Abernethy Road

Abernethy Road Western Australia
General information
Type	Road
Length	14.7 km (9.1 mi)
Route number(s)	File:Australian state route 55.svg State Route 55 (Southeast of Fairbrother Street)
Major junctions
Northwest end	File:Australian national highway 94.svgFile:Australian national route 1.svgGreat Eastern Highway (National Highway 94 / National Route 1), Belmont
	File:Australian state route 55.svg Fairbrother Street (State Route 55) File:Australian state route 7.svg Leach Highway (State Route 7) Kewdale Road Kalamunda Road
Northeast end	File:Australian national highway 94.svg Great Eastern Highway Bypass (National Highway 94), Hazelmere
Location(s)
Major suburbs	Cloverdale, Kewdale, Forrestfield, High Wycombe

Abernethy Road is a 14.7-kilometre (9.1 mi) long minor arterial road linking Belmont with the Great Eastern Highway Bypass in Hazelmere, a suburb of Perth, Western Australia.

It runs along the eastern boundary of the Perth Airport area.

It serves as an alternative access road for Perth Airport (via Grogan Road), and provides the foothills suburbs with alternative access to the Perth central business district.

In 2014, an on-ramp joining with Tonkin Highway where Abernethy Road passes underneath was constructed, as part of Gateway WA.

Route description

Beginning at the Great Eastern Highway in Belmont, the road passes in a south-easterly direction through residential Belmont before the Leach Highway, which it crosses. It proceeds through the Kewdale industrial area towards Tonkin Highway, where it turns to a north-easterly direction, with the remainder of the route travelling through the industrial area of Forrestfield, High Wycombe, and Hazelmere. The road ends at the Great Eastern Highway Bypass, which provides alternative access to South Guildford (to the west) or to Bellevue and Midland.

History

In 1911, Abernethy Road was used as part of the boundary between the East Perth and Midland districts in the Western Australian Cricket Association's district scheme. Later that year, new work was completed on the road by the Belmont Road Board. In January 1913, the Wattle Grove Progress Association requested that the Darling Downs Road Board make repairs to Abernethy Road and other roads in the area. In March 1929, the residents of Maida Vale petitioned the road board to improve their section of Abernethy Road, which resulted in the foreman being instructed to install a culvert and plank footpath. In 1930, the road board undertook further work on Abernethy Road, using men eligible for unemployment relief payments. These works were funded by putting off the board's employees for a two-week period.

A new ramp from Abernethy Road to Tonkin Highway southbound was constructed as part of the $1 billion Gateway WA project. Construction of the ramp, and the Gateway WA project, officially began on 1 February 2013 with a groundbreaking ceremony attended by the state and federal transport ministers, Troy Buswell and Anthony Albanese, and was opened to the public in early 2014.

Major intersections

All major intersections along Abernethy Road are controlled by traffic lights unless otherwise indicated below.

LGA	Location	km	mi	Destinations	Notes
Belmont	Ascot-Belmont boundary	0	0.0	File:Australian national highway 94.svgFile:Australian national route 1.svgFile:Western Australia MR-SM-11.svg Great Eastern Highway (National Highway 94 / National Route 1) – Perth, Midland, Perth Airport	North-western terminus of Abernethy Road, no right turn from Abernethy Road to Great Northern highway
	Belmont	1	0.62	File:Australian state route 55.svg Fairbrother Street (State Route 55)  – Bayswater, Ascot, Redcliffe	State Route 55 north-western concurrency terminus, no right turn from Fairbrother Street to Abernethy Road
		1.7	1.1	Alexander Road – Rivervale
	Cloverdale	2.3	1.4	Wright Street – Kewdale	Access to Belmont Forum
		2.6	1.6	Fulham Street – Kewdale	Access to Belmont Forum
	Cloverdale, Kewdale boundary	4.1	2.5	File:Australian state route 7.svgFile:Western Australia MR-SM-11.svg Leach Highway (State Route 7)  – Fremantle, Wilson, Welshpool, Perth Airport	SPUI Interchange favouring Leach Highway. Also intersects an onramp from Tonkin Highway northbound prior to merging with Leach in order to avoid the need for weaving.
	Kewdale	4.6	2.9	Noble Street
		5.3	3.3	File:Western Australia MR-SM-11.svg Kewdale Road – Welshpool, Perth Airport
		6.9	4.3	McDowell Street northbound/Terminal Road southbound - Kewdale Freight Terminal	A northbound offramp from Tonkin Highway intersects via McDowell Street.
		7.1	4.4	Daddow Road
Belmont–Kalamunda border	Perth Airport, Forrestfield, Kewdale tripoint	7.4	4.6	File:Australian state route 4.svg Tonkin Highway (State Route 4) southbound / File:Australian state route 3.svg Roe Highway (State Route 3) Armadale, Fremantle, Midland, Jandakot	Southbound access to Tonkin Highway only, ramps to Roe Highway spur off prior to merging onto Tonkin.
Kalamunda	High Wycombe	10.8	6.7	File:Western Australia MR-SM-11.svg Grogan Road - Perth Airport Terminals 1/2	Unsignalised intersection. To be closed once Perth Airport's third runway is under construction.
		12.3	7.6	Dundas Road	Unsignalised intersection. Access to High Wycombe railway station.
Kalamunda-Swan border	High Wycombe, Perth Airport boundary	13.4	8.3	Kalamunda Road  – South Guildford, Maida Vale, Kalamunda
Swan	Perth Airport	14.3	8.9	Ulm Place westbound / Yagine Close eastbound	Roundabout
	Hazelmere	14.7	9.1	File:Australian national highway 94.svg Great Eastern Highway Bypass (National Highway 94)  – Redcliffe, Guildford, Midland	Northeastern terminus. State Route 55 (File:Australian state route 55.svg) north-eastern concurrency terminus. To be replaced with a SPUI with the road continuing as Lloyd Street northbound to Midland.
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi       Concurrency terminus       Incomplete access