Great Eastern Highway
Great Eastern Highway Gazetted | 14 April 1938[3] | |
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Great Eastern Highway is a 590-kilometre-long (370 mi) road that links the
There are numerous intersections in Perth with other highways and main roads, including Canning, Albany, Tonkin and Roe Highways, and Graham Farmer Freeway. There are also two rural highways that spur off Great Eastern Highway. Great Southern Highway begins near Perth's eastern metropolitan boundary, linking towns such as York, Brookton, Narrogin, and Katanning. Near the eastern end of the highway, Coolgardie is the starting point of Coolgardie–Esperance Highway, connecting to the interstate route Eyre Highway at Norseman, as well as the coastal town of Esperance.
The highway was created in the 1930s from an existing system of roads linking Perth with the Goldfields. Though the name Great Eastern Highway was coined to describe the route from Perth to Guildford on the northern side of the
Route description
Great Eastern Highway commences at
The highway runs mostly parallel to the Mundaring to Kalgoorlie water pipeline, which supplies the Goldfields with water from Mundaring Weir in the eastern part of Perth. The Golden Pipeline Heritage Trail is a tourist drive alongside the pipeline, with large sections of the trail following Great Eastern Highway.[5] Various road routes are allocated to sections of Great Eastern Highway, with some overlap between some of the routes. It is mostly signed as National Highway 94, except for the section between Great Eastern Highway Bypass and Roe Highway, and the final 40 kilometres (25 mi) from Coolgardie to Kalgoorlie. It is also signed as National Route 1 between The Causeway and Morrison Road in Midland, State Route 51 between Johnson Street in Guildford and Roe Highway, Tourist Drive 203 between Terrace Road in Guildford and Morrison Road, Midland, and Alternate National Route 94 east of Coolgardie.[4]
Main Roads Western Australia monitors traffic volume across the state's road network, including various locations along Great Eastern Highway.[6]: 3 In 2008/09, the busiest section was east of the Graham Farmer Freeway interchange, averaging 60,760 vehicles per weekday.[6]: 36 The lowest volume was an average of 850 vehicles per day near Ryans Find Road, partway between Southern Cross and Coolgardie; however, this point also received the largest proportion of heavy vehicles, at 40.2% of all traffic.[6]: 8 As of 2012[update], Great Eastern Highway between Mundaring and Northam is the state's worst section of National Highway, in terms of road safety. Casualty crash rates had decreased since 2007, although the Royal Automobile Club of Western Australia (RAC) still considered it a risky section of road needing close attention from road authorities.[7][note 1] In 2013, Great Eastern Highway remained as a road of particular concern, with the Australian Automobile Association giving 67% of the highway a low one- or two-star rating (out of five), and 77% of the route between The Lakes and Northam a one-star safety rating.[9]
Burswood to Midvale
Great Eastern Highway begins at a
The road travels for another 2.1 kilometres (1.3 mi) along the border between Ascot and Redcliffe, before reaching a traffic light controlled
The highway continues north-east for 1.6 kilometres (1 mi) to Midland. Throughout Midland and the adjacent suburb of Midvale, it is at the centre of a commercial area, with two shopping centres located alongside the highway, and retail businesses fronting both sides of the road. As Great Eastern Highway enters Midland, traffic splits into a pair of one-way roads. Eastbound traffic continues on Great Eastern Highway, while westbound traffic travels along Victoria Street. The split ends after 1 kilometre (0.6 mi), and a further 1.8 kilometres (1.1 mi) takes the highway to an interchange with Roe Highway, meeting up with traffic that bypassed the Guildford and Midland areas.[11]
Most of this section of the Highway is actually a road as it contains driveways, entrances and exits. At a 2019 Belmont council meeting interstate town planners attended and mentioned that with 60,000 to 80,000 vehicles a day in the section west or Roe Hwy they could not find a busier "road" (not Highway or Freeway) in the world. They looked at the Avenue des Champs-Élysées in France and Market Street in San Francisco.[12] West of Roe Hwy.
