Torrens Road

Torrens Road is an arterial road in the northwestern suburbs of Adelaide, Australia.^[3] The road is aligned southeast to northwest and is parallel with Port Road for most of its length.

Torrens Road South Australia
Torrens Road, Ridleyton
Coordinates	34.899373°S 138.588190°E / -34.899373; 138.588190 (Southeast end) 34.853899°S 138.515406°E / -34.853899; 138.515406 (Northwest end)
General information
Type	Road
Location	Adelaide
Length	8.4 km (5.2 mi)[1]
Route number(s)	A22 (1998–present) (through Ovingham)
Major junctions
Southeast end	Jeffcott Road Ovingham, Adelaide
	Fitzroy Terrace Park Terrace Churchill Road Regency Road
Northwest end	No through road Rosewater, Adelaide
Location(s)
Region	Western Adelaide[2]
Major suburbs	Bowden, Renown Park, Brompton, Ridleyton, Croydon, West Croydon, Croydon Park, Kilkenny, Woodville Park, Woodville North, Woodville, Cheltenham, Pennington

Route

It commences at the City Ring Route along the edge of North Adelaide, and heads northwest. Major roads that intersect Torrens Road include Churchill Road (A22), South Road, and Regency Road. It meets the Outer Harbor railway line in Rosewater, and ceases a short distance later, a couple of hundred metres south of Grand Junction Road (A16).

The short section between Park Terrace and Churchill Road at the southeastern end of Torrens Road is designated route A22, which then follows Churchill Road. An overpass of the Gawler and Port Augusta railways is currently under construction to eliminate the level crossing; it sees an average of 23,000 vehicles a day, and the level crossing gates can be down for 22% of the time during peak hours.^[4]

The former Cheltenham Park Racecourse (now the residential suburb of St Clair) and Armada Arndale Shopping Centre are both located on Torrens Road.

Major intersections

LGA[5]	Location[1][6]	km[1]	mi	Destinations	Notes
Adelaide–Charles Sturt–Prospect tripoint	North Adelaide–Ovingham–Fitzroy tripoint	0.0	0.0	Jeffcott Road – North Adelaide	Southeastern terminus of road and route A22
				Park Terrace (R1 southwest) – Bowden, Thebarton Fitzroy Terrace (R1 east) – Medindie, Kent Town
Charles Sturt–Prospect boundary	Ovingham	0.35	0.22	Churchill Road – Cavan	Route A22 continues north along Churchill Road
	Ovingham–Brompton–Renown Park tripoint	0.45	0.28	Gawler and Adelaide–Port Augusta SG railway lines
Charles Sturt	Renown Park–Ridleyton–Croydon tripoint	2.0	1.2	South Road – Regency Park, Hindmarsh	Access to North–South Motorway via South Road
	Kilkenny–Woodville Park boundary	4.2	2.6	Regency Road (east) – Prospect, Hampstead Gardens David Terrace (south) – Woodville Park
	Kilkenny–Woodville Park–Woodville–Woodville North quadripoint	4.5	2.8	Hanson Road – Woodville North, Wingfield
	Pennington–St Clair–Cheltenham tripoint	6.7	4.2	Addison Road (north) – Pennington Cheltenham Parade (south) – St Clair
Port Adelaide Enfield	Rosewater–Alberton boundary	7.6	4.7	Newcastle Street (north) – Rosewater
	Rosewater	8.4	5.2	No through road	Ends inside fork of Dry Creek and Outer Harbor railway line junction to Port Adelaide
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi       Route transition

See also

Australian roads portal

References

1. "Torrens Road" (Map). Google Maps. Retrieved 20 June 2022.
2. "Location SA Map viewer with regional layers". Government of South Australia. Retrieved 16 June 2022.
3. 2003 Adelaide Street Directory, 41st Edition. UBD (A Division of Universal Press Pty Ltd). 2003. ISBN 0-7319-1441-4.
4. "Ovingham Level Crossing Removal". Department for Infrastructure and Transport, Government of South Australia. Retrieved 18 December 2019.
5. "Location SA Map viewer with LGA layers". Government of South Australia. Retrieved 16 June 2022.
6. "Location SA Map viewer with suburb layers". Government of South Australia. Retrieved 16 June 2022.