26-520: Southeast Freeway , South Eastern Freeway , South East Freeway , or Southeast Expressway may refer to: Australia [ edit ] South Eastern Freeway , a freeway running southeast from Adelaide to Murray Bridge in South Australia, part of the national M1 route South Eastern Freeway, a freeway amalgamated with the Mulgrave Freeway to create
52-590: A certain speed; this was made worse with brake failures. It took some time, and the addition of several warning signs prior to the descent, for heavy vehicles to become familiar with the freeway's characteristics. Semi-trailers can be seen travelling as slow as 20–30 km/h downhill. In 2005 changeable electronic road signs were installed every 200 metres, so that the speed limit of the road can be adjusted from Transport SA headquarters in Adelaide . This has both improved safety for commuters, and emergency service workers like
78-516: A major heavy road transport route through suburban Adelaide from Port Adelaide to the South East of South Australia and the adjacent state of Victoria . Portrush Road was named by Nathaniel A. Knox after Portrush in Northern Ireland. Knox owned land near the intersection with Greenhill Road , in the area now occupied by the suburbs of Glenunga and Glenside . In a 1949 street directory,
104-440: A sewage truck lost control after passing the arrestor beds. The driver was a new employee, who had never driven a manual truck before, and had never driven any vehicle on this segment of road. Driver Darren Hicks was seriously injured and testified against employer Cleanaway at a criminal trial after being granted immunity. The prosecution, brought by Comcare , heard that the brakes on the vehicle were defective. In 2021 Cleanaway
130-612: A six-lane, dual-carriageway route. As it traverses across – and through, in one section, via the Heysen Tunnels – the Adelaide Hills , and due the fact the freeway is a major freight route, it also features arrester beds and concrete median barriers, with street lighting between Glen Osmond and Crafers. The freeway narrows to four lanes just before it bypasses Crafers , and continues in a south-easterly direction, past Stirling , Hahndorf and Mount Barker , before narrowing further to
156-561: A two-lane, single-carriageway, crossing the Murray River over the Swanport Bridge , to terminate just east of the crossing in Long Flat , south-east of Murray Bridge . Prior to the initial construction of the freeway in the 1960s, inbound and outbound road traffic between Adelaide and south-eastern South Australia or Victoria used a two-lane highway originally built in the early part of
182-519: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages South Eastern Freeway South Eastern Freeway is a 73 km (45 mi) freeway in South Australia (SA). It is a part of the National Highway network linking the state capital cities of Adelaide , SA, and Melbourne , Victoria , and is signed as route M1 . It carries traffic over
208-515: The Adelaide Hills between Adelaide and the River Murray , near Murray Bridge , where it is connected via the Swanport Bridge to the Dukes Highway , which is the main road route to Victoria. It was formerly signposted as Princes Highway , which refers to the coastal route from Adelaide to Sydney via Melbourne . It is often referred to by South Australians simply as the freeway , as it
234-474: The Country Fire Service . In 2010 and 2011, after more incidents involving trucks having problems successfully braking down the hill, including one going into a bus stop, and another going straight through the intersection at the bottom, the government added new laws that any vehicle with 5 axles or more must stay in the left lane and must not exceed a 60 km/h limit from the interchange at Crafers to
260-660: The Monash Freeway , a freeway in Victoria, Australia Southeast Freeway, the first section of the Pacific Motorway (Brisbane–Brunswick Heads) , opened in 1972, Queensland, Australia United States [ edit ] Southeast Freeway (Baltimore) , a Maryland highway designated I-695 and MD 702 Southeast Expressway (Massachusetts) , designated I-93, US 1, and Route 3 Southeast Freeway (Washington, D.C.) , designated I-695, as well as an unbuilt extension into Maryland as
286-572: The Princes Highway , including: Shortly after the Adelaide–Crafers section opened, several incidents involving semi-trailers drew media attention to the road. While the previous Mount Barker Road was a notorious stretch, its dangers were well known; the new freeway presented the new challenge of a sustained continuous gradient with traffic lights at the bottom. Heavy vehicles with inadequate braking found it hard to slow down once they had exceeded
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#1732852491489312-733: The River Torrens and changing name again to Lower Portrush Road, before intersecting with Payneham Road . It continues south as Portrush Road through Adelaide's inner eastern suburbs to eventually terminate with the western end of the South Eastern Freeway in Glen Osmond . Portrush road carries approximately 36,000 vehicles per day, including heavy freight trucks. It is an authorised route for trucks up to 26 metres (85 ft) B-double and 25 metres (82 ft) vehicle carrier size. Along with Grand Junction Road, Portrush Road constitutes
338-678: The Victorian border and beyond as Western Highway . Portrush Road Portrush Road is a major arterial route through the eastern suburbs of Adelaide , the capital of South Australia . This name covers many consecutive streets and is not widely known to most drivers except for the southernmost section, as the entire allocation is still best known as by the names of its constituent parts: Hampstead Road , Taunton Road , Ascot Avenue , Lower Portrush Road , and Portrush Road proper. Formerly, there were also sections known as Kensington Terrace and Wellington Road . This article will deal with
