Tonkin Highway is an 81-kilometre-long (50 mi) north–south highway and partial freeway in Perth, Western Australia, linking Perth Airport and Kewdale with the city's north-eastern and south-eastern suburbs. As of April 2020, the northern terminus is at the interchange with Brand Highway and Great Northern Highway in Muchea, and the southern terminus is at Thomas Road in Oakford. It forms the entire length of State Route 4, and connects to several major roads. Besides Brand Highway and Great Northern Highway, it also connects to Reid Highway, Great Eastern Highway, Leach Highway, Roe Highway, and Albany Highway.
Planning for the route began in the 1950s, but the first segment between Wattle Grove and Cloverdale was not opened until 1980. Over the next five years, the highway was extended north to Great Eastern Highway and south to Albany Highway, and a discontinuous section was constructed north of the Swan River. In 1988 the Redcliffe Bridge linked these sections, and three years later, Reid Highway became the northern terminus. The next major works on the highway, between 2003 and 2005, extended the highway south to Thomas Road.
The central section of Tonkin Highway was upgraded to a six-lane freeway-standard road between 2013 and 2015, as part of the Gateway WA project to improve the wider road network around Perth Airport. From 2016 to 2020, construction commenced to upgrade the section of Tonkin Highway between Guildford Road and the original Reid Highway terminus to a six-lane freeway-standard road, and to build a four-lane freeway standard road up to Muchea, as part of the NorthLink WA project. The extension was originally known as the Perth Darwin National Highway. Planning provisions have been made for Tonkin Highway to be extended south of Byford in the future.
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TonkinHighway is an 81-kilometre-long (50 mi) north–south highway and partial freeway in Perth, Western Australia, linking Perth Airport and Kewdale with...
(which makes up just over half the highway's length), is a continuous freeway. In conjunction with TonkinHighway, it serves as an important arterial...
concurrent with the construction of TonkinHighway and development of the Kewdale industrial area. The highway remains a key heavy vehicle route in the...
Bypass, Great Eastern Highway Bypass to TonkinHighway, TonkinHighway to Kwinana Freeway) TonkinHighway (Great Northern Highway at Muchea to Hale Road...
extended the TonkinHighway to Muchea. This section remains in use for local traffic and tourism to the Swan Valley area. Great Northern Highway is the main...
connecting it to both Great Northern Highway to the north and east and TonkinHighway to the south. The highway passes through agricultural areas and...
Route 50. TonkinHighway provides the lone freeway-standard road in the region, connecting Perth to both Brand Highway and Great Northern Highway. It travels...
permits. Anne Beadell Highway Connie Sue Highway Eagle Highway Gary Highway Gunbarrel Highway Heather Highway Buntine HighwayHighway 1 is a route that circumnavigates...
north-south arterial roads including Wanneroo Road, Alexander Drive, and TonkinHighway. The road is part of State Route 76, which connects the coastal suburb...
and has been honoured with the TonkinHighway and John Tonkin College being named after him, among other things. Tonkin was born on 2 February 1902 in...
areas further north. Until the construction of the nearby section of TonkinHighway between 1984 and 1992, and later, during the NorthLink WA road project...
roads in Perth, including the Leach, Tonkin, Brookton, and South Western highways. The rural section of Albany Highway connects to important regional roads...
other highways and main roads, including Canning, Albany, Tonkin and Roe Highways, and Graham Farmer Freeway. There are also two rural highways that spur...
northern section of TonkinHighway upgraded, and the road extended northwards as the Swan Valley Bypass, to bypass Great Northern Highway. These two component...
of the project, TonkinHighway was expanded from two to three lanes in both directions, between Great Eastern Highway and Roe Highway, and the existing...
the highway was extended further eastward, first to Hardey Road and, soon thereafter, to the new Beechboro-Gosnells Highway (now called TonkinHighway) which...
the median strip of the TonkinHighway for some of its length. The Santiago Metro Line 2 in Chile along the Pan American Highway City planners also commonly...
via TonkinHighway and Airport Drive, and to terminals T3 and T4 via TonkinHighway, Dunreath Drive and Brearley Avenue, or via Great Eastern Highway and...
Hepburn Avenue, extending from the Mitchell Freeway in the west to the TonkinHighway and Lord Street in the east. Cowan is a marginal seat that leans toward...
Morley–Ellenbrook line in Perth, Western Australia. The station is located east of TonkinHighway, north of Marshall Road, and west of Beechboro Road North, within the...
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State Route 4
Great Northern Highway (National Highway 94 / National Route 1)/ 
Thomas Road (State Route 21), Oakford
