{"id":69210,"date":"2026-08-11T03:58:19","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T03:58:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/69210\/"},"modified":"2026-08-11T03:58:19","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T03:58:19","slug":"perth-traffic-boom-gates-down-and-crashes-across-metropolitan-area-cause-peak-hour-chaos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/69210\/","title":{"rendered":"Perth traffic: Boom gates down and crashes across metropolitan area cause peak-hour chaos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">Boom gates are down at a busy rail crossing in Bassendean, with motorists urged to seek an alternate route as traffic builds in the area.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">Transit police are on site at the Guilford Road and Collier Road rail crossing, with traffic slow around the intersection.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">The disruption is one of several traffic headaches that has disrupted Perth roads on Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">Traffic is extremely slow on approach on Kwinana Freeway northbound before Roe Highway in Bibra Lake after a crash.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">The crash caused the left emergency lane to be blocked, with towing crews called to the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">Main Roads WA initially warned traffic was heavy on approach and urged motorists to drive with care.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">The crash has since been cleared but traffic remains slow in the area.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">A breakdown on Graham Farmer Freeway westbound after Victoria Park Drive in East Perth has resulted in the left lane being closed by incident response officers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">Traffic is slow on approach, with motorists urged to allow for a safe merge.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">A truck breakdown further south on the Kwinana Freeway northbound after Berrigan Drive in South Lake has been cleared.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">Likewise, an earlier crash on the Kwinana Freeway northbound at Mortimer Road in Wellard has been cleared after debris sprayed across the lanes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">A crash on the Tonkin Highway southbound exit to Roe Highway in Kewdale has also been cleared after traffic was reduced to a single lane.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Boom gates are down at a busy rail crossing in Bassendean, with motorists urged to seek an alternate&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":69211,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[22,21,335,2223,464],"class_list":["post-69210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-austrlia","tag-perth","tag-traffic","tag-wa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69210\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}