| Hester Avenue | |
| View east towards Ridgewood | |
| Length | 2.8 km (2 mi) |
| Direction | East-West |
| From | Wanneroo Road, Neerabup |
| Major suburbs | Nowergup, Ridgewood, Clarkson, Merriwa |
| To | Marmion Avenue, Mindarie |
| Major junctions | Connolly Drive |
Hester Avenue (also known as Quinns Road) is an east-west distributor road in the outer northern suburbs of Perth, Western Australia, located within the City of Wanneroo. It primarily links the coastal suburbs of the Clarkson-Butler region to the arterial Wanneroo Road in the east.
The road begins with two-lanes at Wanneroo Road, before becoming a dual carriageway at Clarkson after crossing the Joondalup railway line over a bridge. The road terminates at a roundabout with Marmion Avenue, where it becomes Anchorage Drive North, a local distributor road in Mindarie. The speed limit begins at 60km/h, increasing to 70km/h at the dual carriageway.
Direct access to the Nowergup Rail Depot is also provided by the road. It is planned to become an entrance to an extended Mitchell Freeway.
Hester Avenue was designed in the early 1970's as a new alignment of Quinns Road, an already-existing east-west road that directly linked Wanneroo Road to the coastal townsite of Quinns Rocks. It was named after Thomas Hester, an early settler and local land-owner in the area, whose name was also initally proposed for the adjoining suburb of Merriwa.
The new alignment was first built in 1990 to coincide with the developments of Mindarie and Merriwa by Smith Corporation, running back onto the original Quinns Road at the intersection of the future Connolly Drive. The portion of Quinns Road in between Marmion Avenue and Connolly Drive was then closed to general traffic and turned into a cul-de-sac in Merriwa, where it was renamed Palermo Court.
Hester Avenue deviates south-westerly from the original Quinns Road from Connolly Drive onwards, where it runs directly into Mindarie. Quinns Road west of Marmion Avenue survives today as a local distributor road in Quinns Rocks, while the unaltered portion east of Connolly Drive now assumes the name Hester Avenue for its entire length.
The road was built into a dual carriageway from Marmion Avenue to Hidden Valley Retreat, Clarkson, in 2003.[1]