Beach Road is a major east–west

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in the northern suburbs of

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, Western Australia, connecting Perth's inner northern beachside suburbs and inland state housing areas with shopping and public transport facilities at

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and the Malaga industrial area. It was mostly built between 1967 and 1974, and is a dual carriageway for most of its length, except for a small western part between

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and the coast, which is a minor residential distributor road and is discontinuous at Marmion Avenue. Beach Road also serves as a local government boundary. From Alexander Drive to Wanneroo Road, Beach Road is the boundary with the

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on the northern side and the

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on the southern side. From Wanneroo Road to the coast Beach Road is the boundary with the City of Joondalup (part of

until 1998) on the northern side and the

on the southern side. Beach Road is unusual in two respects: despite its size and traffic levels, and the fact it crosses

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, it does not have entry or exit to the freewayone of only two major east-west roads not to do so (along with Scarborough Beach Road)and secondly, it was not assigned a

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when Main Roads Department introduced the State Route system in 1986. S

History

It was surveyed as Road No.246 by A. Crowther in 1900. It included modern-day Sandstone Place in Marmion and Treen Street in Balga, running purely east-west, and formed the boundary between the Wanneroo and Perth Road Districts (now the Cities of

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and Wanneroo, and the

). The road serviced a small number of rural grants around Lake Carine as well as the small coastal town of Marmion, which was gazetted in 1940. By 1968, two different parts of the road were impacted by development. The Hamersley Development Scheme had been approved on both sides of the road between Marmion Avenue and Wanneroo Road, while the State Housing Commission had commenced the Mirrabooka Satellite City development, which consisted mainly of housing construction in the

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and Girrawheen areas. The Shires of Perth and Wanneroo agreed to build a new road on the present alignment, and closed 95 chains () of the old road between what is now Glendale Avenue and Wanneroo Road. In 1974, the Warwick Grove Shopping Centre was built at the intersection of Erindale Road. A bus transfer station alongside the proposed

was constructed in the early 1980s, which was demolished in 1992 to construct

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. The construction of the

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in stages from 1988 to 2001 about further south for Beach Road's entire length provided an alternative for east-west traffic.

Major intersections

All intersections below are controlled by traffic lights unless otherwise indicated. File:Beach Road (W from Glendale Ave).ogv, View westbound from Glendale Avenue File:Beach Road (E from Wanneroo Road).ogv, View eastbound from Wanneroo Road

References

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History

Major intersections

See also

References