Roe Highway

Roe Highway
Basic data
Operator:	Main Roads
Start of the street:	/ Great Northern Highway Reid Highway north of Middle Swan ( Perth ) ( WA ) ( 31 ° 52 ′  S , 116 ° 1 ′  E )
End of street:	Kwinana Freeway Bibra Lake ( Perth ) ( WA ) ( 32 ° 5 ′  S , 115 ° 51 ′  E )
Overall length:	35 km
States :	Western Australia
Roe Highway at the Nicholson Road exit

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The Roe Highway is an urban highway in Perth in the southwest of the Australian state of Western Australia . It connects the Great Northern Highway north of the northeastern suburb of Middle Swan with the Kwinana Freeway in the southwestern suburb of Bibra Lake . Together with the Reid Highway at the north end to the west , it forms the outer ring road around Perth.

This urban highway is one of the most important routes for heavy traffic in Perth. With the exception of some intersections, the speed limit is 100 km / h. Between the Kwinana Freeway and the Tonkin Highway , the road is developed as a freeway with no elevation connections. There are a few traffic lights on the rest of the route.

numbering

The entire length of the Roe Highway is designated State Road 3 (S3). Between the connections of the Great Eastern Highway Bypass (N94) and the Great Eastern Highway (N94 / R1) it is also called National Road 94 (N94). Between the connections of the Great Eastern Highway (N94 / R1) and the Great Northern Highway (N95 / R1) it also bears the designation National Road 95 (N95).

history

The Roe Highway was proposed by Gordon Stevenson as part of the Metropolitan Region Planning Scheme back in 1955 . It was named after John Septimus Roe , the first chief land surveyor of Western Australia.

Work began in 1981 and the first section between Beechboro-Gosnells Highway and Bushmead Road opened in 1983. The next section - from Bushmead Road to the Great Eastern Highway was completed in 1984. The third section between the Great Eastern Highway and Great Northern Highway was opened in 1988 along with the Great Eastern Highway Bypass.

In 1994 the highway in the south was extended by 2 km from the Tonkin Highway to Welshpool Road . After a seven-year hiatus, there was another 4 km extension in the southwest from Welshpool Road to Kenwick Link (a 1998 bypass of the Albany Highway ). This section has been referred to as 'Level 4'. Work on the 3 km section of Stage 5 began at the same time as Stage 4 and resulted in the extension of the Roe Highway to Nicholson Road in 2002.

Stage 6, a 3 mile extension from Nicholson Road to South Street , was inaugurated in 2004 and Stage 7 announced shortly afterwards. The 5 km stretch from South Street to the Kwinana Freeway (Stage 7) was completed in 2006. With that the highway was done.

The 19 km long route, which has been built between the Tonkin Highway and the Kwinana Freeway since 1994, has the standard of a freeway. Maybe later it will be shown as a freeway.

In June 2012, the new height-free intersection with the Great Eastern Highway was opened and now enables an unhindered flow of traffic on the Roe Highway over the Great Eastern Highway. The intersection also includes a north-east access ramp for heavy vehicles, as well as three pedestrian underpasses.

Level 8 / Fremantle Eastern Bypass

In the 1950s, Stephenson planned to continue the Roe Highway westward from the Kwinana Freeway towards Fremantle , through South Fremantle along Marine Terrace, and then north to join the Stirling Highway and the port. As part of this plan, the Stirling Highway was extended in 1974 from its then terminus north of the Swan River to the connection with the Canning Highway .

A narrow 4 km strip south of this intersection was reserved for a later road, but as this was not part of the original Stephenson plan, this area was previously occupied by residential developments. Over a period of almost 20 years, Main Roads Western Australia acquired most of the land needed for the future road. In 1985 the first kilometer of this road was built and connected the Stirling Highway over the Canning Highway to the Leach Highway (west of Carrington Street this street is called High Street ). The remaining 3 km of land south of it were then given the name Fremantle Eastern Bypass .

At the southern end of the planned Fremantle Eastern Bypass , an 8 km long strip of land in an east-west direction was reserved for road construction. This was known as 'Roe Highway Section 8'. Most of it remained urban bushland throughout the late 20th century. This section was to be the last piece of a large ring road around Perth, as originally planned by Stephenson.

However, there were problems with the planned connection, due to changes in government plans since Stephenson's time. These included a. the abandonment of a road through Fremantle to be replaced by the Fremantle Eastern Bypass . Some Fremantle residents fiercely opposed the proposed four-lane road. They argued that the new road would split the whole area, destroy urban woodland and seriously disrupt three nearby schools. The planned 'Roe Highway Section 8' would also cut through the area between North Lake and Bibra Lake , an environmentally important wetland . The '' Environmental Protection Authority '' wrote in their report on the planned expressway that it would have a significant, negative impact on the Beeliar Wetlands, which are classified as very worthy of protection .

