Location: Bunbury, Western Australia

Status: Open for use, with ongoing works into 2025

Project Benefits

• Improve freight efficiency
  
• Create a safer road system by removing a significant number of trucks from local roads
  
• Reduce local congestion and create more reliable journey times for all road users
  
• Add sustainable infrastructure to support Greater Bunbury’s position as an industrial hub for the South West Region
  
• Generate long term job opportunities for locals
  
• Reduce travel time between the north and south of Bunbury
  
• Improve access to Bunbury Port as well as existing and proposed industry areas east of Bunbury
  
• Allow vehicles travelling between Bussell Highway and Forrest Highway to avoid 13 sets of traffic lights and one rail level crossing
  
• Provide travel savings of between 11 and 18 minutes, depending on the destination and peak traffic conditions along the alignment
  
• Extending the service life of existing arterial roads, currently used by trucks, minimising future local upgrade treatments required
  
• Reducing the need for heavy vehicles to mix with local traffic on local roads by redirecting 10,000 to 15,000 vehicles a day onto the new road.

Ongoing works:

• Pavement and kerbing works at Harris Road and Martin-Pelusey Roads.
  
• Finishing works to roundabouts and intersections, including Discovery Road, South Western Highway (south) and Willinge Drive/Lillydale Road roundabout.
  
• Installation of permanent signage.
  
• Completion of portions of the shared pedestrian and cycle path along Willinge Drive.
  
• Artwork on noise walls near South Western Highway (north) interchange and Harris Road.