Riverside Drive, Perth
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Riverside Drive Western Australia |
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| Length | 3.4 km (2.1 mi) | ||
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 State Route 5
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| East end |
The Causeway (State Route 5), East Perth
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 Plain Street (State Route 65)
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| West end |
 Barrack Street (State Route 53)
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William Street (State Route 53)
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 Mitchell Freeway (State Route 2)
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| South-west end |
Mounts Bay Road (State Route 5), Perth
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Riverside Drive in Perth, Western Australia, is a road on the northern side of Perth Water. It was built on reclaimed land in the 1930s, and links The Causeway to the Narrows Bridge.
Riverside Drive is part of State Route 5. It begins at the intersection of The Causeway, Adelaide Terrace, and Hay Street, which is a traffic light controlled raindrop roundabout. Riverside Drive heads west-north-west, parallel to the edge of Perth Water and the city's other arterial roads. It passes by Langley Park and the Supreme Court gardens before reaching Barrack Street and the Barrack Street Jetty. Until 26 January 2014, it continued through to William Street alongside the former site of The Esplanade, now the location of Elizabeth Quay. Ramps to the Kwinana Freeway and from the Mitchell Freeway connect to the intersection with William Street, with Riverside Drive's western section continuing as a one-way road south-westbound, following the Swan River and passing beneath the Narrows Bridge, before ending at the Point Lewis Roundabout on Mounts Bay Road.
Riverside Drive which was planned in 1903, but which was not completed until the 1930s due to the need to have reclaimed land on which to build the road.
Construction of the road in the 1930s was seen as a threat to the lightering trade on the Swan River between Perth and Fremantle.
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