Stephenson Avenue

Stephenson Avenue Western Australia
General information
Type	Road
Length	2.7 km (1.7 mi)[1][2]
Route number(s)	State Route 64 (Osborne Park section) State Route 65 (Mount Claremont section)
Major junctions
Stephenson Avenue (Osborne Park)
North end	Flax Way
	Scarborough Beach Road (State Routes 75 and 64)
South end	Pearson Street (State Route 64) Jon Sanders Drive
Stephenson Avenue (Mount Claremont)
North end	Underwood Avenue (State Route 65) Perry Lakes Drive
	Montgomery Avenue
South end	Rochdale Road (State Route 65)
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Stephenson Avenue refers to two separate sections of road in the western suburbs of Perth, Western Australia.

The first section is a 1.2-kilometre (0.75 mi) section of two-lane dual carriageway linking Flax Way to Pearson Street and Jon Sanders Drive in Osborne Park via Scarborough Beach Road. The second, longer section is a 1.5-kilometre (0.93 mi) two-lane single carriageway in Mount Claremont used to link central Perth to West Coast Highway via Hay Street, Underwood Avenue and Rochdale Road.

The two sections of road are to date the only evidence of the originally proposed Stephenson Highway, a controversial highway that was proposed to connect Swanbourne to Innaloo.^[3] Evidence of previous attempts to extend the section north of Flax Way to the Mitchell Freeway can be seen on Landgate aerial photos from 1985, however only the section south to Jon Sanders Drive has been completed to date.^[4]

The two roads are named after Gordon Stephenson, an influential person in the development and expansion of Perth through the Metropolitan Region Scheme during the 20th century.