Port Road (and its northern section as Commercial Road through Port Adelaide) is a major road in Adelaide, South Australia connecting the Adelaide city centre with Port Adelaide.[3] It is 12 km (7.5 mi) long, and is designated part of route R1 within central Adelaide, and beyond as route A7.
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| Looking towards the Adelaide city centre from Port Road in Hindmarsh | |
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| Type | Road |
| Location | Adelaide |
| Length | 12.0 km (7.5 mi)[1] |
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| Former route number |  A21 (1998–2017)(Adelaide–Thebarton) |
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| Southeast end | North Terrace West Terrace Adelaide |
| Northwest end | St Vincent Street Port Adelaide, Adelaide |
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| Region | Eastern Adelaide, Western Adelaide[2] |
| Major suburbs | Thebarton, Hindmarsh, Beverley, Woodville, Albert Park, Cheltenham, Alberton |
Route
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Port Road starts at the north-western corner of the Adelaide city centre, at the intersection of North Terrace and West Terrace, and heads northwest, turning north at Thebarton to become part of the City Ring Route, before meeting Park Terrace at Hindmarsh and heading northwest again with its widened median, crossing the North-South Motorway and heading through the suburbs of Woodville and Cheltenham, before it turns northwards at Alberton to cross Grand Junction Road, changing name to Commercial Road and terminating not long afterwards in the centre of Port Adelaide.
History
editThe road includes a very wide median strip, giving a total width of approximately 70 metres. The original design was conceived soon after the establishment of Adelaide, was to accommodate a standard road and a canal, with the canal later replaced in the plans by a railway line.[4] The canal and railway line were never created in the road allotment: the railway line when built in 1853 was built approximately 1 km to the east. Since the extension of the Glenelg tram line in 2009–10, 200 metres of median strip at the city end is occupied by tram lines.
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 was completed by the end of 2018.[5][6]
Some routes in Adelaide were renumbered in 2017. Port Road had been designated route A21 (city ring route) between West Terrace and Park Terrace. After the change, the West Terrace end is not numbered, and it bears route R1 (city ring route) between James Congdon Drive and Park Terrace.
Major intersections
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References
edit- ^ a b c "Port Road" (Map). Google Maps. Retrieved 28 June 2022.
- ^ "Location SA Map viewer with regional layers". Government of South Australia. Retrieved 16 June 2022.
- ^ 2003 Adelaide Street Directory, 41st Edition. UBD (A Division of Universal Press Pty Ltd). 2003. ISBN 0-7319-1441-4.
- ^ Was there ever going to be a canal on Port Road and is that why it is so wide?, ABC, 2 November 2018
- ^ "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.
- ^ "T2T". T2T Alliance. 31 July 2015. Retrieved 8 August 2015.
- ^ "Location SA Map viewer with LGA layers". Government of South Australia. Retrieved 16 June 2022.
- ^ "Location SA Map viewer with suburb layers". Government of South Australia. Retrieved 16 June 2022.
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