Warwick Road

Warwick Road
Western Australia
General information
Type Road
Length 8 km (5 mi)
Opened 1969
Route number(s) State Route 81
Major junctions
West end Marmion Avenue (State Route 71), Sorrento
 
East end Wanneroo Road (State Route 60 / State Route 81), Greenwood
Location(s)
Major suburbs Duncraig, Warwick, Greenwood

Warwick Road is an arterial east-west road located in the northern suburbs of Perth, Western Australia. It was built in 1969 to service the Shire of Wanneroo parts of the Hamersley Development Scheme, which was later split into the suburbs of Duncraig, Warwick and Greenwood. Its original alignment, which was gazetted in 1949 as Road No. 10578 by the Wanneroo Road Board,[1] was a straight east-west road extending to Alexander Drive, but in the mid-1970s, the alignment was altered southwards in the vicinity of the freeway alignment (the Mitchell Freeway was not, however, built until 1986), and in the late 1970s, the section east of Wanneroo Road was split off to form Marangaroo Drive.

Apart from the Glengarry and Greenwood neighbourhood shopping centres, Warwick Road also passes Warwick Open Space east of Erindale Road and the Percy Doyle Reserve, which includes sports and recreation facilities and the Duncraig Library, near Marmion Avenue.

Major intersections

View westbound from Coolibah Drive
View eastbound from Erindale Road

See also

Australian roads portal

References

  1. ↑ "Road Districts Act 1919-48 - Wanneroo Road Board (per 955/48)". Western Australia Government Gazette. 9 September 1949. p. 1949:2261.


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