Adelaide Avenue

{{Short description|Freeway in Canberra, Australia}} {{Use Australian English|date=March 2018}} {{Use dmy dates|date=March 2018}} {{Infobox Australian road | road_name = Adelaide Avenue | road_name2 = | state = ACT | state2 = | route_image = | image = | image_alt = | caption = | type = Freeway | uc_former = | length = 2.0 | length_ref = <ref name="Google Maps">{{Google maps|url=https://maps.google.com/maps?q=Adelaide+Avenue,+Canberra |title=Adelaide Avenue, Canberra |accessdate=8 July 2013}}</ref> | est = | closed = | gazetted = 20 September 1928 | gazetted_ref = <ref name="ACTPLA">{{cite web | url=http://www.actpla.act.gov.au/tools_resources/place_search | title=Search for street and suburb names | publisher=ACT Planning and Land Authority | accessdate=8 July 2013}}</ref> | maintained = Transport Canberra & City Services | history = | route = | former = {{AUshield|ACTT|5}} ACT Tourist Drive 5 | direction_a = East | end_a = '''Capital Circle'''<br />Capital Hill, Australian Capital Territory | exits = | direction_b = West | end_b = '''Yarra Glen'''<br />Deakin, Australian Capital Territory | region = | lga = | through = {{ACTcity|Deakin}} / {{ACTcity|Yarralumla}}, Canberra | restrictions = | permit = | fuel = | facilities = | show_links = yes }} '''Adelaide Avenue''' is a limited-access road in Canberra, Australian Capital Territory.

The road connects Yarralumla with the Parliament House area. Adelaide Avenue is a popular tourist route, since Parliament house, The Lodge, the residence of the Australian Prime Minister, and the Royal Australian Mint, can be seen from it.{{Citation needed|date=October 2009}} It continues as Yarra Glen to link to the district of Woden.

The far right lane was used as a bus lane until December 2006, but due to the Gungahlin Drive Extension it was changed to a T2 transit lane.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tams.act.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0012/40530/MR1011_Adelaide_Avenue_Transit_Lane.pdf |title=TRANSIT LANE ON ADELAIDE AVENUE |work=Department of Territory and Municipal Services |accessdate=2 September 2010 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110301105836/http://www.tams.act.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0012/40530/MR1011_Adelaide_Avenue_Transit_Lane.pdf |archivedate=1 March 2011 }}</ref> The T2 lane was reverted to a bus lane on 14 November 2011 after the completion of the Gungahlin Drive Extension.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.canberratimes.com.au/news/local/news/general/t2-lane-scrapped/2347905.aspx|title=T2 lane scrapped|author=Staff writers|date=5 November 2011|publisher=The Canberra Times|accessdate=7 November 2011}}</ref> However a week after the lane was turned back to a bus lane the ACT Liberals and the ACT Greens overturned the decision, resulting in the lane changing to a T2 lane despite the wishes of the Labor party and the Transport Workers Union.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.abc.net.au/news/2011-11-17/act-t2-motion-passed/3676614?section=act |title=Libs, Greens force U-turn on bus lane |author=Kathleen Dyett |date=17 November 2011 |publisher=Australian Broadcasting Corporation |accessdate=8 December 2011}}</ref>

==See also== {{portal-inline|Australian Roads}} * Freeways in Australia * Freeways in Canberra

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Category:Australian freeways Category:Streets in Canberra Category:Tourism in the Australian Capital Territory