Scarborough Beach Road

Scarborough Beach Road is an arterial northwest–southeast road located in the inner northern suburbs of Perth, Western Australia. It connects North Perth to Scarborough Beach, and is mostly a single carriageway road, with two or three lanes in each direction. The road is the western section of State Route 75, between Osborne Park and Scarborough, and a short section in Innaloo is also part of State Route 64.

Scarborough Beach Road Western Australia
Looking east, in Innaloo
General information
Type	Road
Length	10.2 km (6.3 mi)
Opened	1910s
Route number(s)	State Route 64 (Innaloo) State Route 75 (Osborne Park to Scarborough)
Major junctions
Southeast end	Charles Street (State Route 60), North Perth
	Loftus Street (State Route 61) Green Street (State Route 75) Hutton Street Stephenson Avenue (State Route 64) Odin Road (State Route 64)
Northwest end	West Coast Highway (State Route 71), Scarborough
Location(s)
Major suburbs	Mount Hawthorn, Osborne Park, Innaloo, Doubleview

History

North Beach Road (the original road name) and was built to offer access to Osborne Park, which at the beginning of the 20th century was rural community with established agriculture including market gardens, pig farms, dairy farms, and poultry farms. Whilst it was a formed road from North Perth to the corner of Frobisher Road, there was only a sand track beyond this point to Njookenbooroo, now known as Innaloo. A plank road, completed in 1912, replaced this sand track, and "some years later", a limestone road extension to Brighton Road, near the coast, was built. By 1925 the road had been renamed as Scarborough Beach Road, and was classified as an arterial road by Mr. Arundale, the Perth Road Board engineer in 1925. By 1933, the plank roads in the area had been replaced by regular roads, but these roads were narrow and many accidents occurred due to increase in traffic associated with Scarborough Beach's rising popularity. The increasing traffic meant that the road was continually being upgraded, including a partial reconstruction by the Main Roads Department in 1938. In the 1950s, prior to the development of shopping centres at Karrinyup and Innaloo, the Mount Hawthorn section of the road was a popular shopping area.

Route Description

Scarborough Beach Road begins at Charles Street, in North Perth, as the continuation of Angove Street. The road travels north-west through Mount Hawthorn, which has been a shopping destination since the beginning of the 20th century. Axford Park, at the intersection of Oxford Street in Mount Hawthorn, is named in honour of World War I Victoria Cross recipient Thomas Axford. At Main Street, the road turns west and continues in this direction until Frobisher Street, along what was originally part of Green Street. The Glendalough railway station, built in 1992, picks up passengers on the road underneath the Mitchell Freeway bridge, in between Main Street and Frobisher Street. Scarborough Beach Road is one of only two arterial roads between Perth and Joondalup (along with Beach Road) that doesn't have an interchange with the Mitchell Freeway, although there was a "bus and taxi only" service road that was a southbound entrance ramp, it has since been converted to a PSP path Past here, the road continues north-west around Herdsman Lake, through the Osborne Park commercial centre to Innaloo. The Westfield Innaloo shopping centre, a large cinema and a tavern are located around the Odin Road/Liege Street/Ellen Stirling Boulevard intersections, which also carry traffic to the Mitchell Freeway, via Cedric Street. The Stirling railway station is located at that interchange. The road continues to travel north-west until Hancock Street, Doubleview, after which it heads west to Scarborough Beach. The last major intersection is with West Coast Highway, 100 metres (330 ft) east of its terminus.

