For current crash alerts, lane closures, detours and congestion on Roe and Tonkin highways, check the Main Roads WA Travel Map before leaving. The available information does not verify which crashes or delay durations the headline refers to, so treat any older search result as unconfirmed until you check the live map.
How to check current traffic on Roe and Tonkin highways
- Open the Main Roads WA Travel Map, the official source for current road incidents and impacts in Western Australia.
- View the relevant stretch of Roe or Tonkin Highway and check the incident markers for crash locations, lane impacts, closures and detours. The map also offers a Google-powered traffic layer for congestion.
- Read the alert’s reported and updated times, then check again shortly before departure. A search-engine listing may show an alert whose status has since changed.
- Follow detour or exit advice only when it appears in the current official alert. Confirm whether the incident is cleared before assuming all lanes and traffic conditions have returned to normal.
For a useful comparison between routes, note the crash location and direction, lanes blocked, time reported and latest update, official detour advice, visible queue extent, and whether the incident is confirmed cleared. The map is regularly updated, but conditions can change between checks. The WA Government also directs drivers to the Travel Map for current road conditions and incidents.
What is established about the Tonkin Highway corridor
Main Roads WA’s Tonkin Highway Corridor project covers the highway from Roe Highway to south of Welshpool Road. Its proposed upgrades are intended to improve safety, congestion and travel-time reliability by removing signalised intersections at Hale Road, Welshpool Road East and Kelvin Road and separating highway traffic from local-road movements.
Main Roads WA reports 368 crashes at those three intersections from January 2020 through December 2024, including 8 involving hospitalisation. That is a defined count for the Hale Road, Welshpool Road East and Kelvin Road intersections—not a total for all crashes on Roe and Tonkin highways, and not evidence about the cause of any particular incident.
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What drivers said about peak-hour congestion
In a Main Roads WA online survey conducted from August to October 2021, 126 responses were received. Of respondents, 70% said peak-hour traffic flow on Tonkin Highway in both directions was unacceptable, and 87.5% agreed that raising the highway over existing intersections would relieve congestion. These figures describe the views of survey respondents; they are not measured journey-time impacts or representative estimates for all Perth drivers.
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