Grange Road, Adelaide

Grange Road South Australia
Coordinates	34°54′27″S138°29′26″E / 34.907628°S 138.490417°E / -34.907628; 138.490417 (West end) 34°54′16″S138°33′56″E / 34.904396°S 138.565637°E / -34.904396; 138.565637 (East end)
General information
Type	Road
Location	Adelaide
Length	6.8 km (4.2 mi) [1]
Route number(s)	A14 (1998–present) (through Beverley)
Major junctions
West end	Esplanade Grange, South Australia
	Tapleys Hill Road Holbrooks Road East Avenue
East end	Manton Street West Hindmarsh, South Australia
Location(s)
Region	Western Adelaide [2]
Major suburbs	Findon, Allenby Gardens

Grange Road is an arterial road in the western suburbs of Adelaide, South Australia. It runs from the coast at Grange to South Road, close to the city centre.

Route

Grange Road commences from Esplanade at Grange, on the Adelaide foreshore, and heads east, crossing Tapleys Hill Road between Seaton and Fulham Gardens, and the East Avenue-Holbrooks Road dog-leg through Flinders Park, before eventually ending at the intersection with South Road in West Hindmarsh.

The eastern end of Grange Road crosses the North-South Motorway trench as Manton Street, which passes Hindmarsh Stadium, behind the Adelaide Entertainment Centre, then joins the City Ring Route at Port Road and Park Terrace via a short stretch of Adam Street.

History

Grange Road, painting by Edmund H. Baggs, Adelaide 1902

Between 1894 and 1957, the Henley Beach railway line followed the west side of Military Road and crossed what is now Grange Road. The Kirkcaldy railway station was immediately south of Grange Road.

Two cars passing one another on Grange Road, Grange, looking west towards the sea. Houses in Surrey Street are on the right.

The 1936 Gregory's street directory shows that west of Tapleys Hill Road, Grange Road continued as Kircaldy Beach Road, and the area where it ended was known at that time as Kircaldy. ^[3] The 1940 Fuller's directory shows Grange Road to the bridge over the Port River and Kirkcaldy Road from there to the Esplanade. ^[4] Today, the bridge is just a culvert or stormwater drain, and there is only an open channel for the river downstream (north) of Grange Road.

In 2023, the state government announced that in 2025 it intends to upgrade the two intersections with Holbrooks Road and East Avenue (together, State Route A14) by realigning those two roads into a single intersection, and widen Grange Road in that area. ^[5]

Traffic volume increases from west to east. There are estimated to be 10,000 vehicles per day near Military Road, 22,300 west of Tapleys Hill Road, 25,100 east of Tapleys Hill Road, 26,500 east of Findon Road, 33,000 west of Holbrooks Road and 34,000 between East Avenue and South Road. Traffic between Holbrooks and East Avenue is not separately reported, but they carry 19,000 and 12,100 vehicles respectively. ^[6]

Major intersections

Grange Road is entirely contained within the City of Charles Sturt local government area. ^[7]

Location [1] [8]	km [1]	mi	Destinations	Notes
Grange–Henley Beach boundary	0.0	0.0	Esplanade – Grange	Western end of road
	0.1	0.062	Seaview Road – West Beach
	0.2	0.12	Military Road – Tennyson, Semaphore Park, Largs North
Seaton–Fulham Gardens boundary	2.2	1.4	Tapleys Hill Road (A15) – Fulham Gardens, Glenelg, Port Noarlunga
Beverley–Flinders Park boundary	5.6	3.5	Holbrooks Road (A14 south) – Underdale	Route A14 continues east along Grange Road
Beverley–Flinders Park–Allenby Gardens tripoint	5.7	3.5	East Avenue (A14 north) – Beverley	Route A14 continues north along East Avenue
West Hindmarsh–Hindmarsh boundary	6.8	4.2	South Road  – Regency Park, Wingfield, to North-South Motorway  – Wingfield, Waterloo Corner
			Manton Street – Hindmarsh	Eastern terminus of road
Route transition

References

1. "Grange Road" (Map). Google Maps . Retrieved 1 July 2022.
2. "Location SA Map viewer with regional layers". Government of South Australia . Retrieved 16 June 2022.
3. "Gregory's 1936 Adelaide Directory" (PDF). 1936. pp. 106, 107. Retrieved 1 April 2018.
4. "Map 11". Street Directory of Adelaide and Suburbs with Reference Maps. W.C. Fuller. 1940. Archived from the original on 1 April 2016. Retrieved 1 April 2018.
5. "Grange Road, Holbrooks Road and East Avenue Intersection Upgrade". Department for Infrastructure and Transport . Retrieved 18 September 2024.
6. "Traffic Volumes". Department for Infrastructure and Transport . Retrieved 23 September 2024.
7. "Location SA Map viewer with LGA layers". Government of South Australia . Retrieved 16 June 2022.
8. "Location SA Map viewer with suburb layers". Government of South Australia . Retrieved 16 June 2022.