Shoulder Sealing Safety Improvements along Main North Road in Northern Adelaide

Extensive shoulder sealing works on Main North Road – a major arterial road in northern Adelaide – are among the first of South Australia’s Nation Building-Economic Stimulus Plan Black Spot projects to be completed.

The new shoulder sealing projects provide benefits for the safety of all road users and address the high number of crashes involving vehicles running off the road and losing control.

Sealing the road shoulders has provided a seal width that allows greater opportunity to recover safety if a vehicle strays from the sealed pavement. The wide sealed shoulder also provides benefits for cyclists by providing a safer area for cyclists to ride alongside the traffic lane.

The works, worth approximately $2.5 million, extend from Elder Smith Drive (Mawson Lakes) to the Gawler Bypass. They provide a sealed shoulder up to two metres on the left side of the carriageway, and a sealed shoulder of one metre width on the median side of the carriageway where possible.

The work was managed by the South Australian Department for Transport, Energy and Infrastructure with internal resources and commercial suppliers.  

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