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Adelaide Avenue

Australian Capital Territory
Adelaide Avenue; Australian Capital Territory
General information
Type	Freeway
Length	2.0 km (1.2 mi)
Gazetted	20 September 1928
Maintained by	Transport Canberra & City Services
Former; route number	ACT Tourist Drive 5
Major junctions
East end	Capital Circle; Capital Hill, Australian Capital Territory
West end	Yarra Glen; Deakin, Australian Capital Territory
Location(s)
Major suburbs / towns	Deakin / Yarralumla, Canberra
Highway system
	Highways in Australia; National Highway • Freeways in Australia; Road infrastructure in Canberra; ; ;

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]} 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.^[3] The T2 lane was reverted to a bus lane on 14 November 2011 after the completion of the Gungahlin Drive Extension.^[4] 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.^[5]

References

^ "Adelaide Avenue, Canberra" (Map). Google Maps. Retrieved 8 July 2013.
^ "Search for street and suburb names". ACT Planning and Land Authority. Retrieved 8 July 2013.
^ "TRANSIT LANE ON ADELAIDE AVENUE" (PDF). Department of Territory and Municipal Services. Archived from the original (PDF) on 1 March 2011. Retrieved 2 September 2010.
^ Staff writers (5 November 2011). "T2 lane scrapped". The Canberra Times. Retrieved 7 November 2011.
^ Kathleen Dyett (17 November 2011). "Libs, Greens force U-turn on bus lane". Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Retrieved 8 December 2011.