Greenmount to The Lakes
Great Eastern Highway is notorious for Greenmount Hill, where the highway encounters a steep three-kilometre-long (1.9 mi) slope with a 7% gradient[13] on Perth's eastern outskirts. The highway rises from the Swan Coastal Plain to the Darling Scarp to the north of Greenmount Hill, though it is commonly described as travelling "up Greenmount". The historic hill, with significant Aboriginal and European heritage sites, has been a well-known landmark since the 1830s, and featured on an 1846 survey of the York Road.[14] Part of this original eastern route remains as a separate road, now known as Old York Road. The highway diverges from this original route at a point 2.8 kilometres (1.7 mi) east of Roe Highway, bypassing residential properties that line the old road. The two routes meet again at the top of the main climb of the hill, after 1.8 kilometres (1.1 mi).[15]
From the sudden rise of Greenmount Hill through to Sawyers Valley, Great Eastern Highway has a series of rising and falling sections over rolling terrain. Along the way, the route follows the southern edge of John Forrest National Park for 3.3 kilometres (2.1 mi), passing to the north of the suburb of Glen Forrest. Beyond the national park, the highway continues to be lined by native trees and patches of remaining forest. It continues east for six kilometres (3.7 mi) between the low-density, rural residential areas of Hovea, Mahogany Creek, and Parkerville, before entering the Mundaring town centre. Continuing its journey east, the route leaves Mundaring and travels briefly through the north-eastern corner of Beelu National Park before coming to the rural community of Sawyers Valley, three and a half kilometres (2.2 mi) east of Mundaring.[16]
Beyond Sawyers Valley, Great Eastern Highway travels in a north-easterly direction, alongside and later within the northernmost part of the
East to Kalgoorlie
Great Eastern Highway continues past The Lakes in a northerly direction, reduced to a single carriageway with one lane in each direction. Five kilometres (3 mi) later, the highway encounters the north-eastern end of Old Northam Road, and subsequently winds its way through a
The highway heads east through the Wheatbelt as the region's main east–west route. The road passes by agricultural land and remnant
History
Convict-era road
A road along what is now Great Eastern Highway has existed since the
Highway origins
The name Great Eastern Highway was coined by the
In August 1934, the Bassendean Road Board applied to the Lands Department to change the portion of the Perth–Guildford road within its district to Great Eastern Highway. The department refused the request, reasoning that most traffic bound for Midland used The Causeway and travelled on the south side of the Swan River, and that therefore the Perth–Guildford road should not be part of the main highway.[36] Despite this setback, the Perth Road Board organised a local government conference to consider renaming the road from Perth to Guildford. The issue was considered important, as losing the name to the south side of the river would divert traffic away from the old established centres to the north. The straightening of dangerous bends and the replacement of an old bridge between Bassendean and Guildford were also to be considered.[37][38] The conference, held on 7 September 1934, was attended by representatives of the Perth, Bayswater, Bassendean, and Guildford road boards, and the Midland Junction Council. Guildford and Midland Junction were still opposed to the renaming, but the others were supportive. Motions that passed included submitting a rename proposal to the state government, urging the government to construct a new bridge at Bassendean, and approaching the government to have the road declared a main road.[39]
In November 1934, the state government Land Council contacted the local governments on the south side of the Swan River, asking them to rename the roads that make up the Causeway–Midland route as Great Eastern Highway. Both the
Another conference of the local governments north of the river was held in December 1934. They decided to continue to pursue renaming the Perth–Guildford road to Great Eastern Highway, and having it gazetted as a main road. A letter from the Commissioner of Main Roads had stated that the road through Belmont was considered the principal highway to the eastern states. He therefore recommended that if the name Great Eastern Highway were to be applied west of Midland Junction, it should be to that road, as the road through Bassendean was not considered a main road. Traffic counts collected by the Bassendean Road Board, however, showed that the north of river route, through Bassendean, carried more traffic in both directions than the southern route, through Belmont – 54% compared to 46%.[43] The northern route was also shorter by about two miles (3.2 km), and considered by the local governments to be the "natural entrance to the city", only crossing the Swan River once and not again at the Causeway.[44]
On 8 January 1935, representatives from the local governments north of the river urged Minister for Lands,
On 14 April 1938, the name Great Eastern Highway was gazetted, in accordance with section 10 of the Land Act, 1933–1937. It replaced the names previously used along the route: Ascot Road, Guildford Road, York Road, Guildford–Northam Road, Toodyay–Northam Road, Mitchell Avenue, Throsell Road, Sermon Road, Dreyer Road, Goldfields Road, Kalgoorlie Road, Woodward Street, and Coolgardie Road.[3]
Upgrades and improvements
By 1950, the highway had been sealed from Perth to Southern Cross, and from a few miles west of Coolgardie to Kalgoorlie. Traffic in the Goldfields was light, with an average daily traffic of 44 vehicles between Southern Cross and Coolgardie, and 33 from Coolgardie to Kalgoorlie. The road was completely sealed by 1953.[47]: 151–52 Between 1954 and 1956, sections of the highway between Perth and Southern Cross were improved. The works included increasing the seal width along 38 miles (61 km) of the road, reconstructing 3 miles (5 km) of road, and resealing 23.5 miles (37.8 km). Precast concrete structures were used to replace two old, narrow wooden bridges.[47]: 149
In the 1950s, roundabouts were constructed at each end of The Causeway, to improve the flow of traffic on the bridges and the distribution of traffic back into the road network.[47]: 127 The roundabout at the eastern end, connecting with Great Eastern Highway, opened in 1952.[47]: 129–30 In 1973 construction began on upgrading that intersection to a grade-separated partial cloverleaf interchange. The interchange opened on 8 March 1974, having cost AUS$1.3 million.[47]: 258
A major accident occurred at the intersection with Roe Highway on 30 December 1993. A truck lost control coming down Greenmount Hill and rolled over at the intersection, after crashing into six vehicles on the hill and another 14 at the intersection. One woman was killed, and another 12 people were injured, including four with serious injuries. It was Western Australia's worst accident that year, according to police, with the aftermath described by a witness as "like a battlefield".
