Grand Junction Road
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Grand Junction Road South Australia |
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| Type | Road |
| Length | 21 km (13 mi) |
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| East end |
 Lower North East Road, Vista, Adelaide
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| West end |
 Bower Road, Queenstown, Adelaide
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| Major suburbs | Holden Hill, Northfield, Gepps Cross, Regency Park, Port Adelaide |
National Highway A16
North East Road
Hampstead Road
Main North Road
Port Wakefield Road
Cavan Road
South Road
Port RoadGrand Junction Road is the longest east–west thoroughfare in the Adelaide metropolitan area, and is located approximately 9 kilometres north of the city centre. Travelling from the Port Adelaide region, it is mostly a double-lane sealed road (becoming a single-lane road past Tolley Road intersection at Hope Valley, South Australia) running 21 kilometres to the base of the Adelaide Hills. The western terminus is at the intersection of Old Port Road, 300 metres east of a causeway, which separates the Port River from West Lakes. The 2.4 kilometre section of road that continues west of Old Port Road to Semaphore South is named Bower Road. The eastern terminus of Grand Junction Road is in the suburb of Hope Valley, at the intersection of Hancock Road and Lower North East Road, just before the latter proceeds into the Adelaide Hills, past Anstey Hill Recreation Park and on towards the towns of Houghton and Inglewood.
The Grand Junction, located at today's intersection of Grand Junction Road and Churchill Road, is the meeting point of what was once the most accessible route out of Adelaide City to the north (over the Torrens via Port Road). It was the intersection of the North Road, later called the Lower North Road (today's Cavan Road), and the east–west road from Upper Dry Creek to the Port (today's Grand Junction Road from Walkley's Road to Cavan Road). It remained so until January 1843, when migrant labourers completed a new bridge spanning 120 feet over the Torrens River. This enabled travellers to take the more direct route northward on the road from the city to Gawler Town (later called the Great North Road, today Main North Road), and the junction of roads at Gepp's Cross took on a greater significance than the Grand Junction.
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