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Rockingham Road is a major road between Fremantle and Kwinana in the southern suburbs of Perth. It is allocated National Route 1 – part of Australia's national Highway 1 – between Stock Road in Munster and its southern terminus in Kwinana.[1]
Rockingham Road | |
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| Rockingham Road in Hamilton Hill | |
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| General information | |
| Type | Highway |
| Length | 20 km (12 mi) |
| Route number(s) |  National Route 1 (South of Stock Road) |
| Major junctions | |
| North end | Hampton Road, South Fremantle |
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| South end | Patterson Road (National Route 1), Kwinana Beach |
| Location(s) | |
| Major suburbs | Hamilton Hill, Spearwood, Munster, Wattleup, Naval Base |
| Highway system | |
The first part of Rockingham Road is a main road and suburban distributor that goes from the southern edge of Fremantle into Hamilton Hill and Spearwood, passing the Phoenix Park shopping centre and the offices of the City of Cockburn. It then leaves the urban area (but not the metropolitan area).
After becoming Highway 1, Rockingham Road acquires a very wide median strip - at one point the northbound and southbound lanes are 180 metres apart. The road then passes the small towns of Wattleup and Hope Valley before entering the Kwinana heavy industrial area in Naval Base and Kwinana Beach.
After the intersection with Mandurah Road it changes name to Patterson Road and continues on to the city of Rockingham.
Major intersections
editAll intersections below are controlled by traffic signals unless otherwise indicated.
| LGA | Location | km | mi | Destinations | Notes |
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| Fremantle–Cockburn boundary | Beaconsfield–Hamilton Hill–South Fremantle tripoint | 0 | 0.0 | Northwestern terminus at signalised T-junction | |
| Cockburn | Hamilton Hill | 1.2 | 0.75 | Forrest Road – Coolbellup, Bibra Lake | Unsignalised LILO junction |
| 1.7 | 1.1 | Carrington Street (north) / Hamilton Road (south) – Hilton, Palmyra, Lake Coogee | |||
| Hamilton Hill–Spearwood boundary | 2.8 | 1.7 | Phoenix Road – Bibra Lake | Planned to be converted to a roundabout[2] | |
| Spearwood | 3.1 | 1.9 | Lancaster Street | ||
| 3.8 | 2.4 | ||||
| Lake Coogee | 6.7 | 4.2 | Mayor Road (west) / Beeliar Drive (east) – Coogee, Beeliar, Cockburn Central, Armadale | Roundabout. Beeliar Drive replaced a connection to Yangebup Road in 2009 | |
| Beeliar–Lake Coogee boundary | 7.8 | 4.8 | Unsignalised T-junction. Northbound traffic turns left, southbound traffic turns right. National Route 1 northern concurrency terminus | ||
| Munster–Wattleup–Henderson tripoint | 8.8– 9.0 | 5.5– 5.6 | Russell Road – Fremantle, North Coogee, Success, Atwell | Staggered signalised intersections favouring Rockingham Road. | |
| Wattleup–Henderson boundary | 12.4 | 7.7 | Wattleup Road – Wattleup, Hammond Park, Aubin Grove | Unsignalised T-intersection. Access to Kwinana Freeway via Rowley Road | |
| Kwinana | Hope Valley–Naval Base boundary | 14.1 | 8.8 | Hope Valley Road – Hope Valley | Unsignalised T-intersection. |
| Naval Base | 14.7 | 9.1 | |||
| 16.0 | 9.9 | Beard Street (west) / Lee Road (east) | |||
| Naval Base–Hope Valley–Kwinana Beach tripoint | 16.5 | 10.3 | Anketell Road – Postans, Anketell, Oakford | ||
| Kwinana Beach–Medina boundary | 18.3 | 11.4 | Access to Tonkin and South Western Highways | ||
| Kwinana Beach | 20 | 12 | Mason Road north/Mandurah Road south – East Rockingham, Kwinana Beach, Baldivis, Karnup | Southern terminus, continues as | |
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See also
editReferences
edit- ^ Distance book (12 ed.). Main Roads Western Australia. 2012. pp. 4–5. ISBN 0 7309 7657 2. Retrieved 31 December 2013.
- ^ "Rockingham Road - Phoenix Road - HAMILTON HILL - 105963-20WA-BS". Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Communications. Retrieved 21 December 2021.