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Cross Road

South Australia
Cross Road; South Australia
	West end East end
Coordinates	34°58′06″S 138°32′53″E / 34.968305°S 138.548139°E (West end); 34°57′48″S 138°38′38″E / 34.963395°S 138.644001°E (East end);
General information
Type	Road
Location	Adelaide
Length	8.8 km (5.5 mi)
Route number(s)	A3 (1998–present)
Major junctions
West end	Stonehouse Avenue; Plympton, Adelaide
	Anzac Highway; Marion Road; South Road; Portrush Road; Glen Osmond Road;
East end	South Eastern Freeway; Glen Osmond, Adelaide
Location(s)
Region	Western Adelaide, Eastern Adelaide
Major suburbs	Glandore, Unley Park, Highgate

The eastern end of Cross Road. Urrbrae is on the left

Cross Road is a major arterial road that travels east–west through the inner southern suburbs of the Australian city of Adelaide.^[3] It is designated route A3.

Route

Cross Road starts at the intersection at Anzac Highway in Plympton and heads directly east, crossing the Glenelg tram line shortly after, then crossing the Flinders railway line and Seaford railway line at Emerson Crossing under the South Road underpass, and the Belair and Adelaide-Wolseley railway lines in Unley Park. It continues east through Highgate and eventually ends at Glen Osmond and the Adelaide Hills, at the junction of Glen Osmond Road, Portrush Road, and South Eastern Freeway.

History

In a 1949 street directory, Cross Road had its current route, but was named "Cross Roads" (plural) and is shown as the aggregation of a number of local street names including:^[4]

High Terrace (between Fullarton and Unley Roads)
Napier Terrace (Between Unley and Goodwood Roads)
South Terrace (between Goodwood and South Roads)
Glen Osmond Road (between South and Marion Roads)
Plympton Terrace (between Marion Road and Anzac Highway)

Major intersections

LGA^[5]	Location^[1]^[6]	km^[1]	mi	Destinations	Notes
West Torrens	Plympton	0.0	0.0	Stonehouse Avenue (west) – Camden Park	Western terminus of road and route A3
West Torrens	Plympton	0.0	0.0	Anzac Highway (A5 northeast, southwest) – Glenelg
West Torrens–Marion boundary	Plympton–Plympton Park boundary	0.5	0.31	Glenelg tram line
Marion	South Plympton–Plympton Park boundary	0.7	0.43	Marion Road (A14) – Brooklyn Park, Park Holme, Darlington
Marion–Unley–Mitcham tripoint	Black Forest–Clarence Park–Clarence Gardens–Glandore–Edwardstown meeting point	1.6	0.99	South Road (A2) – Hindmarsh, Mile End, St Marys
Marion–Unley–Mitcham tripoint		1.6	0.99	Seaford railway line (Emerson Crossing)
Unley–Mitcham boundary	Kings Park–Westbourne Park–Clarence Park–Cumberland Park quadripoint	3.9	2.4	Goodwood Road – Wayville, Goodwood, Pasadena
	Unley Park–Hawthorn–Kings Park–Westbourne Park quadripoint	4.5	2.8	Belair and Adelaide-Wolseley SG railway lines
	Malvern–Kingswood–Unley Park–Hawthorn quadripoint	5.5	3.4	Unley Road (B29) – Unley Belair Road (B29) – Torrens Park, Belair
	Myrtle Bank–Urrbrae–Highgate–Netherby quadripoint	7.2	4.5	Fullarton Road (B28) – Norwood, Eastwood, Fullarton, Springfield
	Myrtle Bank–Urrbrae–Glen Osmond tripoint	8.8	5.5	Glen Osmond Road (A1 northwest) – Adelaide CBD, Frewville Portrush Road (A17 north) – Northfield, Payneham, Norwood South Eastern Freeway (M1 southeast) – Mount Barker, Murray Bridge	Eastern terminus of road and route A3
Route transition