Port Road, Adelaide

Port Road (state route A7) is a major road in Adelaide, South Australia connecting the Adelaide city centre with Port Adelaide.[1] It is 12 km (7.5 mi) long, and has a very wide median strip, giving a total width of approximately 70 m.

Port Road

South Australia
Looking towards the Adelaide city centre from Port Road in Hindmarsh
General information
TypeRoad
Length12 km (7.5 mi)
Route number(s)
  • R1 (James Congdon Drive - Hindmarsh)
  • A7 (Hindmarsh - Queenstown)
Former
route number		 A21 between West Terrace and Park Terrace before July 2017
Major junctions
SE endWest Terrace, Adelaide
 
NW end Grand Junction Road, Queenstown, Adelaide
Location(s)
Major suburbsAdelaide Park Lands, Thebarton, Hindmarsh, West Croydon, Kilkenny, Woodville South, Woodville, Woodville West, Albert Park, Cheltenham, Alberton, Port Adelaide

The original design, 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.[2] 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 in 2009–10, 200 metres of median strip at the city end is occupied by tram lines.

Travelling southbound under the Port Road bridge in the lowered motorway, September 2018

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.[3][4]

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
LGA[5]Location[5]kmmiDestinations[6]Notes
AdelaideAdelaide city centre00.0West Terrace / North Terrace
City of Adelaide, City of West TorrensThebarton10.62 R1 James Congdon Drive – Mile End, Keswickno route number southeast of this junction; R1 north of it
City of Adelaide, City of West Torrens, City of Charles SturtHindmarsh2.11.3 R1 Park Terrace – inner northern suburbs R1 (James Congdon Drive - Hindmarsh); A7 (Hindmarsh - Queenstown)
Charles SturtHindmarsh, West Hindmarsh, Croydon3.32.1 South Road / North–South CorridorMajor city bypass. South Road is being upgraded so through traffic passes under Port Road; expected completion end of 2018.[7]
Allenby Gardens, Beverley, West Croydon5.13.2 East Avenue – Adelaide Airport, Underdale
Beverley, Kilkenny, Woodville Park5.43.4Kilkenny Road – Regency Road
Albert Park, Cheltenham, Woodville7.84.8Cheltenham Parade / West Lakes Boulevard – AAMI Stadium, West Lakes
City of Charles Sturt / City of Port Adelaide EnfieldAlbert Park, Queenstown, Cheltenham9.05.6Old Port Road
Port Adelaide EnfieldQueenstown, Alberton9.76.0 Tapleys Hill Road – Glenelg
Queenstown11.06.8 Grand Junction RoadContinues as Commercial Road, Port Adelaide
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi
  • Location of Port Road in Adelaide.

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. Was there ever going to be a canal on Port Road and is that why it is so wide?, ABC, 2 November 2018
  3. "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.
  4. "T2T". T2T Alliance. 31 July 2015. Retrieved 8 August 2015.
  5. "Property Location Browser". Government of South Australia. Archived from the original on 12 October 2016. Retrieved 5 March 2016.
  6. Google (5 March 2016). "Port Road, Adelaide to Port Adelaide" (Map). Google Maps. Google. Retrieved 5 March 2016.
  7. "Project Scope". T2T Alliance. Retrieved 10 January 2017.

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