# Scarborough Beach Road

Scarborough Beach Road is an arterial northwest–southeast road located in the inner northern suburbs of Perth, Western Australia. It connects North Perth to Scarborough Beach, and is mostly a single carriageway road, with two or three lanes in each direction. The road is the western section of State Route 75, between Osborne Park and Scarborough, although a short section in Innaloo was also part of State Route 64 until December 2023.

## History

North Beach Road (the original road name) and was built to offer access to Osborne Park, which at the beginning of the 20th century was rural community with established agriculture including market gardens, pig farms, dairy farms, and poultry farms. Whilst it was a formed road from North Perth to the corner of Frobisher Road, there was only a sand track beyond this point to Njookenbooroo, now known as Innaloo. A plank road, completed in 1912, replaced this sand track, and "some years later", a limestone road extension to Brighton Road, near the coast, was built. By 1925 the road had been renamed as Scarborough Beach Road, and was classified as an arterial road by Mr. Arundale, the Perth Road Board engineer in 1925. By 1933, the plank roads in the area had been replaced by regular roads, but these roads were narrow and many accidents occurred due to increase in traffic associated with Scarborough Beach's rising popularity. The increasing traffic meant that the road was continually being upgraded, including a partial reconstruction by the Main Roads Department in 1938. In the 1950s, prior to the development of shopping centres at Karrinyup and Innaloo, the Mount Hawthorn section of the road was a popular shopping area.

## Route Description

Scarborough Beach Road begins at Charles Street, in North Perth, as the continuation of Angove Street. The road travels north-west through Mount Hawthorn, which has been a shopping destination since the beginning of the 20th century. Axford Park, at the intersection of Oxford Street in Mount Hawthorn, is named in honour of World War I Victoria Cross recipient Thomas Axford. At Main Street, the road turns west and continues in this direction until Frobisher Street, along what was originally part of Green Street. The Glendalough railway station, built in 1992, picks up passengers on the road underneath the Mitchell Freeway bridge, in between Main Street and Frobisher Street. Scarborough Beach Road is one of only two arterial roads between Perth and Joondalup (along with Beach Road) that doesn't have an interchange with the Mitchell Freeway, although there was a "bus and taxi only" service road that was a southbound entrance ramp, it has since been converted to a PSP path Past here, the road continues north-west around Herdsman Lake, through the Osborne Park commercial centre to Innaloo. The Westfield Innaloo shopping centre, a large cinema and a tavern are located around the Odin Road/Liege Street/Ellen Stirling Boulevard intersections, which also carry traffic to the Mitchell Freeway, via Cedric Street. The Stirling railway station is located at that interchange. The road continues to travel north-west until Hancock Street, Doubleview, after which it heads west to Scarborough Beach. The last major intersection is with West Coast Highway, 100 metres (330 ft) east of its terminus.

