Warwick Road

This article is about the Warwick Road near Perth, Western Australia. For the road in Kensington, London, see Warwick Road, Earl's Court. For the road near Richmond, Virginia, see Warwick Road (Chesterfield County).

Warwick Road is an arterial east–west road located in the northern suburbs of Perth, Western Australia.

Warwick Road Western Australia
General information
Type	Road
Length	5.6 km (3.5 mi)
Opened	1969
Route number(s)	State Route 81
Major junctions
West end	Marmion Avenue (State Route 71), Sorrento
	Mitchell Freeway (State Route 2) Erindale Road (State Route 77)
East end	Wanneroo Road (State Route 60 / State Route 81), Greenwood
Location(s)
Major suburbs	Duncraig, Warwick, Greenwood

History

Warwick Road was built in 1969 to service the Shire of Wanneroo parts of the Hamersley Development Scheme, which was later split into the suburbs of Duncraig, Warwick and Greenwood. Its original alignment, which was gazetted in 1949 as Road No. 10578 by the Wanneroo Road Board,^[1] was a straight east–west road extending to Alexander Drive, but in the mid-1970s, the alignment was altered southwards in the vicinity of the freeway alignment in preparation for connecting to the Mitchell Freeway when it was extended 1986. In the late 1970s, the section east of Wanneroo Road was split off to form Marangaroo Drive.

Apart from the Glengarry and Greenwood neighbourhood shopping centres, Warwick Road also passes Warwick Open Space east of Erindale Road and the Percy Doyle Reserve, which includes sports and recreation facilities and the Duncraig Library, near Marmion Avenue.

Renamed segments of the old alignment include Arnisdale Road west of the freeway, Tuart Road east of the freeway, and Mereworth Way/Warwick place east of Wanneroo Road. There is also a small, discontinuous, segment west of the intersection west of Marmion Avenue.

Major intersections

View westbound from Coolibah Drive

View eastbound from Erindale Road

All intersections listed below are traffic light-controlled unless otherwise indicated.

LGA	Location	km	mi	Destinations	Notes
Joondalup	Sorrento	−0.5	−0.31	Parnell Avenue	Western terminus of minor road section
	Sorrento-Marmion boundary	0.0	0.0	Justin Drive north / Keppell Road south	Eastern terminus of minor road section
	Marmion–Sorrento–Duncraig tripoint	0.0	0.0	Marmion Avenue (State Route 71)  – Yanchep, Craigie, Carine, Scarborough	Western terminus of arterial road section. State Route 81 western concurrency terminus
	Duncraig	1.7	1.1	Glengarry Drive
		2.2	1.4	Davallia Road
	Duncraig-Greenwood-Warwick tripoint	2.7– 2.9	1.7– 1.8	Mitchell Freeway (State Route 2)  – Butler, Joondalup, Stirling, Perth	Signalised diamond interchange favouring Mitchell Freeway
	Greenwood-Warwick boundary	3.4	2.1	Dorchester Avenue	Access to Warwick Grove Shopping Centre
		3.8	2.4	Coolibah Drive
		4.9	3.0	Cockman Road north / Erindale Road south  – Hamersley, Balcatta, Gwelup
Joondalup–Wanneroo boundary	Girrawheen-Greenwood-Warwick tripoint	5.6	3.5	Wanneroo Road (State Route 60 / State Route 81 north)  – Hamersley, Balcatta, Gwelup	Eastern terminus of arterial road section
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi       Concurrency terminus       Route transition Note: Intersections with minor local roads are not shown

See also

Australian roads portal