Tonkin Highway
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| Operator: | Main Roads |
| Start of the street: |
 Reid HighwayMalaga ( Perth ) ( WA ) ( 31 ° 52 ′ S , 115 ° 55 ′ E ) |
| End of street: |
 Thomas RoadOakford, Perth ( WA ) ( 32 ° 12 ′ S , 115 ° 58 ′ E ) |
| Overall length: | 45 km |
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Map with all coordinates: The Tonkin Highway is an urban highway in the eastern suburbs of Perth in the southeast of the Australian state of Western Australia . It connects the Reid Highway in Malaga with Thomas Road in Oakford . The partially four-lane road is called State Road 4 (S4).
Most of the road has four lanes, but there are also six lanes on some sections of the road. The speed limits vary between 80 km / h and 100 km / h and the road mostly meets the freeway standard ( height-free connections).
The highway passes Perth Airport on its southwest side and, together with the Reid Highway, the Great Eastern Highway , the Leach Highway and the Roe Highway, allows access to it from various directions. It is also an important heavy haul route as it connects the northeast and southeast suburbs of Perth with Welshpool , one of the city's major industrial areas.
history
In 1955, Gordon Stephenson and Alastair Hepburn first proposed a highway on a similar route to the state government as part of a network of major arteries as part of an overall plan for the greater Perth area. The land required for this was reserved in the Metropolitan Region Scheme in 1963 .
Like most major roads in Perth, the Tonkin Highway was built in various stages. It was initially called Beechboro-Gosnells Highway because it was supposed to connect these two suburbs. The first section from Welshpool Road to Hardey Road was opened in 1980, the second section from Welshpool Road to Albany Highway (S30) followed in 1981. Construction phase three was north of the Swan River , connected Railway Parade with Morley Drive and was completed in 1984 . In construction phase four, the Great Eastern Highway (N94 / R1) was connected to Hardey Road and included the construction of four bridges over the railway line to the railway repair facility in Forrestfield , the first bridges in Australia to be built using the step-by-step construction method. When the fourth construction phase was opened in 1985, the Beechboro-Gosnells Highway was renamed in honor of the former Prime Minister of West Australia, John Tonkin .
In 1988 the northern and southern sections of the route were connected with the opening of the Redcliffe Bridge over the Swan River. After a few shorter extensions to the north, the Tonkin Highway remained unchanged for over a decade, connecting the Reid Highway in Malaga with the Albany Highway in Gosnells. Then, in 2003, an extension to the south to Thomas Road (S21) began and it opened on December 16, 2005. The new connection improved the accessibility of Kwinana , Armadale , Rockingham and Byford . It also created a new, important route for heavy traffic, thereby relieving the Nicholson Road, Albany Highway and the South Western Highway (S20).
In April 2012 the connection to Dunreath Drive was opened. This traffic light junction provides the connection to the international terminal of the airport, bypassing the interchanges of the Tonkin Highway with the Leach Highway and Kewdale Road / Miller Drive .
Further expansion
New route sections according to the freeway standard
In 2009, Westralia Airports Corporation (WAC) and Main Roads Western Australia (MRWA) together with Infrastructure Australia (IA) announced an AU $ 584 million upgrade of the Tonkin Highway and its connections to partial freeway standards. This includes a six-lane upgrade, traffic light-free connections to Horrie Miller Drive and Kewdale Road on the highway , a height-free upgrade to the connection to Bond Avenue , a partial clover leaf on the Leach Highway and an improved partial clover leaf on the Roe Highway. The upgrade will raise another 13 km of highway between Collier Road in the north and Hale Road in the south to freeway standard.
Extensions
At its southern end, the Tonkin Highway leads over the greater Perth area. If necessary, plans provide for a further extension to the south. The plans currently include underdeveloped and semi-rural communities such as Mundijong, Cardup and Jarrahdale . South of Mundijong, the route is to lead east and end on the South Western Highway, near Jarrahdale Road .
There is also planning for an extension to the north. They would lead the highway to Beach Road / Marshall Road , where it would join the also planned extension of Hepburn Avenue . If Hepburn Avenue were also upgraded to the level of a motor vehicle, it could serve to develop new urban areas in Darch, Landsdale and Madeley . However, this extension is in a very early planning stage and execution is by no means certain or even timed.
Crossings and exits
Most of the connections to the highway are level crossings with traffic lights. Exceptions are the Guildford Road and the Albany Highway, which have elevation-free connections. The Great Eastern Highway and Brearley Avenue are connected with a partial cloverleaf, the Abernethy Road with only one exit to the north to McDowell Street . The Roe Highway and Dorfield Street have no elevation and the Champion Drive and Forrest Road are easy junctions.
