Beaufort Street is a major road in the inner north-eastern suburbs of
Perth
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, Western Australia, connecting the
Morley area to the
Perth central business district
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. For most of its length, it is a single-carriageway, two-way road with two lanes in each direction.
The street played host to the community focused
Beaufort Street Festival from 2010 to 2015. In 2013, over 120,000 people attended the festival, making it one of Perth's largest street festivals.
Route description
Beaufort Street begins at Wellington Street in the CBD, continuing north from
Barrack Street
Barrack Street is one of two major cross-streets in the central business district of Perth, Western Australia. Together with St Georges Terrace, Wellington Street and William Street it defines the boundary of the main shopping precinct of th ...
. It heads northeast towards the
Morley area, terminating in a cul de sac near Coode Street. Another section of Beaufort St runs between Coode Street and Drake Street. It is part of
State Route 53, which connects
The Esplanade in Perth, near
The Bell Tower, to
Tonkin Highway
Tonkin Highway is an north–south highway and partial freeway in Perth, Western Australia, linking Perth Airport and Kewdale, Western Australia, Kewdale with the city's north-eastern and south-eastern suburbs. As of April 2020, the northern ...
in
Cullacabardee, at the southern edge of
Whiteman Park
Whiteman Park is a bushland area located north of Perth, Western Australia. The park is in the suburb of Whiteman, Western Australia, Whiteman, in the Swan Valley (Western Australia), Swan Valley in the upper reaches of the Swan River (Weste ...
.
Beaufort Street is a popular shopping and eating strip, especially in
Mount Lawley
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and
Inglewood Inglewood may refer to:
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. The
Astor Cinema is also on Beaufort Street.
It is one of the most heavily patronised bus corridors in Perth, served by Transperth's most frequent suburban bus route 950 and limited stops route 66 for its entire length, and by routes 67 and 68 between Perth and
Grand Promenade
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, Bedford.
History
Beaufort Street has existed since at least 1848. The road was macadamised in 1870. The road was initially built to service the
Mount Lawley
Mount is often used as part of the name of specific mountains, e.g. Mount Everest.
Mount or Mounts may also refer to:
Places
* Mount, Cornwall, a village in Warleggan parish, England
* Mount, Perranzabuloe, a hamlet in Perranzabuloe parish, Co ...
area in the early 19th century.
In 1907, work began on reconstructing the
Beaufort Street Bridge
Barrack Street Bridge is the second crossing of the Eastern Railway line at its location just north of the Barrack Street intersection with Wellington Street at the eastern end of the Perth Railway Station yard in Perth, Western Australia. Des ...
, which connected the road to Wellington Street over the railway line.
In 1929, the Town Planning Commission viewed Beaufort Street to be an important arterial road in the future, and agreed with the
Bayswater Road Board
The City of Bayswater is a Local government areas of Western Australia, local government area in the Western Australian capital city of Perth, about northeast of Perth central business district, Perth's central business district. The city cove ...
's plans to extend the road through to Collier Road by resuming land.
Between Wellington Street and
Brisbane Street, it was a one-way road, as the continuation of
Barrack Street
Barrack Street is one of two major cross-streets in the central business district of Perth, Western Australia. Together with St Georges Terrace, Wellington Street and William Street it defines the boundary of the main shopping precinct of th ...
, with southbound traffic directed along Brisbane Street onto
William Street.
From 7 April 2013, two-way traffic was reintroduced along Beaufort Street. The project also introduced part-time bus lanes, operational (in one direction) during peak times, and available for parking at other times.
Beaufort Street was widened between Central Avenue, Inglewood and Queens Crescent, Mount Lawley. The project was expected to take ten months to complete, from July 2013 to April 2014. Beaufort Street's intersection with Central Avenue was also upgraded, with additional turning lanes and modified traffic light signals. The works enabled the road lanes to be reconfigured as one bus priority lane plus one traffic lane in each direction. A new central median island prevents right turns at most locations along the road.
Major intersections
All intersections listed are signalised unless otherwise mentioned.
See also
References
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Roads in Perth, Western Australia
Mount Lawley, Western Australia