Warwick Road is an arterial east-west road located in the northern suburbs of

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. It was built in 1969 to service the Shire of Wanneroo parts of the Hamersley Development Scheme, which was later split into the suburbs of Duncraig,

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and Greenwood. Its original alignment, which was gazetted in 1949 as Road No. 10578 by the Wanneroo Road Board, was a straight east-west road extending to

Alexander Drive Alexander Drive is a major north–south arterial road in the northern suburbs of Perth, Western Australia, connecting Perth's central business district (CBD) with Edith Cowan University's Mount Lawley campus and the Malaga industrial area, a ...

, but in the mid-1970s, the alignment was altered southwards in the vicinity of the freeway alignment (the

Mitchell Freeway The Mitchell Freeway is a freeway in the northern suburbs of Perth, Western Australia, linking central Perth with the city of Joondalup. It is the northern section of State Route 2, which continues south as Kwinana Freeway and Forrest High ...

was not, however, built until 1986), and in the late 1970s, the section east of

Wanneroo Road Wanneroo Road is a arterial highway in the northern suburbs of Perth, Western Australia linking Joondanna and Yokine in the south with Wanneroo and Yanchep in the north. As part of State Route 60, it begins from Charles Street in the inner ...

was split off to form Marangaroo Drive. Apart from the Glengarry and Greenwood neighbourhood shopping centres, Warwick Road also passes Warwick Open Space east of

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and the Percy Doyle Reserve, which includes sports and recreation facilities and the Duncraig Library, near

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Major intersections

* Marmion Avenue (State Route 71),

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and * Chessell Drive, Duncraig * Lilburne Road, Duncraig * Glengarry Drive, Duncraig * Davallia Road, Duncraig *

(State Route 2), Duncraig, and * Dorchester Avenue, Warwick * Coolibah Drive, Greenwood * Ballantine Road, Warwick * Allenswood Road, Greenwood *

(State Route 77) south / Cockman Road north, Greenwood and Warwick * Wanneroo Road (State Route 60 / State Route 81 north), Greenwood, Warwick and Girrawheen

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