Welcome to the South Australian Road Photo Gallery.

Settled in 1834, South Australia is a central southern state that covers an area of 983 482 square kilometres of Australia. The capital of South Australia is Adelaide which boasts an excellent public transport system, and curiously only a small number of motorways. This is due to the anti-freeway sentiment displayed by the residents in the 1960s and 1970s. (Historical Information courtesy of History Trust of South Australia & Spatial Information courtesy of Geoscience Australia)

The state's main roads are administered by Transport SA, the department manages nearly 23 000 kilometres of South Australia’s road network, which represents almost 25 per cent of the state’s total road network. The state has some roads that are numbered using alphanumeric designation to indicate the importance and / or the standard of the route. Previous to the introduction of alphanumeric routes in 1998 the state did not have state numbered routes, only numbered national routes and national highways.

The name, structure, operations and scope of the government agency responsible for road construction and maintenance changed over time. It has variously been called the Central (and Local) Board of Main Roads (1849 to 1917), the Local Government Department (1917 to 1926) after which the Department of Highways and Local Government came into being. In 1969 Highways and Local Government separated and road-making became the responsibility of the Highways Department. The name changed again in 1989 when the Highways Department was abolished and the Department of Road Transport was created. In 1992 the authority was called the Road Transport Agency, in 1995 it was the Department of Transport and finally in 1998 was named Transport SA. (Historical Information courtesy of History Trust of South Australia)

Presented below is data from Transport SA on various facts and figures about South Australia's road network.

Below are the various roads that this site has photos of. The numbered routes are sorted by their route number and unnumbered routes alphabetically. To view each gallery, click on the thumbnail or route number.

Numbered Routes:
	M/A/B1: Princes Highway (including South Eastern Freeway), Port Wakefield Road and also Eyre Highway
	A13: Salisbury Highway, Main South Road and Victor Harbor Road
	A32: Barrier Highway