When announced, the incumbent government had a strategy to deliver the complete project in ten years from May 2015.

[3] The components identified by the Department of Planning, Transport and Infrastructure, from north to south, are:[4] The Northern Expressway opened in September 2010 and was named the Max Fatchen Expressway, as the longest new road project in South Australia for a number of decades.

Max Fatchen was a popular author and journalist who had grown up and lived most of his life in the area traversed by the expressway.

The Southern Expressway opened in two stages in 1997 and 2001 respectively, as a one way freeway which was closed for an hour twice a day, and reversed direction to match peak traffic flow.

Heading south after the expressway, Victor Harbor can be accessed with one additional set of traffic lights.

The Gawler Bypass extends the continuous motorway at the northern end of the Corridor to the Sturt Highway at Hewett.