McIntyre Road, Adelaide

McIntyre Road and Kings Road are arterial roads crossing the northern and northeastern suburbs of Adelaide in South Australia. They are together denoted as route A18.

McIntyre Road Kings Road South Australia
Coordinates	34°45′48″S 138°35′35″E (northwest end) 34°50′8″S 138°40′50″E (southeasteast end)
General information
Type	Road
Location	Adelaide
Route number(s)	A18
Major junctions
northwest end	Port Wakefield Road, Paralowie
	Main North Road
southeasteast end	North East Road, Modbury
Location(s)
LGA(s)	City of Salisbury City of Tea Tree Gully
Major suburbs	Salisbury Downs Parafield Gardens Salisbury South Parafield Salisbury East Para Hills West Gulfview Heights Para Hills Wynn Vale Modbury Heights Modbury North
Highway system
Highways in Australia National Highway • Freeways in Australia Highways in South Australia

Route description

Kings Road crosses the northern suburbs connecting Port Wakefield Road and Main North Road immediately north of Parafield Airport across the southern edge of Salisbury. The western part of Kings Road passes through residential areas and crosses the Little Para River. East of the railway lines, the character changes to industrial manufacturing, and the Parafield Airport.

McIntyre Road continues east of Main North Road with a residential character again. It rises up the face of the Adelaide Hills through a corridor of native bushland and sweeps past the Golden Grove development of the 1980s to North East Road at Modbury. Much of the McIntyre Road corridor was originally reserved as part of the 1960s Metropolitan Adelaide Transport Study (MATS Plan).

History

McIntyre Road was opened in 1989, funded primarily by the Australian Government.[1]

In 2016, the western end of Kings Road was realigned so that instead of it ending at a tee junction with Bolivar Road just short of Port Wakefield Road, the two roads meet at a large roundabout where Kings Road continues to Port Wakefield Road, enabling easier traffic flow to and from Kings Road. An adjacent interchange with the North–South Motorway was opened in 2020.[2] Prior to this alteration, route A18 included 300m of Bolivar Road to connect the end of Kings Road to Port Wakefield Road.

Major intersections

LGA	Location[3]	km[4]	mi	Destinations	Notes
Salisbury	Paralowie	0	0.0	Port Wakefield Road national route A1 – Virginia, Port Wakefield, Adelaide city centre	Western end of route A18 is Bolivar Road, proposed to be extended 200m to the Northern Connector by 2019
		0.4	0.25	Bolivar Road	Intersection realignment in 2016 created a roundabout south of the original junction. A18 is Kings Road from here.
	Paralowie, Salisbury Downs, Parafield Gardens	1.7	1.1	Little Para River
	Salisbury Downs, Parafield Gardens	3.9	2.4	Salisbury Highway A13 – Salisbury, Port Adelaide
	Salisbury Downs, Salisbury South, Parafield Gardens, Parafield	4.4	2.7	Adelaide-Port Augusta railway line and Gawler railway line
	Salisbury South, Salisbury East, Parafield, Para Hills West	6.2	3.9	Main North Road – Gawler, Adelaide city centre	Kings Road to the northwest, McIntyre Road to the southeast
	Salisbury East, Gulfview Heights, Para Hills, Para Hills West	7.4	4.6	Bridge Road
Tea Tree Gully	Wynn Vale, Modbury Heights	9.7	6.0	The Golden Way – Golden Grove
	Modbury North, Modbury	11.6	7.2	Montague Road
	Modbury	12.4	7.7	North East Road A10 – Adelaide city centre	McIntyre Road
Route transition

References

1. Brown, Bob (22 June 1989), New $14 million road opened in North East Adelaide, retrieved 28 June 2016
2. "Kings/Bolivar Intersection Realignment". Department of Planning, Transport and Infrastructure, Government of South Australia. Retrieved 29 June 2016.
3. "Property Location Browser". Government of South Australia. Archived from the original on 12 October 2016. Retrieved 30 June 2016.
4. Google (30 June 2016). "McIntyre Road, Adelaide" (Map). Google Maps. Google. Retrieved 30 June 2016.