Leach Highway

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Western Australia

The Leach Highway is a major road in Perth in the southeast of the Australian state of Western Australia. It connects the Tonkin Highway in Kewdale at the airport with the Carrington Street in Palmyra ( Fremantle ).

The road is expanded from four to six lanes along its entire length and km / h equipped with speed limits to 70 or 80.

History

The Leach Highway, after JD " Digby " Leach, a former head of the Land Transport Authority Main Roads Western Australia, named. In 1972, the first section between the Carrington Street, Palmyra and the High Road in Shelley was opened.

Soon, it was extended to Manning Road in Bentley, the Canning River was spanned with the old wooden bridge Riverton Bridge. In 1976, a further extension to the Orrong Road in Welshpool, including two bridges over railway line to Armadale and the Albany Highway. In 1978, a new concrete bridge, inaugurated Shelley Bridge over the Canning River. The Riverton Bridge has since been used only for local traffic.

Beginning of the 1980s, the highway was extended further to the east and now extends to the Tonkin Highway on the southwest border of the airport.

Around the same time some crossings were built with new roads around the Leach Highway. The extended southward Kwinana Freeway was connected with a partial cloverleaf and the new Centenary Avenue in Wilson received a connection to the Western Australian Institute of Technology to make more accessible. New at level crossings occur on Murdoch Drive and on Winthrop Drive for the new suburbs Bateman and Winthrop.

In Fremantle in 1985, the Stirling Highway from its intersection with the Canning Highway south to South Road, an extension of the Leach Highway to the west, extended. This was the last part of the better heavy transport connection between the port of Fremantle and the major industrial areas around Kewdale.

From then on the Leach Highway remained largely unchanged until 2005/2006, work on the projects at the Kwinana Freeway and the Orrong Road began.

High Street in Fremantle

The Leach Highway ends as a six-lane road with separate directions at the Carrington Street, Palmyra. But from there, the High Street yet another 1.5 km to the west. It is designed to the intersection with the Stirling Highway as a four-lane road with no median strip ( with a speed limit to 60 km / h), then it becomes a narrow local road link. The confluence of Stirling Highway is the main access to the port of Fremantle and is frequented by trucks.

Heavy traffic

The Leach Highway is one of the main heavy traffic routes in Western Australia, linking the industrial areas of Kewdale and Welshpool with Western Australia 's main container port in Fremantle. The highway was built in the 1970s in order to create together with the Roe Highway sufficient connections for heavy traffic on this route.

Due to limitations of the existing building, it was not possible to develop the road as a highway. This means that many side streets and plot exits lead to the Leach Highway. There are on the whole length of 22 sets of traffic lights and some residents calling for more traffic lights. Such a state of development is actually inappropriate for a six-lane road with heavy traffic.

With the (temporary? ) Task of stage 8 of the Roe Highway, it looks as if the Leach Highway also remain for the future in this state. The six -point plan of the state government for the improvement of freight traffic to and from the Port of Fremantle is fueled hopes of improving the situation.

Junction with the Orrong Road in Welshpool

In November 2005, the state government announced plans to build a height- free intersection of Leach Highway and Orrong Road. On the Orrong Road, an extension of the Graham Farmer Freeway, since the opening of freeways 2000, the traffic volume increased by 40%. In a new bridge spanning the Leach Highway, the Orrong Road. This crossing was considered the problematischte throughout Western Australia. Approximately 70,000 vehicles - of which a large proportion of trucks - cross it daily. Funding for this project was secured by the sale of the original reserverierten for the unrealized Fremantle Eastern Bypass strip of land. The project was completed in the meantime and the situation has improved significantly.

Nummierung

The Leach Highway from Kwinana Freeway takes over the numbering as Route 1 (R1) and passes it to the floor Road.

• Along the entire length
• Bull Creek to Palmyra