In 1994, the federal government approved a $43.9 million project to upgrade substandard sections of Great Eastern Highway between Northam and Southern Cross. That portion of the highway was one of the oldest sections of the National Highway in Western Australia. The road was susceptible to failure due to poor drainage and frequent flooding.[47]: 387 Further works in the 1990s saw a second carriageway constructed from Mundaring to Sawyers Valley, and then extended to The Lakes at the edge of Perth. A dual carriageway was also constructed in Kalgoorlie, and a long overtaking lane was built near Clackline.[50]: 28
More recent works have improved sections of the highway in Perth. Great Eastern Highway's intersection with Roe Highway was upgraded to a grade separated interchange. The design is a diamond interchange, with free-flowing traffic on Roe Highway, and an additional looped ramp for northbound to eastbound traffic movements. Construction of the $101.5 million project began in late 2010, and the interchange was officially opened to traffic on 9 June 2012.[51][52] Another project undertaken was the widening of the highway through the suburbs of Rivervale, Belmont and Redcliffe – between Kooyong Road, just north-east of the Graham Farmer Freeway interchange, and Tonkin Highway. Work commenced in June 2011, and was completed in February 2013,[53] nine months earlier than scheduled.[54] Prime Minister Julia Gillard opened the upgraded highway on 28 March 2013, participating in a ribbon-cutting ceremony.[55] The $280 million upgrade included construction of a median strip, widening the road to three lanes in each direction, bus priority lanes at several traffic light controlled intersections, and bicycle lanes.[53] The upgrade was expected to reduce congestion along the highway,[54] which had been one of Perth's worst accident spots in 2011/12.[56] However, the accidents were usually not serious, and roadworks were considered a "major contributing factor".[57] In October 2013, the project was recognised with the Civil Contractors Federation National Earth Award for Excellence.[58]
Bypasses
Great Eastern Highway Bypass, together with Roe Highway, provides a limited-access bypass of Guildford and Midland town sites. The 5.6-kilometre (3.5 mi) bypass branches off the original highway alignment at South Guildford, proceeds around the northern edge of Perth Airport, and then heads east through Hazelmere. At the eastern end of Great Eastern Highway Bypass, traffic returns to the main highway by heading north on Roe Highway for three kilometres (1.9 mi).[59] Plans for a major highway along a similar alignment date back to Gordon Stephenson and Alistair Hepburn's 1955 "Plan for the Metropolitan Region", which was the precursor of Perth's Metropolitan Region Scheme.[60] The road was constructed in the late 1980s, and was known as the Redcliffe–Bushmead Highway during construction.[61] Great Eastern Highway Bypass was opened on 14 May 1988, after 21 months of construction, and at a cost of $10 million.[47]: 358
Planning for a bypass around Northam began in the 1960s. The original route through the town centre functioned as both a local access road and primary traffic route, including for heavy vehicles. There were particular concerns with the amount of traffic congestion, frequency of crashes, and the noise and visual pollution of the highway's traffic. Twelve different alignments were considered for the bypass, which were narrowed down to three options by the 1990s.[62] In 1993 the Environmental Protection Authority assessed the proposal, and found that only the route that deviated furthest away from the townsite would be environmentally acceptable. The closer routes were not acceptable due to the potential impact on the Avon River. The project gained the Minister for the Environment's conditional approval on 24 June 1994.[63] Construction of the Northam bypass began in January 2001,[64][65] with the new road opened on 17 May 2002.[66]