## Intersections

| LGA | Location | km | mi | Destinations | Notes |
| Vincent | North Perth | 0 | 0.0 | Angove Street / Charles Street (State Route 60) – Perth, Wanneroo | Traffic light intersection; Scarborough Beach Road continues east as Angove Street |
| Vincent | North Perth | 0.18 | 0.11 | Sydney Street | |
| Vincent | North Perth | 0.25 | 0.16 | Hardy Street | |
| Vincent | North Perth | 0.35 | 0.22 | Eton Street | |
| Vincent | North Perth | 0.35 | 0.22 | Pennant Street | |
| Vincent | North Perth | 0.45 | 0.28 | Anzac Road | |
| Vincent | North Perth | 0.5 | 0.31 | Auckland Street | |
| Vincent | North Perth–Mount Hawthorn border | 0.65 | 0.40 | London Street (State Route 61) / Loftus Street (State Route 61) – Nedlands, Joondanna | Traffic light intersection |
| Vincent | Mount Hawthorn | 0.8 | 0.50 | Harrow Street | |
| Vincent | Mount Hawthorn | 0.85 | 0.53 | Dunedin Street | |
| Vincent | Mount Hawthorn | 0.95 | 0.59 | Shakespeare Street | |
| Vincent | Mount Hawthorn | 1.09 | 0.68 | Faraday Street | |
| Vincent | Mount Hawthorn | 1.12 | 0.70 | Edinboro Street | |
| Vincent | Mount Hawthorn | 1.19 | 0.74 | Oxford Street | Traffic light intersection |
| Vincent | Mount Hawthorn | 1.32 | 0.82 | Fairfield Street | No right turns possible except Scarborough Beach Road eastbound onto Fairfield Street southbound |
| Vincent | Mount Hawthorn | 1.45 | 0.90 | Flinders Street | Traffic light intersection |
| Vincent | Mount Hawthorn | 1.57 | 0.98 | Coogee Street | |
| Vincent | Mount Hawthorn | 1.69 | 1.05 | Matlock Street | No through traffic on Matlock Street or right turns from Scarborough Beach Road onto Matlock Street |
| Vincent | Mount Hawthorn | 1.75 | 1.09 | Boobook Lane | |
| Vincent | Mount Hawthorn | 1.82 | 1.13 | The Boulevarde | |
| Vincent | Mount Hawthorn | 1.85 | 1.15 | Dover Street | |
| Vincent | Mount Hawthorn | 2 | 1.2 | Kalgoorlie Street | Kalgoorlie Street northbound to Scarborough Beach Road westbound only |
| Vincent | Mount Hawthorn | 2.11 | 1.31 | Killarney Street | Killarney Street westbound to Scarborough Beach Road only |
| Vincent | Mount Hawthorn | 2.16 | 1.34 | Buxton Street | |
| Vincent | Mount Hawthorn | 2.22 | 1.38 | Ellesmere Street | |
| Vincent | Mount Hawthorn | 2.3 | 1.4 | Egina Street | |
| Vincent | Mount Hawthorn | 2.41 | 1.50 | Federation Street | |
| Vincent | Mount Hawthorn | 2.47 | 1.53 | Merredin Street | |
| Vincent | Mount Hawthorn | 2.55 | 1.58 | Eucla Street | |
| Vincent | Mount Hawthorn | 2.67 | 1.66 | Birell Street | |
| Vincent–Stirling border | Joondanna–Mount Hawthorn–Osborne Park tripoint | 2.7 | 1.7 | Green Street (State Route 75) – Mount Lawley | Y junction; no right turn from Scarborough Beach Road westbound onto Green Street |
| Vincent–Stirling border | Osborne Park–Mount Hawthorn border | 2.76 | 1.71 | Main Street/Brady Street – Balcatta, Leederville | Traffic light intersection |
| Vincent–Stirling border | Osborne Park–Mount Hawthorn border | 2.88 | 1.79 | Donovan Street | |
| Vincent–Stirling border | Osborne Park–Mount Hawthorn border | 3.01 | 1.87 | Jugan Street | |
| Vincent–Stirling border | Osborne Park | 3.24 | 2.01 | Mitchell Freeway (State Route 2) | Southbound entry ramp only; no access except for buses and taxis |
| Stirling | Osborne Park | 3.46 | 2.15 | Harborne Street | |
| Stirling | Osborne Park | 3.58 | 2.22 | Harborne Street/Frobisher Street | Traffic light intersection |
| Stirling | Osborne Park | 4.25 | 2.64 | Drake Street | |
| Stirling | Osborne Park | 4.56 | 2.83 | Hutton Street – Tuart Hill | Traffic light intersection |
