Tonkin Highway

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The Tonkin Highway is a highway in the eastern suburbs of Perth in the southeast of the Australian state of Western Australia. It connects the Reid Highway in Malaga with the Thomas Road in Oakford. The partially four-lane road running is called State Road 4 (S4).

The largest part of the street has four lanes, but on some sections it is also expanded to six lanes. The speed limits vary between 80 km / h and 100 km / h and the road met mostly freeway - standard ( height- free connections ).

The highway passes through the Perth Airport on its southwest side and allows together with the Reid Highway, the Great Eastern Highway, the Leach Highway and Roe Highway, the access to it from different directions. He is also a major heavy vehicle route, linking the northeast and southeast suburbs of Perth Welshpool, one of the most important industrial areas of the city.

History

1955 beat Gordon Stephenson and Alastair Hepburn, the state government for the first time a highway on a similar track as part of a network of main roads in the context of an overall plan for the Greater Perth before. The land required for this purpose has been reserved 1963 Metropolitan Region Scheme.

Like most major roads in Perth and the Tonkin Highway was created in several stages. He was first called Beechboro - Gosnells Highway because he should combine these two suburbs. The first phase of the Welshpool Road to Hardey Road was opened in 1980, the second section of the Welshpool Road to Albany Highway ( S30) followed in 1981. Stage of construction three lay to the north of the Swan River, joined the Railway Parade with the Morley Drive and was completed in 1984. In the construction phase four of the Great Eastern Highway ( N94 / R1 ) was connected to the Hardey Road and included the construction of four bridges over the railway to railway workshop after Forrestfield, the first bridge in Australia, which emerged after the gradual construction methods. At the opening of the fourth phase of construction 1985, the Beechboro - Gosnells Highway was renamed in honor of former Prime Minister of Western Australia, John Tonkin.

In 1988, the northern and the southern stretch with the opening of Redcliffe Bridge over the Swan River connected. After several shorter extensions towards the north of the Tonkin Highway remained unchanged for over a decade, where he joined the Reid Highway in Malaga with the Albany Highway in Gosnells. Then they started in 2003 with an extension south to the Thomas Road ( S21) and opened it on 16 December 2005. The new compound improved the accessibility of Kwinana, Armadale, Rockingham and Byford. They also created a new and important route for heavy traffic and thus relieved the Nicholson Road, the Albany Highway and the South Western Highway (S20).

In April 2012, the connection of the Dunreath Drive was opened. These traffic lights gives the access to the international terminal of the airport, bypassing the highway crosses the Tonkin Highway to the Leach Highway and Kewdale Road / Miller Drive.

Further expansion

New sections according to Freeway standard

2009 announced the Westralia Airports Corporation ( WAC) and Main Roads Western Australia ( MRWA ) together with Infrastructure Australia ( IA) an AU $ 584 million costly expansion of Tonkin Highway and its connections to partial freeway standard to. This includes a six-lane expansion, on Highway traffic light free ports of Horrie Miller Drive and Kewdale Road, a height- free expansion of the port of Bond Avenue, a partial cloverleaf at Leach Highway and an improved partial cloverleaf on Roe Highway. The expansion is about 13 kilometers Highway raise between Collier Road in the north and Hale Road in the south to Freeway standard.

Renewals

At its south end of the Tonkin Highway leads out across the Greater Perth. See plans if necessary, a further extension to the south. The plans currently receiving little developed and semi- rural communities, as Mundijong, Jarrahdale and a card up with. To the south of Mundijong is the route cause to the east and the South Western Highway, near the Jarrahdale Road, end.

Even for an extension to the north is a planning. They would lead the Highway to Beach Road / Marshall Road, where it would connect to the planned extension of Hepburn Avenue also. If the Hepburn Avenue would also be expanded to the level of a dual carriageway, this could serve the development of new urban areas in Darch, Landsdale and Madeley. This extension is, however, at a very early stage of planning and execution is by no means certain or even terminated.

Intersections and exits

Most connections to the highway are at level of traffic lights. Exceptions are the Guildford Road and Albany Highway, have the height -free connections. The Great Eastern Highway and Brearley Avenue are connected with a partial cloverleaf that. Abernethy Road with only one exit north to McDowell Street The Roe Highway and the Dorfield Street provide a height- free connection and the Champion Drive and Forrest Road are simple junctions.

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'' '' Skyview WA. Department of Land Information, Western Australia
Various maps of Perth - 1970 - 1990s
Main Roads WA
Leigh Edmonds: The vital link: a history of Main Roads Western Australia 1926-1996. University of Western Australia Press, Nedlands, Western Australia 1997, ISBN 1-875560-87-4.
Infrastructure Australia, A Report to the Council of Australian Governments. S. 70 ( version of 24 October 2009 at the Internet Archive )
Preliminary Draft Master Plan 2009. Westralia Airports Corporation. S 73
Steve Parish: Australian Touring Atlas. Steve Parish Publishing. Archerfield QLD 2007 ISBN. 978-1-74193-232-4. S. 77

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