Gungahlin Drive
Gungahlin Drive is an arterial road in Canberra, Australia. It is 12.5 km (8 mi) long, and serves as one of the major thoroughfares in the Gungahlin district, before becoming a parkway standard roadway south of the Barton Highway, this high quality section was built as the major part of the Gungahlin Drive Extension project.
Route description
The route begins at roundabout that forms the end of Clarrie Hermes Drive, and Horse Park Drive. It heads in a roughly south-easterly direction, passing by several suburbs, and becoming dual carriageway to the east of Gundaroo Drive. It then crosses between the Mulanggari and Gungaderra Grasslands and heads in a southerly direction along the western edge of the Mitchell industrial area. It then switches to a southwesterly heading and crosses over the Barton Highway, the interchange at this location also marks the start of the parkway standard section of the roadway. Continuing south-west the road crosses Ginninderra Drive and traverses the Bruce Ridge, before reaching its terminus at the Belconnen Way interchange. The roadway crosses over Belconnen Way and continues on as Caswell Drive towards Glenloch Interchange.
Junctions
Gungahlin Drive has multiple junctions along its length providing access to suburbs and facilities in the Gungahlin and Belconnen districts as well as the Inner North, there are links to several other arterial roads.[1][2]
| District | Location | km | mi | Destinations | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gungahlin | - | 0 | 0.0 | Horse Park Drive / Clarrie Hermes Drive | Roundabout |
| - | 0.7 | 0.43 | Wanganeen Avenue / Kelleway Avenue | Roundabout | |
| - | 1.5 | 0.93 | Amagula Avenue / Lexcen Avenue | Roundabout | |
| - | 2.3 | 1.4 | Gundaroo Drive | ||
| - | 2.6 | 1.6 | Kosciuszko Avenue / The Valley Avenue | ||
| - | 3.4 | 2.1 | Kosciuszko Avenue | ||
| - | 5.0 | 3.1 | Well Station Drive | ||
| - | 6.5 | 4.0 | Sandford Street | ||
| Gungahlin, Belconnen | Mitchell, Kaleen | 7.4 | 4.6 |  Barton Highway (A25) – City, Hall, Yass, North Canberra, Gungahlin | Modified diamond interchange with single cloverleaf, signal-controlled access onto Barton Highway |
| Belconnen | Kaleen, Bruce | 9.8 | 6.1 | Ginninderra Drive – Lyneham, North Canberra, Belconnen, Australian Institute of Sport, Canberra Stadium | Diamond interchange, signal-controlled access onto Ginninderra Drive |
| Belconnen, Canberra Central | Bruce, Aranda | 12.5 | 7.8 |  Belconnen Way – City, Belconnen, Calvary Hospital | Freeway-over SPUI, with additional U-turn ramps.; Gungahlin Drive Terminus; roadway continues as Gungahlin Drive Extension |
| 1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi | |||||
See also
References
- ^ Google Maps - Gungahlin Drive, Google, accessed 18 April 2013
- ^ ACTMAPi Archived 2013-07-02 at the Wayback Machine, ACT Government, accessed 18 April 2013
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