| Stirling | Osborne Park | 4.86 | 3.02 | Sundercombe Street | |
| Stirling | Osborne Park | 5.13 | 3.19 | O'Malley Street | |
| Stirling | Osborne Park | 5.43 | 3.37 | Selby Street North/King Edward Road | Traffic light intersection |
| Stirling | Osborne Park–Innaloo boundary | 5.63 | 3.50 | Stephenson Avenue (State Route 64) – Shenton Park, Stirling | Traffic light intersection |
| Stirling | Innaloo | 5.82 | 3.62 | Ellen Stirling Boulevard | Traffic light intersection |
| Stirling | Innaloo–Woodlands boundary | 5.99 | 3.72 | Liege Street | Traffic light intersection |
| Stirling | Innaloo | 6.26 | 3.89 | Ewen Street/Odin Road – Stirling | Traffic light intersection |
| Stirling | Innaloo | 6.49 | 4.03 | Wotan Street | Wotan Street onto Scarborough Beach Road only |
| Stirling | Innaloo–Woodlands boundary | 6.52 | 4.05 | Bowra Avenue | |
| Stirling | Innaloo–Woodlands boundary | 6.65 | 4.13 | Muriel Avenue | |
| Stirling | Innaloo–Woodlands boundary | 6.77 | 4.21 | Hazel Avenue | |
| Stirling | Innaloo–Woodlands boundary | 6.89 | 4.28 | Grant Avenue | |
| Stirling | Innaloo–Woodlands boundary | 7 | 4.3 | Mahlberg Avenue | |
| Stirling | Innaloo–Woodlands boundary | 7.06 | 4.39 | Knave Lane | |
| Stirling | Woodlands–Innaloo–Doubleview tripoint | 7.16 | 4.45 | Huntriss Road – Karrinyup | Traffic light intersection |
| Stirling | Doubleview | 7.24 | 4.50 | Sydenham Road | |
| Stirling | Doubleview | 7.43 | 4.62 | Princess Road | |
| Stirling | Doubleview | 7.54 | 4.69 | St Brigids Terrace | Traffic light intersection |
| Stirling | Doubleview | 7.64 | 4.75 | Woodside Street | |
| Stirling | Doubleview | 7.79 | 4.84 | Wilding Street | |
| Stirling | Doubleview | 7.94 | 4.93 | Beatrice Street | |
| Stirling | Doubleview | 8.02 | 4.98 | Hancock Street | |
| Stirling | Doubleview | 8.13 | 5.05 | Flamborough Street | |
| Stirling | Doubleview | 8.24 | 5.12 | Herbert Street | |
| Stirling | Doubleview | 8.35 | 5.19 | Grand Promenade | Traffic light intersection |
| Stirling | Scarborough | 8.47 | 5.26 | Gildercliffe Street | |
| Stirling | Scarborough | 8.59 | 5.34 | Westview Street | |
| Stirling | Scarborough | 8.7 | 5.4 | Northstead Street | |
| Stirling | Scarborough | 8.82 | 5.48 | Duke Street – Wembley Downs, Karrinyup | Traffic light intersection |
| Stirling | Scarborough | 8.94 | 5.56 | Burniston Street | |
| Stirling | Scarborough | 9.05 | 5.62 | Abbett Street | |
| Stirling | Scarborough | 9.18 | 5.70 | Deanmore Road | Scarborough Beach Road westbound to Deanmore Road southbound and Scarborough Beach Road eastbound to Deanmore Road northbound, only |
| Stirling | Scarborough | 9.31 | 5.78 | Hinderwell Street | |
| Stirling | Scarborough | 9.45 | 5.87 | Grace Street | |
| Stirling | Scarborough | 9.52 | 5.92 | Joyce Street | |
| Stirling | Scarborough | 9.57 | 5.95 | Westborough Street | |
| Stirling | Scarborough | 9.66 | 6.00 | Wheatcroft Street | |
| Stirling | Scarborough | 9.7 | 6.0 | Stanley Street | |
| Stirling | Scarborough | 9.78 | 6.08 | Alga Street | |
| Stirling | Scarborough | 9.9 | 6.2 | Edgehill Street | |
| Stirling | Scarborough | 9.91 | 6.16 | Hastings Street | |
| Stirling | Scarborough | 10 | 6.2 | Filburn Street | |
| Stirling | Scarborough | 10.1 | 6.3 | West Coast Highway (State Route 71 / Tourist Drive 204) – City Beach, Fremantle, Ocean Reef | Traffic light intersection |
| Stirling | Scarborough | 10.2 | 6.3 | The Esplanade | Roundabout |
| 1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi Concurrency terminus Incomplete access ||||||