Port Road, Adelaide

Port Road
South Australia
Looking towards the Adelaide city centre from Port Road
General information
Type Road
Length 12 km (7 mi)
Route number(s)
  • A21
  • (Adelaide CBD - Hindmarsh)
  • A7
  • (Hindmarsh - Queenstown)
Major junctions
SE end West Terrace, Adelaide
 
NW end Grand Junction Road, Queenstown, Adelaide
Location(s)
Major suburbs Adelaide, Thebarton, West Croydon, Kilkenny, Woodville South, Woodville, Woodville West, Albert Park, Cheltenham, Alberton, Port Adelaide

Port Road (state route A7) is a major road in Adelaide, South Australia connecting the central business district with Port Adelaide.[1] It is 12 km (7.5 mi) long and exceptionally wide, approximately 70 m. When first conceived upon the establishment of Adelaide, it was designed to be able to accommodate a standard road, a railway line and a canal. The canal and railway line were never created in the road allotment: the railway line when built in 1853 was built 1 km to the east.

In the 1968 Metropolitan Adelaide Transport Study (MATS plan) the road was destined to be upgraded to become the Port Freeway. The plan fell through, yet in 2005 the Government of South Australia announced a 600 m tunnel for South Road below Port Road and the railway line. The Torrens Road to River Torrens project to upgrade South Road to include a free-flowing road in a trench under Port Road and several other intersections started construction in 2015 and is expected to be completed by the end of 2018.[2][3]

See also

Australian Roads portal

References

  1. ↑ 2003 Adelaide Street Directory, 41st Edition. UBD (A Division of Universal Press Pty Ltd). 2003. ISBN 0-7319-1441-4.
  2. ↑ "North-South Corridor: Torrens Road to River Torrens". Department of Planning, Transport and Infrastructure, Government of South Australia. 5 August 2015. 145594. Retrieved 8 August 2015.
  3. ↑ "T2T". T2T Alliance. 31 July 2015. Retrieved 8 August 2015.

External links

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