Connolly Drive, Perth

Infobox Australian Road | type = road
road_name = Connolly Drive
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photo = ConnollyDriveMissingLink.jpg
caption = Connolly Drive's missing link between Kinross and Clarkson which opened August 2007.
length = 15
direction = North-South
start = Shenton Avenue, Connolly
finish = Benenden Avenue, Butler
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through = Currambine, Kinross, Tamala Park, Clarkson, Merriwa
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exits = Moore Drive, Burns Beach Road, Hester Avenue

Overview

Connolly Drive is a major road in the northern suburbs of Perth, Australia. It extends in a north-south direction from a T-junction with Shenton Avenue in Currambine to Butler. A portion of Connolly Drive north of Kinross opened on 27th August 2007. [ [http://www.wanneroo.wa.gov.au/scripts/viewarticle.asp?NID=18205 City of Wanneroo - Connolly Drive Extension - Connecting Communities] ] [ [http://www.tamalapark.wa.gov.au/Documents%20for%20hyperlinking/13.44.657.0_2006_11_30_Council%20AGENDA.pdf TAMALA PARK REGIONAL COUNCIL Meeting Of Council - Thursday 30 November 2006. Section 9.9 CONNOLLY DRIVE DEVELOPMENT] ] Connolly Drive eases traffic flow from Marmion Avenue, between suburbs of Currambine, Kinross, Clarkson, Merriwa, Ridgewood and Butler. The section between Kinross and Clarkson opened up a connection right from Butler down through Currambine. The opened section was to assist with increased traffic flow once the Mitchell Freeway opens in mid-2008. [ [http://www2.mainroads.wa.gov.au/Internet/Projects/Urban/mitchell.asp MAIN ROADS - Urban Projects - Mitchell Freeway.] ]

Opening of this section has in fact created a bottleneck between the roundabouts at Burns Beach Road and Kinross Drive. The City of Joondalup has promised that the stretch of Connolly Drive through Kinross will soon be dualled [Joondalup Weekender - 15 May 2008] , to relieve this. Further issues have been caused in the Kinross stretch with the opening of the new stretch of Connolly Drive. The road is now so busy that users of Kinross Central shopping centre turning into Selkirk Drive, find this northbound right hand turn is now very hazardous. It is not clear whether this junction will be upgraded with traffic control when City of Joondalup widen this stretch of the road.

Connolly Drive is currently a two-way road for most of its length, and changes to a dual carriageway through north of Kinross. A small section between Neerabup Road and Riverlinks Drive, Clarkson changes to a boulevard single carriage way. A number of major intersections cross the road, most of which are controlled mainly by roundabouts. The most significant intersections are with Shenton Avenue, Burns Beach Road and Hester Avenue. [UBD 2007 Perth and surrounds Street Directory 2007 - 49th Edition.] .

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