Northern Connector, Greater Adelaide, South Australia
Built on the land of the Kaurna people
Tract
The Northern Connector Project is a 15.5-kilometre freeway project in Adelaide’s north. The six-lane freeway was the missing freight and commuter link between the Northern Expressway, the South Road Superway and the Port River Expressway. The region in which the site is located is disturbed by industrial and horticultural activities, most notably the Dry Creek Salt Fields, equestrian land uses associated with the nearby harness racing venue Globe Derby Park, market gardens, other horticultural uses and the Bolivar Sewerage Treatment Works. It also includes the state-heritage-listed Dry Creek explosives magazines, once used for storing imported explosives. In the immediate area, important ecological sites are dominated by mangroves and intertidal samphire ecologies, including the Adelaide International Bird Sanctuary National Park – Winaityinaityi Pangkara and the Adelaide Dolphin Sanctuary. Parts of the area are subject to state and federal environmental protection acts.
The Department for Infrastructure and Transport engaged Lendlease (now Acciona)
