Port Road, Adelaide
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Port Road is a major road in Adelaide, South Australia connecting the central business district with Port Adelaide. It is twelve kilometers (7.5mi) long and exceptionally wide. When first concieved upon the establishment of Adelaide, it was designed to be able to accommodate a standard road, a railway line and a canal. The canal and railway line were never created in the road allotment - the railway line when built in 1853 was built a kilometre to the east.
In the 1968 MATS plan the road was destined to be upgraded to become the Port Freeway. The plan fell through, yet in 2005 the Government of South Australia announced a 600m tunnel for South Road underneath Port Road and the railway line.
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