Salisbury Highway

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Salisbury Highway

John Rice Avenue

Salisbury Highway
Coordinates
General information
TypeHighway
Location Adelaide
Length15.2 km (9.4 mi) [1]
Route number(s) AUS Alphanumeric Route A9.svg A9 (2017–present)
Former
route number
  • Australian national highway A13.svg National Highway A13 (1998–2017)
    (Wingfield–Dry Creek)
  • AUS Alphanumeric Route A13.svg A13 (1998–2017)
    (Dry Creek–Elizabeth Vale)
Major junctions
Southwest endAUS Alphanumeric Route A9.svg Port River Expressway
Wingfield, Adelaide
 
Northeast endAUS Alphanumeric Route A20.svg Main North Road
Elizabeth Vale, Adelaide
Location(s)
Region Western Adelaide, Northern Adelaide [2]
Major suburbs Dry Creek, Mawson Lakes, Parafield Gardens, Salisbury
Highway system

Salisbury Highway (and its northern section as John Rice Avenue) is a 15 kilometre major connecting road in the northern suburbs of the Adelaide metropolitan area. It is designated part of route A9.

Contents

Route

Salisbury Highway starts at the interchange with the North-South Motorway in Wingfield and heads east as a four-lane, dual-carriageway road and then north-east through the north-eastern suburbs of Adelaide, runs parallel to Main North Road from Mawson Lakes through Salisbury where it intersects with Commercial Road, changing name to John Rice Avenue and narrowing to a four-lane, single-carriageway road. It continues a short distance east to terminate with Main North Road in Elizabeth Vale.

History

Until the early 1990s, Salisbury Highway terminated at Port Wakefield Road. The Salisbury Highway Extension project built the bridge and interchange at Port Wakefield Road, and extended the highway to Wingfield, where it joined the north end of what was then the South Road Interconnector. Neither the Port River Expressway nor the North–South Motorway had been built at that time.

Salisbury Highway (and John Rice Avenue) was originally designated as part of route A13 when South Australia switched to the alpha-numeric road route system in 1998 (with Salisbury Highway between Port River Expressway and Port Wakefield Road was shown as part of National Highway A13 on local road signage and major street directory publications [3] ); it was replaced by route A9 in 2017.

Major intersections

LGA [4] Location [1] [5] km [1] miDestinationsNotes
Port Adelaide Enfield Dry CreekWingfield boundary0.00.0AUS Alphanumeric Route A9.svg Port River Expressway (A9)  Port Adelaide Western terminus of Salisbury Highway, route A9 continues west along Port River Expressway
AUS Alphanumeric Route M2.svg North-South Motorway (M2)  Waterloo Corner, Regency Park, Hindmarsh
South Road   Wingfield
Salisbury Dry CreekMawson Lakes boundary4.62.9AUS Alphanumeric Route A1.svg Port Wakefield Road   Port Wakefield, Waterloo Corner, Gepps Cross
Dry Creek 5.13.2Bridge over the river (bridge name unknown)
Salisbury Mawson Lakes 5.93.7 Elder Smith Road   Mawson Lakes
Salisbury DownsParafield Gardens boundary9.05.6AUS Alphanumeric Route A18.svg Kings Road   Paralowie, Parafield, Para Hills
Salisbury 11.27.0Park Terrace (east)  Salisbury
Waterloo Corner Road (northwest)  Burton
11.67.2 Gawler and Adelaide-Port Augusta SG railway lines
Little Para River 11.87.3Bridge over the river (bridge name unknown)
SalisburyPlayford boundary SalisburyElizabeth South boundary12.57.8Commercial Road  Edinburgh, Salisbury Name change: Salisbury Highway (southwest), John Rice Avenue (northeast)
Playford Elizabeth SouthElizabeth Vale boundary13.48.3 Philip Highway   Elizabeth
Elizabeth Vale 15.29.4AUS Alphanumeric Route A20.svg Main North Road   Gawler, Elizabeth, Gepps Cross, North Adelaide Northeastern terminus of John Rice Avenue and route A9

See also

Australia road sign W5-29.svg   Australian Roadsportal

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References

  1. 1 2 3 Google (16 June 2022). "Salisbury Highway" (Map). Google Maps . Google. Retrieved 16 June 2022.
  2. "Location SA Map viewer with regional layers". Government of South Australia . Retrieved 16 June 2022.
  3. 2006 Adelaide & Surrounds Street Directory, 54th Edition. Gregory's. June 2005. ISBN   0-7319-1842-8.
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  5. "Location SA Map viewer with suburb layers". Government of South Australia . Retrieved 16 June 2022.