Road Photos & Information: South Australia
Northern Road, Gadd Avenue, Main North Road, Gulnare-Spalding Road, Flagstaff Road, Eastern Road, Barrier Highway, Burra-Morgan Road and Morgan Road (National Route 64) (Decommissioned)
Statistics:
- Length:
- 266 km
- Termini:
- Eastern: Sturt Hwy (NH20), Monash
- Western: Port Wakefield Rd (NH1), Crystal Brook
- Suburbs, Towns & Localities Along Route:
- Crystal Brook, Narridy, Gulnare, Spalding, Burra, Maude, Morgan, Taylorville, Devlins Pound, Overland Corner and Monash
Route Numbering:
- Current: B64
- Former: 1 1 64
- Multiplexed with: 32
General Information:
National Route 64 connected Monash, near the SA-Vic border town of Renmark to Crystal Brook and National Highway 1, acting as a by-pass route of greater Adelaide and other town centres south of the route. The route is entirely rural road / rural highway standard, consisting mostly of one lane in each direction. The route crosses the Mount Lofty Ranges.
Multiplexes along the route include:
- NR32 (Barrier Hwy), for 7 km, Burra
History:
- 1990s: Crystal Brook bypassed, with National Highway 1 rerouted on what is now Augusta Hwy (A1), creating Old Princes Hwy, now part of Goyder Highway.
- 1996 to 1999: First time sealing of the route between Burra and Morgan. 1
- 1998: NR64 replaced by B64.
Post-1998 photos presented below are remnants, missed during alphanumeric conversion.
Monash to Crystal Brook
Advance Directional Sign:
AD sign on Sturt Hwy (A20) at Monash, December 2003.
Image © Michael Greenslade
Reassurance Directional Sign:
Distance sign with incorrect NH64 shield at Monash, December 2003.
Image © Michael Greenslade
1 SA Government, South Australian Parliament.