Stirling Highway

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Western Australia

The Stirling Highway is a major road in Perth in the south west of the Australian state of Western Australia. It combines the Mounts Bay Road in Crawley High Street in Fremantle port. The most four-lane road with no median strip runs along the north bank of the Swan River. The speed limit is generally 60 km / h East of Crawley joins the Mounts Bay Road Highway with the nearby University of Western Australia and the city of Perth.

The road passes through several western suburbs of the city, such as Nedlands, Claremont, Peppermint Grove, Cottesloe and Mosman Park. Many elite schools are located along this route, such as the Christchurch Grammar School, the Presbyterian Ladies ' College and Methodist Ladies' College. In Claremont and Cottesloe, there are large shopping area and all along the road many retailers. The section south of Cotteloe runs along the railway.

History

The Stirling Highway was originally created as a rough dirt road, in 1829, the two newly established settlements Perth and Fremantle joined together after the founding of the Swan River Colony. A proper road was built several decades later, on this route, the reasons for this were the lack of manpower, the initially slow development of the colony, the initial lack of a bridge over the Swan River at the south end of the dirt road and the use of the river itself as the main route between the two settlements.

Prisoners had to build the road after the colony was established in 1850 as a penal colony. 1858, the work was completed. 1881, the road was declared a public highway.

1881, the railway line from Perth to Fremantle was completed, which runs here and there along the road. This promoted the development of the western suburbs of Perth and the country along the road.

In 1930 the street was named in honor of the first governor of Western Australia, Admiral Sir James Stirling, renamed. The construction of modern highways began in the 1930s and was completed in sections, each about 1 mile long per year:

At the weddings of trams and trolley buses in Perth (from the 1930s up to the 1950s ) drove several lines on the Stirling Highway, where the traction wires were held in place by steel poles at the edge of the highway. After dismantling, the tram lines, the remaining masts were soon unsightly and were removed as part of the project for the underground power cable laying the early 2000s.

In the 1970s, a new bridge over the Swan River was built just east of the Fremantle Traffic Bridge. This Stirling Bridge was opened to traffic in 1974. The Stirling Highway was passed over the new bridge and ended on Canning Highway ( S6).

Land extending south to High Street (S7) was opened in 1985 and was to be the first part of the proposed Roe Highway, building section 8 ( Fremantle Eastern Bypass ). These plans were abandoned but since then, so the Stirling Highway comes to an end on the High Street.

Swell

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• WhereiS.com. Sensis. Accessed on 17 April 2006.
• Town of Cottesloe: History. Retrieved on July 6, 2006.
• Steve Parish: Australian Touring Atlas. Steve Parish Publishing. Archerfield QLD 2007 ISBN. 978-1-74193-232-4. S. 77