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Tonkin Highway
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| Exit to the south | Distance from Oakford (km) |
Distance from Malaga (km) |
North exits |
Start of Tonkin Highway from Reid Highway (West)
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44.1 | - |
End of Tonkin Highway further than Reid Highway (West)
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| Malaga, Noranda, Beechboro Reid Highway (East) .svg){kind=small} 
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44.1 | - | |
| Malaga, Noranda, Beechboro Reid Highway (East) .svg){kind=small}
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| Noranda, Morley Benara Road 
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43.2 | 0.9 | Noranda, Morley Benara Road
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| Morley Morley Drive / Morley Drive East 
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41.7 | 2.4 | Morley Morley Drive / Morley Drive East
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| Bayswater Collier Road
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39.7 | 4.4 | Bayswater Collier Road
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| Bayswater Guildford Road 
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38.0 | 6.1 | Bayswater Guildford Road
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| SWAN RIVER | 36.5 | 7.6 | SWAN RIVER |
| Ascot, Redcliffe Great Eastern Highway & Brearley Avenue  
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36.1 | 8.0 | Ascot, Redcliffe Great Eastern Highway
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 Perth Airport , Cloverdale Dunreath Drive
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32.8 | - | no exit |
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Perth Airport , Cloverdale, Kewdale Leach Highway 
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31.6 | 12.5 |
Perth Airport , Cloverdale, Kewdale Leach Highway
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Perth Airport , Kewdale Kewdale Road / Horrie Miller Drive
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30.3 | 13.8 |
Perth Airport , Kewdale Kewdale Road / Horrie Miller Drive
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| no exit | - | 15.2 |
Perth Airport , Kewdale McDowell Street (to Abernethy Road  )
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| Kewdale, Forrestfield, Wattle Grove Roe Highway
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28.0 | 16.1 | Kewdale, Forrestfield, Wattle Grove Roe Highway
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| Forrestfield, Wattle Grove Hale Road
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26.8 | 17.3 | Forrestfield, Wattle Grove Hale Road
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| Wattle Grove Welshpool Road East 
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25.3 | 18.8 | Wattle Grove Welshpool Road East
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| Maddington, Orange Grove Kelvin Road
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22.6 | 21.5 | Maddington, Orange Grove Kelvin Road
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| Maddington, Orange Grove Gosnells Road East
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19.8 | 24.3 | Maddington, Orange Grove Gosnells Road East
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| Maddington, Orange Grove, Martin Gosnells Road West
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19.6 | 24.5 | Maddington, Orange Grove, Martin Gosnells Road West
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| Martin Mills Road West / Mills Road East
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17.5 | 26.6 | Martin Mills Road West / Mills Road East
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| CANNING RIVER | 16.0 | 27.1 | CANNING RIVER |
| Gosnells, Champion Lakes, Kelmscott Albany Highway 
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15.5 | 28.6 | Gosnells, Champion Lakes, Kelmscott Albany Highway
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| Gosnells, Champion Lakes Corfield Street |
15.5 | 28.6 | Gosnells, Champion Lakes Corfield Street |
| Champion Lakes Champion Drive
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11.6 | 32.5 | Champion Lakes Champion Drive
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| Champion Lakes, Forrestdale, Southern River Ranford Road 
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8.9 | 35.2 | Champion Lakes, Forrestdale, Southern River Ranford Road
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| Haynes, Forrestdale Armadale Road 
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6.9 | 37.2 | Haynes, Forrestdale Armadale Road
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| Haynes, Forrestdale, Hilbert Forrest Road
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5.4 | 38.7 | Haynes, Forrestdale, Hilbert Forrest Road
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| Oakford, Forrestdale, Hilbert Rowley Road
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3.2 | 40.9 | Oakford, Forrestdale, Hilbert Rowley Road
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End of Tonkin Highway
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Start of the Tonkin Highway
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| Oakford, Darling Downs Thomas Road  
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swell
- Locate . Department of Land Information, Western Australia (enter Tonkin Hwy at the top right)
- Various city maps of Perth - 1970s – 1990s
- Main Roads WA
- 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 .
- Infrastructure Australia, A Report to the Council of Australian Governments . P. 70 ( Memento of October 24, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
- Preliminary draft master plan 2009 . Westralia Airports Corporation. P. 73
- Steve Parish: Australian Touring Atlas . Steve Parish Publishing. Archerfield QLD 2007. ISBN 978-1-74193-232-4 . P. 77
Individual evidence
- ↑ News . Main Roads WA. Retrieved June 8, 2012.
- ^ Current Works . Westralia Airports Corporation Pty Ltd. Retrieved June 8, 2012.