Kwinana Freeway
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The Kwinana Freeway is an urban freeway in the southwest of the Australian state of Western Australia. It connects the Mitchell Freeway in Perth city center, with the Pinjarra Road between the cities of Mandurah and Pinjarra and the Forrest Highway.
In the city center of Perth, the speed limit is 80 km / h Then it increases to 100 km / h and at the Lakes Road to 110 km / h The minimum speed is, as on all freeways in Western Australia, each 20 km / h below the speed limit, as far as the road conditions allow. The Kwinana Freeway forms the central portion of the state highway 2 (S2), where the northern from the Mitchell Freeway and the southern Forrest Highway are bebildet. On a 4 km section between Canning Highway ( S6) and Leach Highway ( S7) carries the highway also labeled Route 1 (R1).
On the Kwinana Freeway, the different directions are consistently separated by a median strip. From the beginning of Freeway in the north to Mill Point Road are 5 lanes in each direction is available and then 3-4 lanes to Leach Highway. South of it are then each 2 lanes, the underpasses and bridges are already designed to subsequent broadening. The Kwinana Freeway forms the border of many districts in the south of Perth. Between the Perth city center and the suburb Mandogalup the rail line to Mandurah runs down the middle of the highway. In Mandogalup the railway line bends from west to Port Rockingham.
History
The first section of the Kwinana Freeway today was completed in 1959. He was the highway on the new Narrows Bridge to Canning Highway and the speed limit was 50 mph ( 80 km / h ). In the 1970s, this section has been expanded to freeway standard. The Judd Street Bridge was opened in 1976 and the motorway connection to the Canning Highway was 1979.
Between 1979 and 1982 an extension by 7 km to the south over the Leach Highway addition to South Street (S13 ) was created. This section also includes the Mount Henry Bridge over the Canning River, which is the longest road bridge Western Australia with 660 m. The third phase of construction, which was opened in 1991, was an extension to the south by a further 9 km to the Forrest Road (now Armadale Road / Beeliar Drive).
The fourth phase of construction - opened in 1994 - brought the freeway closer to Rockingham approach and opened the then undeveloped Local Government Area Cockburn City. This new extension was not built according to freeway standard, but was called ' Kwinana Freeway '. This was done for lack of money: you could not afford to build the necessary 5 flyovers. South of Farrington Road, there were traffic lights (complete with traffic sign "End of Freeways " and " the beginning of the freeways " at each intersection ).
A fifth phase of construction was completed in 2002 and included:
- A 12 km long road section to Safety Bay Road south of Rockingham
- The conversion of the five sets of traffic lights from the previous section in the amount free connections
- The Kwinana Freeway Bus Transitway, consisting of: a two-lane bus route between the Esplanade Bus Port ( Bus Station Perth ) and the Canning Highway
- A bus lane northbound between Canning Highway and the Murdoch Park 'n ' Ride and
- Canning Bridge Transfer Station, an interchange with bus routes on Kwinana Freeway and Canning Highway on.
On the afternoon of May 13, 2005, a water pipe broke near the driveway at the Mill Point Road south to South Perth. This caused a widespread flooding throughout the area, the lanes of freeways washed away to the south and completely broke up the freeway ramp. The ensuing traffic jams all over the city and its surroundings dragged on into the night. On average, therefore, the journey from the Mill Point Road to Canning Highway takes the parallel Labouchere Road along about 2 hours.
In mid-2006, the bus Transitway was closed to allow the construction of the rail line to Mandurah, which was completed in 2007. After recording operation of the railway most of the bus were set on the Freeway; but they kept with bus lanes and exits for the remaining lines between the city center and Canning Highway.
The construction of a 32 km long continued south to Pinjarra Road and the Murray River in South Yanderup was completed in 2009. Also the Forrest Highway south of Pinjarra Road, a 38 km long highway, which was previously called Peel Deviation, arose during this period. The Forrest Highway forwards the traffic in the east to the Peel - Harvey Estuary around for quite some time existing connection to the motorway section of the Old Coast Road ( R1) at Lake Clifton. The highway was built with the intention to bring it to Freeway standard later. The combined Freeway -Highway project was first called New Perth Bunbury Highway until the individual streets received their final name.
The Freeway and Highway to guide the long-distance transport to Mandurah around and so reduce the volume of traffic in the city and shorten the travel time from Perth to Bunbury, particularly during the holiday season, when families go to the southwest of the state. The extension of the Kwinana Freeway and Forrest Highway were opened on 20 September 2009.
Further expansion
The works for the widening of the Kwinana Highway between Leach Highway (S7) and Roe Highway ( S3) from two to three lanes in each direction began in early April 2011 and expected to be completed in December 2012. The AU $ 58 million project aims to reduce the increasing traffic congestion in this area ..
At the Manning Road ( S26) an access road to the south is to be built, but currently lack the financing of the project and two residential blocks would have to be canceled.
Exits and junctions
The Kwinana Freeway begins in the north at the Narrows junction with the Mitchell Highway. The intersection is located at the north end of the Narrows Bridge. A 32 km long extension of the Freeway to the south, which was opened in September 2009, leading to the southern end of the freeway at the Pinjarra Road east of Mandurah.