Northern Expressway

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South Australia

The Northern Expressway is a highway in the center of the Australian state of South Australia, north of Adelaide. It connects the Sturt Highway at Gawler with Port Wakefield Road at Waterloo Corner. The road was widened to four lanes, allows for faster road connection from Adelaide to Gawler and relieves the Main North Road, which runs through the middle of the northern suburbs of Adelaide and has many traffic lights. He also serves as the transport, which is led by bypassing residential areas directly to Port Wakefield and on the Port River Expressway to Port Adelaide.

Construction

The Northern Expressway was the largest road construction project in South Australia in the last 60 years and cost about AU $ 564 million, financed jointly by South Australia and the Federal Government. Planning and construction were carried out by Fulton Hogan York Joint Venture and also included the development of a 8 km long road section of Port Wakefield Road. Part of the cost was borne by the AusLink funding program.

Construction began in 2008 and the road was opened to traffic on 13 September 2010.

The junctions and bridges along the highway were after famous battles, where the Australian army was involved, named such as Lon Tang, Kokoda, Tobruk and Kapyong.

List of exits

Proposed Northern Connector

In early 2008, the Government of South Australia before plans for the Northern Connector, an eight-lane feeder from the Northern Expressway to South Road. Including would be the construction of a motorway junction with the Port River Expressway / South Road. Similarly, the ARTC Interstate Railway Line would have to be diverted as it runs between Dry Creek and Taylors Road in Waterloo Corner exactly on the route of the future feeder.