Port Wakefield Road
| Port Wakefield Road | |
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| Basic data | |
| Operator: | DTEI |
| Start of the street: |
 Main North Road Grand Junction Road Sturt Highway Gepps Cross ( Adelaide ) ( SA ) ( 34 ° 51 ′ S , 138 ° 36 ′ E )  |
| End of street: |
 Princes HighwayPort Wakefield ( SA ) ( 34 ° 11 ′ S , 138 ° 9 ′ E ) |
| Overall length: | 92 km |
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The Port Wakefield Road is a highway in the center of the Australian state of South Australia . It connects Grand Junction Road in the northern suburbs of Adelaide with the Princes Highway in Port Wakefield and the Yorke Peninsula . As the A1 national road, it is part of the national highway system.
course
The Main North Road (A1) in Gepps Cross , after the intersection with the Grand Junction Road (NA16), to Port Wakefield Road. As far as Port Wakefield the road has been expanded to four lanes and has bypasses of all the small towns through which it had previously passed. The old bypass of Port Wakefield is being built over with rest houses and other shops, so that the demand for a new bypass has arisen further east.
In 2011, a road upgrade including a widening of Port Wakefield Road between Salisbury Highway (A18) and Waterloo Corner Road was completed as part of the Northern Expressway project.
Important intersections
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Start on
Main North Road : 
Gepps Cross as
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Cavan Road
: Cavan
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Salisbury Highway :
Mawson Lakes - numbering changes to
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Bolivar Road
: Paralowie
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Northern Expressway 
: Waterloo Corner
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Port Wakefield-Balaklava Road 
: Port Wakefield
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Ends at the junction with the Copper Coast Highway
, continues as Princes Highway 
to Port Augusta
Settlements
Port Wakefield Road runs through the northern part of the Adelaide Plain . To the west of the road stretches the largely untouched coastal land of the upper Gulf Saint Vincent with a number of fishing villages and holiday resorts. To the east of this is rich farming land.
Cities on the road are:
- Virginia
- Two wells
- Lower Light
- Dublin
- Port Wakefield
- Windsor
source
Steve Parish: Australian Touring Atlas . Steve Parish Publishing. Archerfield QLD 2007. ISBN 978-1-74193-232-4 . Pp. 64, 65, 68
Individual evidence
- ↑ Mid North and Yorke Peninsula (PDF) In: Strategic Infrastructure Plan . Government of South Australia. April 2005. Archived from the original on May 11, 2006. Retrieved on August 3, 2006.
- ↑ AusLink Projects: Northern Expressway . In: AusLink . Government of Australia. July 14, 2006. Archived from the original on November 7, 2007. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved August 3, 2006.
