Salisbury Highway

Salisbury Highway (and its northern section as John Rice Avenue) is a 15 kilometre major connecting road in the northern suburbs of the Adelaide metropolitan area. It is designated part of route A9.

Salisbury Highway John Rice Avenue South Australia
Coordinates	34.832756°S 138.562418°E / -34.832756; 138.562418 (Southwest end) 34.746558°S 138.676511°E / -34.746558; 138.676511 (Northeast end)
General information
Type	Highway
Location	Adelaide
Length	15.2 km (9.4 mi)
Route number(s)	A9 (2017–present)
Former route number	National Highway A13 (1998–2017) (Wingfield–Dry Creek) A13 (1998–2017) (Dry Creek–Elizabeth Vale)
Major junctions
Southwest end	Port River Expressway Wingfield, Adelaide
	North-South Motorway Port Wakefield Road Kings Road
Northeast end	Main North Road Elizabeth Vale, Adelaide
Location(s)
Region	Western Adelaide, Northern Adelaide
Major suburbs	Dry Creek, Mawson Lakes, Parafield Gardens, Salisbury
Highway system
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Route

Salisbury Highway starts at the interchange with the North-South Motorway in Wingfield and heads east as a four-lane, dual-carriageway road and then north-east through the north-eastern suburbs of Adelaide, runs parallel to Main North Road from Mawson Lakes through Salisbury where it intersects with Commercial Road, changing name to John Rice Avenue and narrowing to a four-lane, single-carriageway road. It continues a short distance east to terminate with Main North Road in Elizabeth Vale.

History

Until the early 1990s, Salisbury Highway terminated at Port Wakefield Road. The Salisbury Highway Extension project built the bridge and interchange at Port Wakefield Road, and extended the highway to Wingfield, where it joined the north end of what was then the South Road Interconnector. Neither the Port River Expressway nor the North–South Motorway had been built at that time.

Salisbury Highway (and John Rice Avenue) was originally designated as part of route A13 when South Australia switched to the alpha-numeric road route system in 1998 (with Salisbury Highway between Port River Expressway and Port Wakefield Road was shown as part of National Highway A13 on local road signage and major street directory publications); it was replaced by route A9 in 2017.

Major intersections

LGA	Location	km	mi	Destinations	Notes
Port Adelaide Enfield	Dry Creek–Wingfield boundary	0.0	0.0	Port River Expressway (A9) – Port Adelaide	Western terminus of Salisbury Highway, route A9 continues west along Port River Expressway
				North–South Motorway (M2) – Waterloo Corner, Regency Park, Hindmarsh South Road – Wingfield
Salisbury	Dry Creek–Mawson Lakes boundary	4.6	2.9	Port Wakefield Road – Port Wakefield, Waterloo Corner, Gepps Cross
Dry Creek		5.1	3.2	Bridge over the river (bridge name unknown)
Salisbury	Mawson Lakes	5.9	3.7	Elder Smith Road – Mawson Lakes
	Salisbury Downs–Parafield Gardens boundary	9.0	5.6	Kings Road – Paralowie, Parafield, Para Hills
	Salisbury	11.2	7.0	Park Terrace (east) – Salisbury Waterloo Corner Road (northwest) – Burton
		11.6	7.2	Gawler and Adelaide–Port Augusta SG railway lines
Little Para River		11.8	7.3	Bridge over the river (bridge name unknown)
Salisbury–Playford boundary	Salisbury–Elizabeth South boundary	12.5	7.8	Commercial Road – Edinburgh, Salisbury	Name change: Salisbury Highway (southwest), John Rice Avenue (northeast)
Playford	Elizabeth South–Elizabeth Vale boundary	13.4	8.3	Philip Highway – Elizabeth
	Elizabeth Vale	15.2	9.4	Main North Road – Gawler, Elizabeth, Gepps Cross, North Adelaide	Northeastern terminus of John Rice Avenue and route A9
Incomplete access       Route transition

Gallery

• 
  Salisbury Highway, looking southwards at Parafield Gardens.
• 
  Intersection with Port Wakefield Road, looking southwards.

See also

Australian Roads portal

• Highways in Australia
• List of highways in South Australia