A bypass of Clackline was also constructed, realigning 1.5 kilometres (0.93 mi) of Great Eastern Highway 100 metres (330 ft) north of the town.[67] Works began in January 2007, and were completed in February 2008. The project also involved constructing overtaking lanes between Clackline and Bakers Hill, upgrading intersections in Clackline, and constructing a pedestrian underpass for a heritage trail.[68] Clackline Brook was realigned through a large box culvert,[68] allowing a safer crossing than the narrow Clackline Bridge on the original alignment.[69] The bypass was originally allocated $2.4 million of funding in 2006,[70] but by January 2007 it was expected to cost almost $11 million.[67] The final project value was $9.2 million. Issues and challenges in the project's design and construction included extensive rock protection requirements for the Clackline Brook culvert, drilling and blasting close to the existing highway, and protecting heritage and environmentally sensitive areas.[67][68] The Clackline community welcomed the bypass,[67] but there were concerns that the historic Clackline Bridge would be lost.[70] The bridge has since received a permanent entry on the Heritage Council of Western Australia's Register of Heritage Places, in November 2008.[71]
Future
There are long-term plans to bypass Great Eastern Highway's current ascent of the Darling Scarp. Planning for a new major road network in Perth's eastern corridor began in the 1970s. Early planning efforts between 1978 and 1981 for a new highway reservation from Mundaring to Wooroloo encountered community opposition, and the
Major intersections
LGA[77][78][79] | Location[77] | km[1] | mi | Destinations[78][79] | Notes |
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Grade separated; no access into Albany Highway, nor northwest bound to northeast bound; National Highway 94 western terminus; National Route 1 continues southwest and northeast | |||||
Victoria Park– Joondalup, Welshpool | Diamond interchange with additional southwest bound to northwest bound loop ramp | ||||
Belmont | Ascot–Belmont boundary | 4.35 | 2.70 | Stoneham Street (State Route 55) north / Belgravia Street (State Route 55) southeast – Bayswater, Kewdale | |
Ascot–Redcliffe boundary | 6.34– 6.62 | 3.94– 4.11 | Tonkin Highway northbound ramps (State Route 4) – Morley | Diamond interchange with additional eastbound to southbound loop ramp | |
Tonkin Highway southbound ramps (State Route 4) – Armadale, Perth Airport | Brearley Avenue provided direct access to the T3/T4 airport precinct until 2018. | ||||
7.80 | 4.85 | Fauntleroy Avenue – Perth Airport | Main access to the T3/T4 airport precinct. | ||
Fremantle | T junction; National Highway 94 eastern concurrency terminus; eastbound traffic turns north via slip road; westbound traffic turns west | ||||
10.02 | 6.23 | Kalamunda Road – Kalamunda | |||
Helena River | 10.48– 10.57 | 6.51– 6.57 | Bridge over river | ||
Swan | Guildford | 10.57 | 6.57 | Eastbound traffic continues north on Johnson Street, westbound traffic continues south on Great Eastern Highway | |
11.26 | 7.00 | James Street (State Route 51) west – Bassendean, Midland | T junction; State Route 51 western concurrency terminus; eastbound traffic turns east onto James Street, westbound traffic turns south onto Johnson Street | ||
11.52 | 7.16 | Meadow Street (State Route 52) to West Swan Road – Ellenbrook, Swan Valley | |||
12.25 | 7.61 | Eastbound traffic continues north on East Street, westbound traffic continues west on James Street | |||
12.93 | 8.03 | Terrace Road (Tourist Drive 203) west – Guildford | Tourist Drive 203 western concurrency terminus; eastbound traffic turns north-east onto Great Eastern Highway, westbound traffic turns south onto East Street | ||
Woodbridge–Midland boundary | 14.29 | 8.88 | Morrison Road (National Route 1 north / Tourist Drive 203 north) – Midland, Middle Swan, Swan District Hospital | National Route 1 and Tourist Drive 203 eastern concurrency termini | |
Midland | 15.97 | 9.92 | Lloyd Street – Midland, Middle Swan | ||
Swan–Mundaring boundary | Midvale | 17.18– 17.38 | 10.68– 10.80 | Roe Highway (National Highway 94 south / National Highway 95 north / State Route 3) – to Great Northern Highway, Perth, Kewdale, Armadale | Modified diamond interchange (Roe Highway free flowing) with additional northbound to eastbound loop ramp; route transition: State Route 51 eastern terminus; National Highway 94 continues east |
