Portrush Road, Adelaide

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South Australia

The Portrush Road is a main road in Adelaide, in the center of the Australian state of South Australia. It connects the Adelaide - Crafers Highway in the southeastern district Glen Osmond with the Payneham Road in the eastern district Payneham. The declared as National Highway A17 road is continued in the northern district to Grand Junction Road ..

Course

It starts at the northern end of the Adelaide - Crafers Highway (M1 ) at the foot of the Adelaide Hills, lead from where the Cross Road (A3 ) to the west and the Glen Osmond Road ( A1) to the northwest in the city center. The Portrush Road creates the connection to the north and east acts as a bypass of downtown Adelaide. In Tusmore it crosses the Green Hill Road (A21 ), in Kensington Kensington Road, Beulah Park in the street The Parade and Magill Road in the Trinity Gardens, all of which result from the city center to the east.

At the Payneham Road ( A11), which on the southeastern shore of the River Torrens runs from downtown to the northeast, the Portrush Road ends

Important intersections

  • Beginning at the intersection of the Adelaide - Crafers Highway, Glen Osmond Road and Cross Road, Glen Osmond   Greenhill Road: Tusmore
  • Kensington Road Kensington
  • The Parade Beulah Park
  • Magill Road: Trinity Gardens
  • Ends at the junction with the Payneham Road: Payneham

A17

At the Payneham Road National Road A17 turns off and crossed the Lower Portrush Road to the River Torrens to the northwest. From the bridge it is called Ascot Avenue. From the junction with the North East Road (A10 ) it is called Taunton Road. Approx. 100 meters the road turns back to the north and Hampstead Road is named. At the junction with the Grand Junction Road ( NA16 ) ends the national road A17.

The National Roads A17 ( Portrush Road - Hampstead Road) and A16 ( Grand Junction Road ) form the main routes for freight traffic from the suburbs of Adelaide, the southern South Australia and the adjacent Victoria to the Port of Adelaide and the northern parts of South Australia.

Possible expansion

Had the Metropolitan Adelaide Transport Study was realized in the 1960s, then there would be a Hills Freeway along the present Portrush Road as the connection from the South Eastern Freeway (M1 ) built to the Port of Adelaide. This would have included the transport, which is now managed via the Portrush Road and its northern ports.

Source

Steve Parish: Australian Touring Atlas. Steve Parish Publishing. Archerfield QLD 2007 ISBN. 978-1-74193-232-4. p. 64

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