Canning Highway
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Western Australia
The Canning Highway is a major road in Perth in the southeast of the Australian state of Western Australia. It connects the Great Eastern Highway and Albany Highway in the district of Victoria Park with the port city of Fremantle.
The road is mostly four lanes and provided along its length with a speed limit of 60 km / h. It accompanies the Swan River on its south shore between the Causeway (S5 ) in Victoria Park and Queen Victoria Street (S12 ) in Fremantle.
History
The Canning Highway was. Alfred Canning, one of the first pastoralists in Western Australia, in the late 19th century and settled in an area that today is part of the Local Government Area Melville City
With the work on the modern highway began in the 1920s. Reinforced construction work began in 1927 with the expansion of the 8 km long section between the Suburban Street in South Perth and Petra Street, East Fremantle. Initially, the road was following designations:
- Canning Road ( Fremantle Wireless Hill )
- Perth - Fremantle Road (Wireless Hill Canning Bridge )
- Lower Canning Road ( Canning Bridge South Terrace )
- Fremantle Road ( South Terrace Causeway )
On November 23, 1937, the street was officially renamed Canning Highway. In 1938 the present north bridge was opened over the Canning River. It was 9.8 m wide and made of wood, as was customary. The experience gained during the construction could use in the construction of the Fremantle Traffic Bridge over the Swan River a year later. This bridge connected the Canning Highway in Fremantle North Fremantle and today forms the western end of the street.
1958 was built along with the Kwinana Freeway between the Narrows Bridge and the Canning Highway today's South Bridge over the Canning River.
In 1974, the roundabout at the south end of the Causeway in Victoria Park was expanded into a partial cloverleaf, so the Canning Highway was free of intersections connected to the Great Eastern Highway. At the same time, the Stirling Highway from North Fremantle on the Swan River and the new Sterling Bridge was extended and connected to the Canning Highway.
In 1979, a new height with the Kwinana Freeway free intersection on the north bridge over the Canning River, so this could be extended through under the Canning Highway to the south.
Since then, there were only small changes in the Canning Highway, such as the cultivation of additional short tracks.
Nummierung
The Canning Highway takes over from the Great Eastern Highway, the numbering as Route 1 (R1) and passes it to the Kwinana Freeway on.
- Along the entire length
- From Victoria Park to the north bridge over the Canning River