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Kwinana Freewayis a 72-kilometre (45 mi)freewayin and beyond the southern suburbs ofPerth,Western Australia,linkingcentral PerthwithMandurahto the south. It interchanges with several major roads, includingRoe HighwayandMandjoogoordap Drive,and is the central section ofState Route 2,which continues north asMitchell FreewaytoJoondalup,and south asForrest HighwaytowardsBunbury.A 4-kilometre (2.5 mi) section betweenCanningandLeachhighways is also part ofNational Route 1.The northern terminus of the Kwinana Freeway is at theNarrows Bridge,which crosses theSwan River,and the southern terminus is atPinjarra Road,east of Mandurah. Planning began in the 1950s, and the first segment inSouth Perthwas constructed between 1956 and 1959. The route has been progressively widened and extended south since then. The last extension was completed in 2009, with the section north of Pinjarra Road named as part of the Kwinana Freeway, and the remainder named Forrest Highway. The freeway has been adapted to cater for public transport: bus priority measures were introduced in 1987, and in 2007, theMandurah railway line(pictured)opened, constructed in the freeway median strip. (Full article...)

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