atlas . Steve Parish Publishing. Archerfield QLD 2007. ISBN 978-1-74193-232-4 . P. 77
Individual evidence
- ↑ Kwinana Freeway Widening - Leach Highway to Roe Highway ( Memento of 21 October 2013 Internet Archive )