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Western Australia: Legislative Assembly. pp. 3653– 4. Driving by numbers: An introduction to Western Australia's route numbering system. Western Australia: Main Roads Department. 1986. Driving by numbers: A guide to Western Australia's route numbering system. Western Australia: Metropolitan and Traffic Operations Directorate. 1995.
Highways in Western Australia include both roads that are named as a highway, and roads that have been declared as a highway under the Main Roads Act 1930. The standard of highways range from two-lane roads , common in rural areas, to controlled access , grade separated freeways in Perth .
North West Coastal Highway is the coastal route through Western Australia's remote north-west. From the Mid West city of Geraldton, the highway heads north 50 kilometres (31 mi) to the small town of Northampton, and another 425 kilometres (264 mi) to Carnarvon, the only large settlement along the route.
Great Northern Highway is the main north-south route between Perth and the northern areas of Western Australia. Covering a distance of 3,195 kilometres (1,985 mi), [1] it is the longest highway in Australia. [4]
Main Roads, Western Australia (2006) Distance book: distances to towns and localities in Western Australia East Perth, W.A. Main Roads ISBN 0-7309-7668-8; Western Australia. Dept. of Tourism. (1978) Eyre highway traveller survey, 1978 : a study of travellers prior and subsequent to sealing of the highway Perth: Western Australian Dept. of Tourism.
Forrest Highway is a 95-kilometre-long (59 mi) highway in Western Australia's Peel and South West regions, extending Perth's Kwinana Freeway from east of Mandurah down to Bunbury. Old Coast Road was the original Mandurah–Bunbury route, dating back to the 1840s.
In Western Australia, Highway 1 is a 5,305-kilometre (3,296 mi) long [1] route around the state, from the South Australian border near Eucla to the Northern Territory border near Kununurra. Highway 1 continues around the rest of Australia, joining all mainland state capitals, and connecting major centres in Tasmania.
Main Roads Western Australia controls the major roads in the state's Mid West region. [1] There are four main highways through the Mid West: The north-south coastal route of Brand Highway and North West Coastal Highway, the inland alternative Great Northern Highway, and the northern section of Goldfields Highway, which links Meekatharra with Kalgoorlie.