364-522: The 20th century. With growth in Adelaide's population, issues of congestion and safety mandated reconstruction. Studies began in 1962 for a freeway commencing from Crafers, that endpoint selected arguably due to the massive expenditure required with the precedent upgrade of the Mount Barker Road . Construction began in 1965 from Crafers. The first stage of eastbound traffic lanes were opened in 1967, and
390-687: The Mount Barker Road, which had been contoured to the Adelaide Hills, giving rise to many steep turns, ascending a tortuous route. The tightest hairpin turn on the Mount Barker Road was infamous as the Devil's Elbow , often the site of car and semi-trailer accidents. On 16 May 1995, Prime Minister Paul Keating announced the construction of the new Adelaide-Crafers section. The Heysen Tunnels , named after well-known South Australian artist and benefactor Hans Heysen , were completed in 1998. Construction
416-772: The Mount Barker interchange to service growing housing estates in southern Mount Barker and Nairne . Bardavcol started construction in May 2015, with the interchange including entry and exit ramps in both directions. The $ 27mil project was funded with $ 16mil by the Federal Government, $ 8mil by the Government of South Australia and $ 3mil from the Mount Barker District Council . The new interchange opened on 15 August 2016. The Freeway bypasses many towns previously along
442-543: The Southeast Expressway [REDACTED] Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles about roads and streets with the same name. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Southeast_Freeway&oldid=1109507979 " Category : Road disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
468-660: The entire length of the corridor for sake of completion, as well to avoid confusion between declarations. Portrush Road (including all its constituent roads) is designated route A17. The Portrush Road corridor runs north–south through Adelaide's eastern and south-eastern suburbs, to the foot of the Adelaide Hills at its southern end. From its intersection with Grand Junction Road in Northfield , it runs south as Hampstead Road through to Manningham , where it turns southeast into Taunton Road to intersect with North East Road , changing name to Ascot Avenue and continuing southeast, crossing
494-531: The first westbound section opened in 1969. The freeway was opened in stages as construction progressed. The final section bypassing the town of Murray Bridge and connecting to the new Swanport Bridge over the River Murray opened in 1979, providing an alternative to the historic bridge in Murray Bridge. The Adelaide–Crafers Highway extension came as a much-needed upgrade and replacement to the previous link road,
520-455: The freeway, near Murray Bridge , feeds onto the Swanport Bridge , a two-lane, 1-kilometre-long (0.62 mi) bridge over the River Murray , where it joins Princes Highway , a dual-carriageway highway to Tailem Bend . At this point, Highway 1 becomes a two-laned, two-way scenic route which passes through many coastal towns of South Australia and Victoria. The National Highway continues to Melbourne as Dukes Highway (A8) from Tailem Bend to
546-410: The old tollhouse. More safety cameras were installed in an attempt to ensure trucks abide by this new limit. Additional signs for the two arrester beds on the descent have been added, to encourage out of control drivers to use them as a safer alternative. In August 2014, another truck descending the hills collided with cars at the intersection of Glen Osmond Road. Two people were killed. A driver of
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#1732852491489572-850: The other side of North East Road. The nearest bridge over the River Torrens was the Felixstow Bridge on Felixstow Road, which is now O.G. Road. Lower Portrush Road and the bridge across the Torrens was opened in November 1970. Had the Metropolitan Adelaide Transport Study of the 1960s progressed, a Hills Freeway would have been constructed to link the South Eastern Freeway to the Port of Adelaide. This would have subsequently removed
598-490: The southern end of Portrush Road had its current route to Kensington Road . North of Kensington Road, it took the name Kensington Terrace, then Wellington Road north of the Magill Road intersection to Payneham Road . What is now Lower Portrush Road (including the bridge over the River Torrens ) did not exist at all. Ascot Avenue was a minor street running off of North East Road which did not exactly line up with Taunton Road on
624-575: Was completed in early 2000. In March 2000, Prime Minister John Howard opened the new road. It was the largest South Australian road project at that time, costing A$ 151 million, wholly funded by the Australian Federal Government . An additional exit was built at Monarto around 1999 to service an expanding commercial zone and the Monarto Zoo in the area. Another exit was announced in 2014 at Bald Hills Road, 4 km southeast of
650-437: Was convicted of eight charges under health and safety legislation. The Adelaide end of South Eastern Freeway leads downhill to traffic lights at the intersection of Glen Osmond Road which continues northwest as route number A1 into the Adelaide city centre , Portrush Road north to bypass the city and towards Port Adelaide, and Cross Road which leads west towards the southern suburbs of Adelaide. The southeastern end of
676-545: Was the first freeway in South Australia, and is still the longest, and the only one with "Freeway" in its name rather than "Expressway" or "Highway". South Eastern Freeway includes 500 m (1,600 ft) twin-tube tunnels – the Heysen Tunnels – in the descent towards Adelaide, the first of their kind on the National Highway. South Eastern Freeway commences at the intersection with Glen Osmond Road , Cross Road and Portrush Road in Glen Osmond , and heads southeast as
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