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Gungahlin Drive Australian Capital Territory
General information
Type	Road
Length	7.4 km (4.6 mi)
Major junctions
North end	Horse Park Drive Clarrie Hermes Drive Ngunnawal, Australian Capital Territory
	Gundaroo Drive Barton Highway
South end	Gungahlin Drive Extension Kaleen, Australian Capital Territory

Gungahlin Drive is an arterial road in Canberra, Australia. Its urban portion is 7.4 km (5 mi) long, and serves as one of the major thoroughfares in the Gungahlin district, before becoming a parkway standard roadway south of the Barton Highway. This high quality section was built as the major part of the Gungahlin Drive Extension project.

Route description

The route begins at roundabout that forms the end of Clarrie Hermes Drive, and Horse Park Drive. It heads in a roughly south-easterly direction, passing by several suburbs, and becoming dual carriageway to the east of Gundaroo Drive. It then crosses between the Mulanggari and Gungaderra Grasslands and heads in a southerly direction along the western edge of the Mitchell industrial area. It then switches to a southwesterly heading and crosses over the Barton Highway, the interchange at this location also marks the transition to the start of the Gungahlin Drive Extension, built to parkway standards.

Junctions

Gungahlin Drive has multiple junctions along its length providing access to suburbs and facilities in the Gungahlin and Belconnen districts as well as the Inner North, there are links to several other arterial roads.

District	Location	km	mi	Destinations	Notes
Gungahlin	Ngunnawal, Nicholls	0	0.0	Horse Park Drive – Gungahlin, Majura / Clarrie Hermes Drive – Kinlyside	Roundabout
		0.7	0.43	Wanganeen Avenue – Ngunnawal / Kelleway Avenue – Nicholls	Roundabout
		1.5	0.93	Lexcen Avenue – Ngunnawal / Amagula Avenue – Nicholls	Roundabout
	Ngunnawal, Nicholls, Palmerston, Gungahlin	2.3	1.4	Gundaroo Drive – Crace, Nicholls
	Palmerston, Gungahlin	2.6	1.6	Kosciuszko Avenue – Palmerston / The Valley Avenue – Gungahlin
	Palmerston, Gungahlin	3.4	2.1	Kosciuszko Avenue – Palmerston
	Gungahlin, Franklin	4.5	2.8	Oodgeroo Avenue – Franklin	Southbound access via LILO T-intersection
	Franklin, Mitchell	5.0	3.1	Well Station Drive – Harrison
	Mitchell	6.5	4.0	Sandford Street – Kenny
Gungahlin, Belconnen	Mitchell, Kaleen	7.4	4.6	Barton Highway  – Civic, Hall, Yass / Gungahlin Drive Extension – Tuggeranong, Woden	Modified diamond interchange with single cloverleaf, signal-controlled access onto Barton Highway; roadway continues south-west as Gungahlin Drive Extension
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi       Route transition

See also

Australian Roads portal