Safety Bay Road

Safety Bay Road Western Australia
Safety Bay Road near Safety Bay Yacht Club, where the road turns from north-south to west-east
General information
Type	Road
Length	15.6 km (9.7 mi)
Opened	1949
Route number(s)	State Route 18 (all sections)
Tourist routes	Tourist Drive 202 (Arcadia Drive to Ennis Avenue)
Major junctions
West end	Parkin Street, Peron
	Read Street Warnbro Sound Avenue Ennis Avenue (National Route 1) Mandurah Road
East end	Kwinana Freeway (State Route 2), Baldivis
Location(s)
Major suburbs	Shoalwater, Safety Bay, Waikiki, Baldivis
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Safety Bay Road is an east-west metropolitan road located in the City of Rockingham, about 50 kilometres (31 mi) south of Perth, Western Australia. The road starts in Rockingham's coastal suburbs and heads south from Peron past Lake Richmond. The road then turns left at the coast with a roundabout with Arcadia Drive which is a coastal road in Shoalwater. Safety Bay Road takes a left turn and extends past Ennis Avenue and Warnbro railway station to the newer suburban estates at Baldivis, before ending just past the Kwinana Freeway. As such, it forms a key link between Rockingham, Perth and Mandurah. Until 2009, the end of the road marked the start of the Kwinana Freeway.

Safety Bay Road was gazetted in 1949, having first existed as two roads – Road No.10168, and a coastal road in Safety Bay known as "The Esplanade".^[1]