City Ring Route

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City Ring Road

General information
Type Road
Length16.9 km (11 mi) [1]
Route number(s) AUS Alphanumeric Route R1.svg R1 (2017–present)
Former
route number
AUS Alphanumeric Route A21.svg A21 (1998–2017)
(Thebarton–Wayville)
Ring road around
Major junctions
FromAUS Alphanumeric Route A1.svg Main North Road
Medindie, Adelaide
 
ToAUS Alphanumeric Route A1.svg Main North Road
Medindie, Adelaide
Location(s)
Region Western Adelaide, Eastern Adelaide [2]
Major suburbs Gilberton, Kent Town, Dulwich, Parkside, Wayville, Bowden, Richmond, Thebarton

Adelaide has two city ring routes, that loop around the Adelaide city centre and North Adelaide, known as the Inner and Outer Ring Routes. [3]

Contents

Inner ring route

The Inner Ring Route is a collection of major roads signposted as state route R1 [4] (was A21 before 2017). Listed clockwise from Main North Road, the inner route consists of: [1] [5]

The Inner Ring Route is adjacent to the outer edge of the Adelaide Park Lands except on the western side between Anzac Highway and Port Road where railway lines occupy the space along the parklands, and the road ring route is further out. The earlier A21 route using West Terrace passed inside the ring of parklands instead.

History

Prior to the renumbering as route R1 in 2017, the western side of the previous route A21 was different from the current route. It followed moore of Port Road southeast, West Terrace and Goodwood Road. Route R1 uses James Congdon Drive, a short section of South Road and Richmond Road instead.

The Park Terrace section had a level crossing of the Outer Harbor railway line until 2017. The crossing was replaced by a bridge when the railway was lowered as part of a project to separate the Torrens Junction so that suburban trains to Outer Harbor did not conflict with interstate trains on the standard gauge line.

The Park Terrace bridge over the Gawler railway line and interstate freight line was constructed in 1990. When it was built, it replaced an awkward 30-degree level crossing. In 2017, it was named after the engineer who supervised its construction, David Fitzsimons. [6]

