Road Photos & Information: South Australia
A20   Sturt Highway & Main North Road (A20)

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The Sturt Highway and Main North Road are major routes connecting New South Wales, Victoria and South Australia. The highway connects the Hume Highway (A31) in NSW with the Newell Hwy (A39) and other major routes of South Western NSW. The route also connects with the Calder Highway (A79) in Victoria.

The highway itself varies from 2-lane rural highway in the less populated areas to multilaned main road in some of the larger towns along the route to freeway standard and 6-lane arterial road standard in Adelaide.

The route receives Auslink funding from the Federal Government, recognising its importance as a major Australian highway for freight and travel.

The Sturt Highway is named after Charles Sturt, who explored south western New South Wales, the Murrumbidgee and Murray Rivers and also parts of central Australia in the 1800s.

History:

1 Location SA Map Viewer
2 SA Memory, The river as a highway: Crossing the Murray
3 Peter Morris, Australian Minister for Transport, Press Release, $18 Million Gawler Bypass Gets Go Ahead, 9 May 1984
4 Australian Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Local Government
5 Government of South Australia, Department of Transport, Energy & Infrastructure, The Sturt Highway Upgrade Gawler to Nuriootpa, Proejct Update, January 2007
6 Government of South Australia, Department of Planning, Transport & Infrastructure, Road Projects, Sturt Highway Upgrade
7 Government of South Australia, Department of Planning, Transport & Infrastructure, Road Projects, Main North Road / Tiver Road / Gordon Road Intersection Upgrade
8 Government of South Australia, Department of Planning, Transport & Infrastructure, News, New roadside facilities for truck drivers, 29 Nov 2013
9 Government of South Australia, Department of Planning, Transport & Infrastructure, News, Wire Rope Safety Barriers installed on Main North Road, 29 Aug 2014
10 Government of South Australia, Department of Planning, Transport & Infrastructure, News, Works on Sturt Hwy, 10 Dec 2014
11 Government of South Australia, Department of Planning, Transport & Infrastructure, News, Sturt Hwy safety improvement, 19 Jan 2015
12 Government of South Australia, Department of Planning, Transport & Infrastructure, News, Minor works Main North Road, Elizabeth Downs, 11 Mar 2015
13 Government of South Australia, Department of Planning, Transport & Infrastructure, News, Sturt Highway safer as point-to-point safety cameras switched on
14 Government of South Australia, Department of Planning, Transport & Infrastructure, Road Projects, Main North Road / Dalkeith Road Intersection Upgrade
15 Government of South Australia, Department of Planning, Transport & Infrastructure, Community Update, Regional Bridges Upgrade Project, Sturt Highway Bridges, Commencement of Works, 20 Dec 2018
16 Government of South Australia, Department of Planning, Transport & Infrastructure, News, Speed limit change on Sturt Highway at Blanchetown, 03 Feb 2017

Last updated: 08-Feb-2019 19:02

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