7-554: The Britannia Roundabout is a roundabout intersection on the eastern side of the City Ring Route near the city centre of Adelaide , and is named for the Britannia Hotel, adjacent. Before it was upgraded in 2014 it was regarded as a traffic black spot, many minor collisions having occurred there. The five roads which join the intersection are (in clockwise order) Fullarton Road (to the north), Kensington Road to
14-591: A level crossing of the Outer Harbor railway line until 2017. The crossing was replaced by a bridge when the railway was lowered as part of a project to separate the Torrens Junction so that suburban trains to Outer Harbor did not conflict with interstate trains on the standard gauge line . The Park Terrace bridge over the Gawler railway line and interstate freight line was constructed in 1990. When it
21-477: A safer re-design of the roundabout, splitting it into two smaller roundabouts. The project cost was estimated at $ 3.2 million, and involved the removal of a small number of trees from the nearby parkland. In April 2014, the new and upgraded Britannia Roundabouts came into operation. City Ring Route Adelaide has two city ring routes, that loop around the Adelaide city centre and North Adelaide , known as
28-585: The Inner and Outer Ring Routes. The Inner Ring Route is a collection of major roads signposted as state route R1 (was A21 before 2017). Listed clockwise from Main North Road , the inner route consists of: The Inner Ring Route is adjacent to the outer edge of the Adelaide Park Lands except on the western side between Anzac Highway and Port Road where railway lines occupy the space along
35-413: The east, Fullarton Road (to the south), Wakefield Road (to the west) and Dequetteville Terrace (to the northwest). All five roads are two lanes incoming. Drivers travelling in a south easterly direction on Dequetteville Terrace faced difficulty at the intersection because Wakefield Road traffic came from well over their right shoulder. The angle is less than 45 degrees. The north western intersection of
42-472: The parklands, and the road ring route is further out. The earlier A21 route using West Terrace passed inside the ring of parklands instead. Prior to the renumbering as route R1 in 2017, the western side of the previous route A21 was different from the current route. It followed moore of Port Road southeast, West Terrace and Goodwood Road. Route R1 uses James Congdon Drive , a short section of South Road and Richmond Road instead. The Park Terrace section had
49-569: The roundabout was used as a hairpin corner on the Adelaide Street Circuit , the temporary motor racing track and for a long time was named Foster's Corner. The intersection takes its name from the Britannia Hotel, a pub located on the corner of Fullarton and Kensington Roads. There had been persistent calls for the intersection to be replaced or improved over many years. In June 2013, the State Government proposed
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