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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 .
Main Roads Western Australia controls and maintains all freeways and highways, as well as some arterial roads, [1] [2] collectively known as state roads. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] The remaining roads are the responsibility of local governments ; [ 2 ] major roads provide links to various destinations within Perth Metropolitan Region.
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.
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 Pilbara region. [1] There are two main highways in the region: Great Northern Highway, which travels north through the region to Port Hedland and then north-west along the coast, as well as North West Coastal Highway, which heads south-west from Port Hedland.
Major roads in rural Western Australia connect regional and remote centres of Western Australia, forming the basis of the road network outside of Metropolitan Perth. Main Roads Western Australia controls and maintains these roads and highways. [ 1 ]