Route description

LGA [7] Location [1] [8] km [1] miDestinationsNotes
Adelaide-Prospect-Walkerville tripoint North Adelaide-Thorngate-Medindie tripoint0.00.0AUS Alphanumeric Route A1.svg Main North Road (A1 north, unallocated south)  Gepps Cross, Port Wakefield, Gawler Northernmost point of Ring Road and route R1
Name change: Fitzroy Terrace (west), Robe Terrace (east)
Adelaide-Walkerville boundary North Adelaide-Medindie-Gilberton tripoint1.20.75AUS Alphanumeric Route A10.svg Northcote Terrace (A10 north)  Houghton, Birdwood, Angaston
Walkerville Terrace (northeast)  Walkerville
Name change: Robe Terrace (west), Mann Road (n/bound)/Park Road (n/bound) (south)
1.50.93 Melbourne Street   North Adelaide No right turn into Park Road southbound
1.71.1 O-Bahn Busway Buses only
2.01.2Bundeys Road  North Adelaide Name change: Mann Road (n/bound)/Park Road (n/bound) (north), Hackney Road (south)
River Torrens 2.21.4Hackney Bridge
Adelaide-Norwood Payneham & St Peters boundary Adelaide-Hackney-Kent Town tripoint3.32.1AUS Alphanumeric Route A11.svg North Terrace (A11 east)  Campbelltown, Hope Valley, Houghton
Botanic Road (west) – Adelaide CBD
Name change: Hackney Road (north), Dequetteville Terrace (south)
Adelaide-Norwood Payneham & St Peters-Burnside tripoint Adelaide-Kent Town-Rose Park 4.62.9 Fullarton Road (north)  Norwood
Wakefield Road (west) – Adelaide CBD
Kensington Road (east)  Wattle Park
Britannia Roundabout
Name change: Dequetteville Terrace (northwest), Fullarton Road (south)
Adelaide-Burnside boundary Adelaide-Dulwich-Glenside-Eastwood quadripoint5.93.7AUS Alphanumeric Route B26.svg Greenhill Road (B26 east)  Burnside, Uraidla, Balhannah
AUS Alphanumeric Route A1.svg Fullarton Road (A1 south)  Glen Osmond, Fullarton, Belair
Name change: Fullarton Road (north), Greenhill Road (west)
Adelaide-Unley-Burnside tripoint Adelaide-Parkside-Eastwood tripoint2.91.8 Glen Osmond RoadAdelaide CBD, Glen Osmond
Adelaide-Unley boundary Adelaide-Parkside boundary2.71.7Hutt Road (north) – Adelaide CBD
George Street (south)  Parkside
Adelaide-Unley-Parkside tripoint2.11.3AUS Alphanumeric Route B29.svg Unley Road (B29 south, unallocated north) – Adelaide CBD, Belair
Adelaide-Unley boundary8.15.0 Peacock Road (north) – Adelaide CBD
King William Road (south)  Unley Park
Adelaide-Wayville-Unley tripoint8.25.1 Glenelg tram line
Adelaide-Wayville boundary8.75.4Sir Lewis Cohen Avenue – Adelaide CBD
9.25.7 Goodwood RoadAdelaide CBD, Hindmarsh
Adelaide-Unley-West Torrens tripoint Adelaide-Wayville-Keswick-Keswick Terminal quadripoint9.76.0 Belair, Seaford and Adelaide–Melbourne SG railway lines
AUS Alphanumeric Route A5.svg Anzac Highway (A5 southwest, unallocated northeast) – Adelaide CBD, Glenelg Name change: Greenhill Road (east), Richmond Road (west)
West Torrens Keswick-Marleston-Richmond-Mile End South quadripoint10.86.7AUS Alphanumeric Route A2.svg South Road (A2 south)  Edwardstown, Darlington, Old Noarlunga Concurrency with route A2
Richmond-Mile End South boundary11.37.0AUS Alphanumeric Route A2.svg South Road (A2 north)  Wingfield, Hindmarsh, Gawler
Mile End South-Keswick Terminal-Mile End tripoint12.17.5AUS Alphanumeric Route A6.svgWestern Australia MR-SM-11.svg Sir Donald Bradman Drive (A6 west, unallocated east) – Adelaide CBD, Adelaide Airport, West Beach
Adelaide-West Torrens boundary Adelaide-Mile End boundary13.18.1 Henley Beach Road (west)  Mile End, Fulham, Henley Beach Half-diamond interchange, no access eastbound
Adelaide-Thebarton boundary13.68.5 Port Road (southeast) – Adelaide CBD Name change: James Congdon Drive (south), Port Road (north)
River Torrens 14.79.1Hackney Bridge
Adelaide-Charles Sturt boundary North Adelaide-Hindmarsh boundary14.89.2AUS Alphanumeric Route A7.svg Port Road (A7 northwest)  Woodville, Port Adelaide Name change: Port Road (south), Park Terrace (northeast)
North Adelaide-Hindmarsh-Bowden tripoint14.99.3 Outer Harbor and Grange railway lines
North Adelaide-Bowden-Ovingham tripoint15.59.6 Gawler and Adelaide–Port Augusta SG railway lines
Adelaide-Charles Sturt-Prospect tripoint North Adelaide-Ovingham-Fitzroy tripoint16.310.1AUS Alphanumeric Route A22.svg Torrens Road (A22)  Rosewater, Kilburn Name change: Park Terrace (southwest), Fitzroy Terrace (east)
Adelaide-Prospect boundary North Adelaide-Fitzroy-Thorngate tripoint16.810.4 Prospect Road   Prospect, Gepps Cross
Adelaide-Prospect-Walkerville boundary North Adelaide-Thorngate-Medindie tripoint17.110.6AUS Alphanumeric Route A1.svg Main North Road (A1 north, unallocated south)  Gepps Cross, Port Wakefield, Gawler Northernmost point of Ring Road and route R1
Name change: Fitzroy Terrace (west), Robe Terrace (east)
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi

Outer ring route

The Outer Ring Route is not signposted. It also consists of major roads surrounding the city. They are: [3]

See also

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