The Australian Government is investing $2 billion into South Australia to fund major projects including:

• North‑South Road Corridor, which will complete the Darlington and Torrens Road to the River Torrens projects as the first stages of the upgrade of the full corridor; and
• the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara (APY) Lands project, which will upgrade 210 kilometres of the main access road from the Stuart Highway to Pukatja and improve 21 kilometres of community roads, including improvements to roads leading to airstrips in Pukatja, Umuwa, Fregon, Mimili and Indulkana and the Umuwa power station.

The Australian Government's investments in South Australia since the 2013 Federal Election are detailed in this map.

The project will involve the upgrade of the North‑South Road Corridor in Adelaide. The South Road upgrade at Darlington will involve upgrading the carriageway to expressway standard from north of Sturt Road to the Southern Expressway. The Torrens Road to the River Torrens project (Torrens to Torrens) will upgrade and widen this 3.7 kilometre section of South Road.

An upgraded North‑South Road Corridor will improve freight transport productivity in Adelaide. The corridor is a critical route for the movement of freight and business related passenger traffic, connecting the Port of Adelaide, Adelaide Airport, the Islington intermodal terminal and other freight terminals. An upgraded South Road will not only improve north‑south traffic flows along the corridor, but will also improve connectivity for east‑west traffic by reducing delays at South Road intersections.

Construction on both the Darlington and Torrens to Torrens projects is expected to commence from mid‑2015. Commonwealth funding of $8.5 million is enabling planning for the Darlington project to be fast tracked, with the planning study to be completed in late‑2014.

The Australian Government has committed a total of $944 million (comprising $496 million for the Darlington project and $448 million for the Torrens to Torrens project) to complete the two highest priority sections of the corridor as the first stages of the upgrade of the full corridor.