Parkes Way

Parkes Way

Australian Capital Territory
Parkes Way; Australian Capital Territory
	Parkes Way heading towards Black Mountain
General information
Type	Highway
Opened	29 November 1961
Gazetted	21 July 1960
Maintained by	Transport Canberra & City Services
History	Further stages of Parkes Way were built progressively and completed on the following dates: 2nd stage – 5 April 1963; Final Stage – 17 October 1979;
Major junctions
East end	Kings Avenue; Morshead Drive; Barton / Russell / Parkes, Canberra;
	Coranderrk Street; Commonwealth Avenue (A23); Edinburgh Avenue;
West end	Tuggeranong Parkway; Caswell Drive (GDE); William Hovell Drive; Molonglo / Belconnen / Canberra Central district border, Canberra;
Highway system
	Highways in Australia; National Highway • Freeways in Australia; Road infrastructure in Canberra;

Parkes Way is a major road in Canberra, Australia, which runs east-west between Kings Avenue and the Glenloch Interchange. At Glenloch Interchange it intersects with William Hovell Drive, Tuggeranong Parkway, and Caswell Drive (Gungahlin Drive Extension). The road is freeway standard from the Commonwealth Avenue overpass to Glenloch Interchange. Parkes Way is named for prominent Australian federalist, Sir Henry Parkes.

It passes by the edge of Black Mountain and part of the Australian National University via the Acton Tunnel. It also passes just south of the City and north of Commonwealth Park and Kings Park on the shore of Lake Burley Griffin.

Parkes Way was created with an 80 km/h speed limit that remained in place until 2008 when it was changed to 90 km/h.

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