The new state government, which came to power in 2001, dropped plans for the Fremantle Eastern Bypass and Roe Highway Section 8 and promised to sell the land reserved for the Fremantle Eastern Bypass. When it did, the government came up with a 6-point plan to accommodate the increasing heavy traffic to and from the port of Fremantle. The railroad should be better used for these transport tasks and the trucks should be used more effectively. In addition, a deep-water container port was to be built near Rockingham . As promised, the land reserved for the Fremantle Eastern Bypass was sold for AU $ 17 million. This money was invested in a new, height-free intersection between Leach Highway and Orrong Street in Welshpool .

During the discussion about the abandonment of the road construction plans and the planned land sale, the residents of the Local Government Area City of Melville also got involved , as the two roads would have diverted much of the heavy traffic from the Leach Highway. Although classified as an expressway, it runs through some residential suburbs of Perth.

As part of the financing agreement for Sections 6 and 7 of the Roe Highway, the government of Western Australia, which bore part of the cost, stipulated that the land reservation for Section 8 would be retained.

After another change of government in September 2008, planning work began for an expansion of the Roe Highway beyond the Kwinana Freeway to Stock Road . The parliamentary debate continued in 2012 because the state government intends to put the plans into practice.

The further expansion of the project ( Roe 8 ) has been stopped since May 22, 2017 . This happened due to the elections in March 2017. Preparatory work for reactivating the former Roe 8 is still ongoing.

Exits and crossings

Most of the connections on the Roe Highway have no elevation.

Roe Highway
Exits to the southwest	Distance to Bibra Lake (km)	Distance to Middle Swan (km)	Northeast exits
Beginning of the Roe Highway from the Reid Highway	34.8	-	End of Roe Highway further than Reid Highway
Middle Swan Great Northern Highway (South) & (North)	34.8	-	Middle Swan Great Northern Highway (South) & (North)
Middle Swan, Stratton Toodyay Road	33.4	1.4	Middle Swan, Stratton Toodyay Road
Midvale Morrison Road	31.4	3.4	Midvale Morrison Road
End of the intersection with the N95	30.5	4.3	Start of the intersection with the N95
Midvale Great Eastern Highway (East) & (West)			Midvale Great Eastern Highway (East) & (West)
Start of the intersection with the N94			End of the intersection with the N94
no exit	29.7	5.1	Bellevue Clayton Street
End of the intersection with the N94	27.7	7.1	Start of the intersection with the N94
Hazelmere Great Eastern Highway Bypass			Hazelmere Great Eastern Highway Bypass
High Wycombe, Maida Vale Kalamunda Road	24.9	9.9	High Wycombe, Maida Vale Kalamunda Road
no exit	23.6	11.2	High Wycombe, Maida Vale Maida Vale Road
Forrestfield Berkshire Road (West)	21.2	13.6	Forrestfield Berkshire Road (West)
Forrestfield Berkshire Road (East)			Forrestfield Berkshire Road (East)
Kewdale, Forrestfield, Wattle Grove Tonkin Highway (South)	18.8	16.0	Kewdale, Forrestfield, Wattle Grove Tonkin Highway (South)
Kewdale, Forrestfield, Wattle Grove Tonkin Highway (north)	18.6	16.2	Kewdale, Forrestfield, Wattle Grove Tonkin Highway (north)
no exit	18.0	16.8	Kewdale Chrisholm Crescent
East Cannington, Welshpool Orrong Road / Welshpool Road East	16.7	18.1	East Cannington, Welshpool Orrong Road / Welshpool Road East
Beckenham Kenwick Link	12.5	22.3	Beckenham Kenwick Link
CANNING RIVER	11.9	22.9	CANNING RIVER
Lynwood, Langford, Thornlie, Canning Vale Nicholson Road	9.2	25.6	Lynwood, Langford, Thornlie, Canning Vale Nicholson Road
Lynwood, Willetton Willeri Drive	6.6	28.2	Lynwood, Willetton Willeri Drive
Leeming South Street	4.6	30.2	Leeming South Street
Jandakot Karel Avenue	1.5	33.3	Jandakot Karel Avenue
End of Roe Highway further than Kwinana Freeway	-	34.8	Beginning of the Roe Highway from the Kwinana Freeway

literature

• Hepburn, JA & Stephenson, G. 1955, Plan for the metropolitan region, Perth and Fremantle, Western Australia, 1955: a report prepared for the Government of Western Australia , Government Printing Office, Perth.
• 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 .
• Main Roads WA
• Locate . Department of Land Information, Western Australia (enter Roe Hwy at the top right)

source

Steve Parish: Australian Touring Atlas . Steve Parish Publishing. Archerfield QLD 2007. ISBN 978-1-74193-232-4 . P. 77

Individual evidence

1. ^ Roe / Great Eastern interchange improves safety, traffic flow and transport efficiency . In: Ministerial Media Statements . Government of Western Australia. Retrieved June 11, 2012.
2. ↑ Roe Highway Extention - Kwinana Freeway to Stock Road . Main Roads Western Australia ( Memento from March 31, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) []
3. ↑ Highway Extension (Roe 8)  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed on May 22, 2017