It services an industrial area in Bayswater and Bassendean, the Morley business district, and connects to Tonkin Highway.

It has undergone a major realignment twice, first in the mid-1980s to make room for a larger shopping centre in Morley, and between 2016 and 2018, for the construction of an interchange with Tonkin Highway.

After another 200 metres (700 ft), Collier Road comes to a traffic-light-controlled intersection with Broun Avenue at the boundary of Morley and Embleton.

After 300 metres (1,000 ft), Collier Link comes to a single-point urban interchange by which it overpasses Tonkin Highway.

[3]: 248  The late 1950s and early 1960s saw the land around Collier Road change from rural to suburban, as the suburbs of Morley and Embleton were developed.

This provided an opportunity for realigning Collier Road to go along the eastern edge of the Morley business district, to allow the construction of one large shopping centre.

Long standing businesses in the area, especially those along Collier Road, were strongly opposed to the idea, but the Bayswater council was for it.

A single-point urban interchange was built at the junction of Collier Road and Tonkin Highway, replacing the previous at-grade intersection.

[14][15] The state government's long term vision is for the Collier Road level crossing with the Midland railway line to be removed by grade separation.