Indian Ocean Drive

Indian Ocean Drive Western Australia

View south towards Leeman, 2014.
General information
Type	Rural road
Opened	2010
Route number(s)	State Route 60
Major junctions
South end	Lancelin
North end	Dongara
Location(s)
Major settlements	Cervantes, Jurien Bay

Indian Ocean Drive is a coastal road in the Australian state of Western Australia which links Lancelin with the Brand Highway, just south of Dongara.

On 26 September 2010 the final section of 65 kilometres (40 mi) of sealed road from north of Lancelin to the old Pinnacles Desert Drive, approximately 10 km south of Cervantes, was opened. The section was completed at a cost of $95 million.^[1] On completion of the extension, State Route 60 was extended along the length of the road.

The new road provides travellers between Perth and Geraldton a 30-minute shorter and more scenic route than the inland Brand Highway. The Brand highway will continue to service heavy traffic.^[2]

In December 2010, the state's Geographic Names Committee, on behalf of the Shire of Gingin, requested that the City of Wanneroo rename the northern section of Wanneroo Road to Indian Ocean Drive. A motion was put forward at the 14 December 2010 council meeting to rename the section from Yanchep Beach Road north to the intersection of Gingin Brook Road renamed, reasoning that terminating Wanneroo Road at Yanchep National Park would "be good for tourism". However, Mayor Jon Kelly considered the proposal a "futile and worthless exercise that was tantamount to heresy". Other councillors called it "offensive to the pioneers" of Wanneroo, and wished to retain the name Wanneroo in the area's only main road. An alternative motion stating that the council "does not agree" to renaming the road was passed instead.^[3]

References

↑ Kent Acott (16 September 2010). "Indian Ocean road to drive new boom for coastal strip". The West Australian.
↑ "Indian Ocean Drive". Main Roads WA. Retrieved 2010-09-16.
↑ "Forget about renaming Wanneroo Rd". Joondalup Weekender. 16 December 2010. Archived from the original on 25 December 2013. Retrieved 25 December 2013.

External links

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Road infrastructure in Western Australia

Freeways	Graham Farmer Freeway Kwinana Freeway Mitchell Freeway

Metropolitan highways	Albany Highway Canning Highway Great Eastern Highway (Bypass) Leach Highway Reid Highway Roe Highway Stirling Highway Tonkin Highway Wanneroo Road West Coast Highway

Highways and major roads	Albany Highway Brand Highway Brockman Highway Brookton Highway Bussell Highway Coalfields Road Coolgardie–Esperance Highway Dampier Highway Derby Highway Eyre Highway Forrest Highway Geraldton–Mount Magnet Road Goldfields Highway Great Eastern Highway Great Northern Highway Great Southern Highway Indian Ocean Drive Mandjoogoordap Drive Muirs Highway North West Coastal Highway Old Coast Road South Coast Highway South Western Highway Vasse Highway Victoria Highway

Outback tracks	Anne Beadell Highway Buntine Highway Canning Stock Route Cape Leveque Road Connie Sue Highway Duncan Road Gary Highway Gary Junction Road Gibb River Road Great Central Road Gunbarrel Highway Kalumburu Road Sandy Blight Junction Road Talawana Track Tanami Road

Road routes in Western Australia

State Route 60

Charles Street
Wanneroo Road
Lancelin Road
Indian Ocean Drive

National Highways

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Tourist Drives

List of road routes in Western Australia

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Indian Ocean Drive

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