Wider vision to link Prospect and Unley by extending Adelaide city's north-south Frome Street bikeway

The Frome Street, Adelaide, bikeway in its revised form.

The surviving half of the Adelaide City Bikeways Project, the north-south bikeway, won a national award of excellence for Infrastructure in 2019 from the Australia Institute of Landscape Architects, with the judges calling it “an exemplary project for remaking our cities”.

The other half of the project, an east-west city centre bikeway along Flinders-Franklin streets, was scuttled by an Adelaide City Council decision in March 2021.

The city council decided to concentrate on completing the north-south bikeway project, that was started with shared funds from the state government and council. The north-south project started with the Frome Street section that had to be redone after controversy and restored to two vehicles lines in either direction with cyclists separated from motorists by barriers.

The broader future vision for the north-south bikeway was to extend the Frome Street section to connect the existing Rugby/Porter streets bikeway in Unley to the Braund Road bike boulevard in Prospect.

In 2021, the progress on this vision was:

• Fitzroy Terrace - Medindie Road: Complete

• Medindie Road - Kingston Terrace: Complete

• Kingston Terrace – Sir Edwin Smith Avenue: Construction to start in September 2021

• Sir Edwin Smith Avenue – War Memorial Drive: Complete

• War Memorial Drive – Victoria Drive: Design being considered.

• Victoria Drive – North Terrace: Design being considered.

• North Terrace – Rundle Street: Design being considered.

• Rundle Street - Greenhill Road: Complete