Hester Avenue

Hester Avenue Western Australia
View east towards Ridgewood
Hester Avenue Location of Hester Avenue within the Perth Metropolitan Region
Coordinates	31°40′12.7″S 115°43′48″E / 31.670194°S 115.73000°E / -31.670194; 115.73000
General information
Type	Road
Length	2.8 km (1.7 mi)
Major junctions
East end	Wanneroo Road (State Route 60), Neerabup
	Connolly Drive
West end	Marmion Avenue (State Route 71), Mindarie
Location(s)
Major suburbs	Nowergup, Ridgewood, Clarkson, Merriwa

Hester Avenue (previously 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 60 km/h, increasing to 70 km/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.

History

Hester Avenue was designed in the early 1970s 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 initially 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]

Intersections

• - Wanneroo Road - Neerabup & Nowergup
• - Hidden Valley Retreat - Clarkson
• - Ridgewood Boulevard - Ridgewood
• - Porongorup Drive - Clarkson
• - Connolly Drive - Ridgewood, Merriwa & Clarkson
• - Baltimore Parade - Merriwa
• - Renshaw Boulevard - Clarkson
• - Marmion Avenue - Merriwa & Mindarie

See also

Australian Roads portal

References