Port River Expressway

Port River Expressway South Australia
General information
Type	Freeway
Length	5.5 km (3 mi)
Opened	2008
Route number(s)	A9
Major junctions
East end	Salisbury Highway, Wingfield, Adelaide
	North-South Motorway Nelson Street for full list see exits and intersections.
West end	Victoria Road, Birkenhead via Tom 'Diver' Derrick Bridge
Location(s)
Major suburbs / towns	Wingfield, Gillman, Port Adelaide & Birkenhead
Highway system
Highways in Australia National Highway • Freeways in Australia Highways in South Australia

The Port River Expressway is a 5.5-kilometre (3.4 mi) freeway-grade road. The expressway links Port Adelaide and the LeFevre Peninsula to the northern suburbs of Adelaide and major interstate routes via Salisbury Highway (A13) to Port Wakefield Road (A1) and the Max Fatchen Expressway (M20) to Perth and Sydney.

The expressway is only freeway grade at the North-South Motorway, Hanson Road and Eastern Parade interchanges; the following two intersections are at grade with traffic signals installed. This has led to the route being labelled as the A9, instead of the more common M label associated with freeways and expressways in South Australia.

Construction

The Port River Expressway was built in three stages:

• Stage 1 - Was opened for traffic on 19 July 2005. It consists of a 5.5-kilometre (3.4 mi) four-lane expressway link between Francis Street and the then South Road, Adelaide, now North-South Motorway; with an overpass at each of the junctions of the North-South Motorway, Hanson Road and Eastern Parade.
• Stage 2 - Consists of a four lane high-level, opening road bridge across the Port River between Docks 1 and 2, linking Stage 1 at Francis Street to Victoria Road on Le Fevre Peninsula. This section opened on 3 August 2008
• Stage 3 - Consists of a single track, dual gauge, high-level, opening rail bridge across the Port River, north of the road bridge, with connections to the existing rail system. Opened in June 2008.

The Port River Expressway is now a major thoroughfare for freight and passenger road traffic travelling from the northern suburbs to the major port facilities of South Australia in Port Adelaide and Outer Harbor. The construction of Stages 2 and 3 was carried out by Abigroup.

Exits and interchanges

The entire road is in the City of Port Adelaide Enfield local government area.

Location	km	mi	Destinations	Notes
Birkenhead	0	0	Nelson Street (A16) south / Victoria Road (A6) north – Port Adelaide, Semaphore, Outer Harbor	Western expressway terminus at traffic lights: continues as Victoria Road
Port River	0.5	0.31	Tom 'Diver' Derrick Bridge
Port Adelaide	1.0	0.6	Perkins Drive	Traffic light intersection
Port Adelaide–Gillman boundary	1.7	1.1	Eastern Parade –North Arm, Torrens Island, Ottoway
Dry Creek–Wingfield boundary	4.0	2.5	Hanson Road – Ottoway, Wingfield Waste & Recycling Centre
	5.5	3.4	North-South Motorway (M2) south / Salisbury Highway (National Highway A13) east – Regency Park, Adelaide, Salisbury, Port Wakefield	Eastern expressway terminus at trumpet interchange: continues as Salisbury Highway
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi

Gallery

• PREXYSouthRoad.jpg

  Port River Expressway approaching the South Road exit.

• PREXYPortAdelaide.jpg

  Port River Expressway approaching the Eastern Parade overpass heading east.

• TomDiverDerrickBridgeJuly08.jpg

  Tom Diver Derrick Bridge over the Port River.

• 

  The Mary MacKillop rail bridge, adjacent to the Tom "Diver" Derrick road bridge.

• Port expressway, dry creek.jpg

  At Dry Creek, travelling westwards

• Port expressway, south road.jpg

  Intersection with South Road

See also

• Freeways in Australia
• Freeways in South Australia
• Metropolitan Adelaide Transport Study

External links

• Transport SA - Port River Expressway