Intersections

LGA	Location	km	mi	Destinations	Notes
Vincent	North Perth	0	0.0	Angove Street / Charles Street (State Route 60) – Perth, Wanneroo	Traffic light intersection; Scarborough Beach Road continues east as Angove Street
		0.18	0.11	Sydney Street
		0.25	0.16	Hardy Street
		0.35	0.22	Eton Street
		0.35	0.22	Pennant Street
		0.45	0.28	Anzac Road
		0.5	0.31	Auckland Street
	North Perth–Mount Hawthorn border	0.65	0.40	London Street (State Route 61) / Loftus Street (State Route 61) – Nedlands, Joondanna	Traffic light intersection
	Mount Hawthorn	0.8	0.50	Harrow Street
		0.85	0.53	Dunedin Street
		0.95	0.59	Shakespeare Street
		1.09	0.68	Faraday Street
		1.12	0.70	Edinboro Street
		1.19	0.74	Oxford Street	Traffic light intersection
		1.32	0.82	Fairfield Street	No right turns possible except Scarborough Beach Road eastbound onto Fairfield Street southbound
		1.45	0.90	Flinders Street	Traffic light intersection
		1.57	0.98	Coogee Street
		1.69	1.05	Matlock Street	No through traffic on Matlock Street or right turns from Scarborough Beach Road onto Matlock Street
		1.75	1.09	Boobook Lane
		1.82	1.13	The Boulevarde
		1.85	1.15	Dover Street
		2	1.2	Kalgoorlie Street	Kalgoorlie Street northbound to Scarborough Beach Road westbound only
		2.11	1.31	Killarney Street	Killarney Street westbound to Scarborough Beach Road only
		2.16	1.34	Buxton Street
		2.22	1.38	Ellesmere Street
		2.3	1.4	Egina Street
		2.41	1.50	Federation Street
		2.47	1.53	Merredin Street
		2.55	1.58	Eucla Street
		2.67	1.66	Birell Street
Vincent–Stirling border	Joondanna–Mount Hawthorn–Osborne Park tripoint	2.7	1.7	Green Street (State Route 75) – Mount Lawley	Y junction; no right turn from Scarborough Beach Road westbound onto Green Street
	Osborne Park–Mount Hawthorn border	2.76	1.71	Main Street/Brady Street – Balcatta, Leederville	Traffic light intersection
		2.88	1.79	Donovan Street
		3.01	1.87	Jugan Street
	Osborne Park	3.24	2.01	Mitchell Freeway (State Route 2)	Southbound entry ramp only; no access except for buses and taxis
Stirling		3.46	2.15	Harborne Street
		3.58	2.22	Harborne Street/Frobisher Street	Traffic light intersection
		4.25	2.64	Drake Street
		4.56	2.83	Hutton Street – Tuart Hill	Traffic light intersection
		4.86	3.02	Sundercombe Street
		5.13	3.19	O'Malley Street
		5.43	3.37	Selby Street North/King Edward Road	Traffic light intersection
	Osborne Park–Innaloo boundary	5.63	3.50	Stephenson Avenue (State Route 64) – Shenton Park, Stirling	Traffic light intersection; State Route 64 eastern concurrency terminus
	Innaloo	5.82	3.62	Ellen Stirling Boulevard	Traffic light intersection
	Innaloo–Woodlands boundary	5.99	3.72	Liege Street	Traffic light intersection
	Innaloo	6.26	3.89	Ewen Street/Odin Road (State Route 64) – Stirling	Traffic light intersection; State Route 64 western concurrency terminus
		6.49	4.03	Wotan Street	Wotan Street onto Scarborough Beach Road only
	Innaloo–Woodlands boundary	6.52	4.05	Bowra Avenue
		6.65	4.13	Muriel Avenue
		6.77	4.21	Hazel Avenue
		6.89	4.28	Grant Avenue
		7	4.3	Mahlberg Avenue
		7.06	4.39	Knave Lane
	Woodlands–Innaloo–Doubleview tripoint	7.16	4.45	Huntriss Road – Karrinyup	Traffic light intersection
	Doubleview	7.24	4.50	Sydenham Road
		7.43	4.62	Princess Road
		7.54	4.69	St Brigids Terrace	Traffic light intersection
		7.64	4.75	Woodside Street
		7.79	4.84	Wilding Street
		7.94	4.93	Beatrice Street
		8.02	4.98	Hancock Street
		8.13	5.05	Flamborough Street
		8.24	5.12	Herbert Street
		8.35	5.19	Grand Promenade	Traffic light intersection
	Scarborough	8.47	5.26	Gildercliffe Street
		8.59	5.34	Westview Street
		8.7	5.4	Northstead Street
		8.82	5.48	Duke Street – Wembley Downs, Karrinyup	Traffic light intersection
		8.94	5.56	Burniston Street
		9.05	5.62	Abbett Street
		9.18	5.70	Deanmore Road	Scarborough Beach Road westbound to Deanmore Road southbound and Scarborough Beach Road eastbound to Deanmore Road northbound, only
		9.31	5.78	Hinderwell Street
		9.45	5.87	Grace Street
		9.52	5.92	Joyce Street
		9.57	5.95	Westborough Street
		9.66	6.00	Wheatcroft Street
		9.7	6.0	Stanley Street
		9.78	6.08	Alga Street
		9.9	6.2	Edgehill Street
		9.91	6.16	Hastings Street
		10	6.2	Filburn Street
		10.1	6.3	West Coast Highway (State Route 71 / Tourist Drive 204) – City Beach, Fremantle, Ocean Reef	Traffic light intersection
		10.2	6.3	The Esplanade	Roundabout
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi       Concurrency terminus       Incomplete access

See also

Australian Roads portal

External links

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