Mundaring | Mundaring | 31.20 | 19.39 | Mundaring Weir Road (Tourist Drive 207) south / Stoneville Road north – Mundaring Weir, Stoneville, Gidgegannup | |
Sawyers Valley | 34.77 | 21.61 | Sawyers Road – Mount Helena | ||
41.33 | 25.68 | Old Northam Road – Chidlow | |||
Beechina–The Lakes boundary | 47.26 | 29.37 | Great Southern Highway – York | ||
Beechina–Wooroloo boundary | 52.68 | 32.73 | Old Northam Road – Wooroloo | ||
Northam | Copely–Wundowie boundary | 62.05 | 38.56 | Hawke Avenue north – Wundowie | |
Clackline | 77.06 | 47.88 | Spencers Brook Road to Clackline–Toodyay Road – Spencers Brook, Muresk, Toodyay | ||
Burlong | 89.14 | 55.39 | Mitchell Avenue – Northam | ||
92.30 | 57.35 | Grade separated interchange with a single ramp | |||
Avon River | 93.01– 93.25 | 57.79– 57.94 | Bridge over river | ||
Northam | Irishtown | 94.89 | 58.96 | Irishtown Road – Northam, Bejoording | Grade separated interchange with a single ramp |
Irishtown– Northam–Pithara Road (State Route 115) – Northam, Goomalling | Grade separated interchange with a single ramp | ||||
Malabaine | 100.84 | 62.66 | Yilgarn Avenue – Northam | ||
Cunderdin | Meckering | 129.84 | 80.68 | Dunlop Street to Goomalling–Meckering Road northwest / to Dowerin–Meckering Road northeast – Goomalling, Dowerin | |
Cunderdin | 152.51 | 94.77 | Baxter Road to Cunderdin–Wyalkatchem Road – Wyalkatchem | ||
153.50 | 95.38 | Cubbine Street to Cunderdin–Quairading Road – Quairading | |||
Tammin | Tammin | 176.77 | 109.84 | Station Road to Tammin–Wyalkatchem Road north / to Goldfields Road south – Wyalkatchem, York | |
Kellerberrin | Kellerberrin | 199.58– 200.27 | 124.01– 124.44 | Bencubbin–Kellerberrin Road north via West Crossing Road / East Crossing Road – Trayning, Bencubbin | Pair of T junctions |
199.67 | 124.07 | Scott Road south to Kellerberrin–Yoting Road – Yoting, York | T junction | ||
Doodlakine | 215.6 | 134.0 | Doodlakine–Bruce Rock Road – Doodlakine | ||
Merredin–Nungarin Road – Nungarin, Wyalkatchem | |||||
257.07 | 159.74 | South Avenue to Bruce Rock Merredin Road – Bruce Rock | |||
259.88 | 161.48 | Merredin–Narembeen Road – Narembeen, Muntadgin, Hyden | |||
Westonia | Walgoolan | 291.55 | 181.16 | Warralakin Road – Warralakin | |
Carrabin | 299.68 | 186.21 | Carrabin South Road / Westonia Road north – Westonia | ||
Bullfinch Road / Marvel Loch Road southeast – Bullfinch, Marvel Loch | |||||
Coolgardie | Coolgardie | 554.43 | 344.51 | Coolgardie–Esperance Highway (National Highway 94) – Norseman, Esperance | Route transition: National Highway 94 continues west and south; Alternate National Route 94 western terminus |
Kalgoorlie-Boulder | West Kalgoorlie–Yilkari boundary | 586.17 | 364.23 | Anzac Drive southeast / West Kalgoorlie Road northwest – South Boulder, West Kalgoorlie | |
Somerville | 588.3 | 365.6 | Gatacre Drive – Boulder, Kalgoorlie-Boulder Airport | ||
589.3 | 366.2 | Eastbound traffic continues east on Hannan Street, westbound traffic continues west on Great Eastern Highway | |||
Kalgoorlie | 592.29 | 368.03 | Maritana Street north / Boulder Road south – Hannans, Boulder | ||
Kalgoorlie–Williamstown boundary | 592.82 | 368.36 | Goldfields Highway (Alternate National Route 94 south) – Menzies, Leonora, Kambalda | Eastern highway terminus; Alternate National Route 94 continues south | |
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi
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See also
Notes
- ^ The How Safe are our Roads? Rating Australia’s National Network for Risk report referred to by the RAC[7] defines a casualty crash as "any road crash in which at least one person is killed or injured and this includes serious injuries which typically represent one third of casualty crashes".[8]
- ^ Later known as the State Planning Commission, now the Western Australian Planning Commission
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External links
- Media related to Great Eastern Highway at Wikimedia Commons
- Great Eastern Highway travel guide from Wikivoyage
- State Library of Western Australia Pictorial collection of historical Great Eastern Highway photographs