76-522: Barnawartha is a small town located on the Hume Highway in regional north-east Victoria , Australia , approximately 299 kilometres (186 mi) from Melbourne on the banks of Indigo Creek, which runs into the Murray River to the north. Barnawartha’s commercial centre is located around High Street, the indigo creek park accessed via High Street fronts the creek of the same name and includes
152-482: A music store in Annandale , described the road as, "A lost cause...You can see the hodgepodge of buildings - abandoned buildings, abandoned shops - [with people thinking] let’s just let this sit here for four years until we get council approval to knock it down and build apartments...They don’t care if it sits there vacant with broken windows and looks like shit, The problem is the whole road looks like that. So nobody
228-591: A distance of 16 kilometres (10 mi) from the Pheasants Nest bridge over the Nepean River to Yerrinbool , before dropping slightly before the final climb to reach the tablelands at Aylmerton , a climb of over 430 metres (1,410 ft) in 25 kilometres (16 mi). Governor Lachlan Macquarie ordered the construction of a road, which became known as the Great South Road (the basis of
304-646: A large winery called Bogong, on the Murray River . The town contains a few historic buildings, such as the general store and Cheesely's Bootmakers shop (now used to store hay ) a burnt and rebuilt pub, and a post office. There is a primary school located in Barnawartha that provides education from prep to year 6. Golfers play at the Barnawartha Golf Club at the Havelock Street Recreation Reserve. Barnawartha
380-430: A lighter note, Tess De Quincey, an Australian performer/director said, "Every chapter of Sydney's history has been written on Parramatta Road." A Sydney Morning Herald editor said that whilst the road is "ugly in parts, drab in others, and generally unpleasant", it is still "fundamental to the economic and social viability of the greater city ". Since the 1970s many buildings fronting Parramatta Road, especially those in
456-577: A new trail from Mitchellstown through Kilmore to Melbourne, a route that took a day and a half off the previous journey. The bulk of Bonney's track formed the Sydney Road for the next 139 years. and was especially surveyed in 1840. In 1914, both the Victorian and NSW sections of the highway were declared main roads by their respective state road authorities. Within Victoria, the passing of
532-470: A public toilet, BBQ facilities and a walking track. The township was surveyed in 1857 by Assistant Surveyor William Snell Chauncy . It was settled in 1860, the Post Office opening on 1 August 1860. Gustav and William Baumgarten were large land owners in Barnawartha prior to the township being settled. After serving prison time for receiving stolen horses from the infamous Ned Kelly , William developed
608-454: A result, many of the development proposals are controversial with local residents and are opposed by local councils. A number of the disputes between developers and councils have led to court disputes. The Inner West Council and City of Canada Bay , through which the road runs for much of its length, have proposed using an electric guided bus running on the centre of the road for public transport, as opposed to kerbside buses as suggested in
684-594: A steam tram line opened along Parramatta Road as far as Annandale, and was extended onward to Norton Street in 1884, where it turned to run along Norton Street to Short Street. In the 1800s, the government acquired a strip of land from Ashfield to Burwood from the Rosebank Estate, owned by the Sisters of the Good Samaritan , Australia's first religious congregation. Rosebank College now stands on
760-555: Is also home to the local Indigo Creek Fishing Club. Barnawartha has an Australian Rules football team that currently competes in the Tallangatta & District Football League (T&DFNL) and the club's first recorded match was in 1894 against Gooramadda. The club played a few friendly matches most years against other local towns between 1894 and 1909 prior to joining the Ovens and Murray Junior Football Association in 1910 and lost
836-555: Is categorised as a freeway by government roads authority VicRoads , although a few intersections along the route are not yet grade-separated. The speed limit on the full length of the highway is 110 km/h (68.4 mph). As Hume Freeway approaches Melbourne at the suburb of Craigieburn , 27 kilometres (17 mi) north of the Melbourne central business district , the Craigieburn Bypass now diverts Hume Freeway (and
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#1732775527595912-591: Is deeply dissected by the Nepean River and its tributaries. The route of the Highway, by using four high-level bridges to cross these gorges, avoids the Razorback Range, and has minimal earthworks . The climb from the western side of the Nepean River at Menangle up to Mittagong is fairly sustained, a fact that is hard to appreciate at high speed on the modern freeway. The highway climbs non-stop over
988-414: Is going to say, 'hey, this is a great area. I’m going to spend $ x making a really classy looking shop or restaurant'.” The Government of New South Wales published the 'Parramatta Road Urban Transformation Strategy' in 2016, with a 30-year plan for redeveloping the area through planning and infrastructure investment. Among the strategy's goals are housing an additional 56,000 people in 27,000 new homes on
1064-586: Is numbered as A22. The first 31 kilometres (19 mi) of the highway was known as Liverpool Road until August 1928 , when it was renamed as part of Hume Highway, as part of the creation of the NSW highway system. Sections of the highway through Sydney's suburbs continue to be also known by its former names of Liverpool Road, Sydney Road and Copeland Street (the latter two bypassing Liverpool's CBD). The main Hume Highway/Motorway effectively commences at
1140-545: Is one of Sydney's oldest roads and Australia's first road between two cities (before Sydney and Parramatta coalesced). As at 2015, over three million commuters every year drove Parramatta Road. The road is the hub of Sydney's motor dealership industry - with 67% of the adjacent land used for motor retailing and services. British settlement in Parramatta began in the same year (1788) as it did in Sydney. The Parramatta River
1216-543: Is part of the Auslink National Network and is a vital link for road freight to transport goods to and from the two cities as well as serving Albury–Wodonga and Canberra . It is therefore considered to be Australia's longest highway in terms of its dual-carriageway standard retaining the M, or motorway, alphanumeric. At its Sydney end, Hume Highway begins at Parramatta Road , in Ashfield . This route
1292-737: The City West Link and M4 Motorway . The road begins in the east as a continuation of George Street , which becomes Broadway west of Harris Street , and Parramatta Road west of the City Road junction, and ends at the junction with Church Street in Parramatta. Its 23 kilometres (14 mi) distance is dominated by caryards and small marginally-viable shops. At the same time, however, it has over 100 abandoned and derelict stores. Owing to this and its abrasively noisy traffic, it has rarely been considered beautiful. Opened in 1811, it
1368-1146: The Country Roads Act of 1912 through the Parliament of Victoria provided for the establishment of the Country Roads Board (later VicRoads ) and their ability to declare Main Roads, taking responsibility for the management, construction and care of the state's major roads from local municipalities. (Main) Sydney Road was declared a Main Road over a period of months, from 7 September 1914 ( Baddaginnie through Benalla to Glenrowan ), 5 October 1914 ( Springhurst through Chiltern to Barnawartha ), 16 November 1914 (through Craigieburn , Broadford and Euroa ), to 30 November 1914 (from Craigieburn through Wallan and Kimore to Broadford, from Broadford through Seymour to Euroa, Euroa through Violet Town to Baddaginne, Glenrowan through Wangaratta to Springhurst, and finally Barnawartha through Wodonga to
1444-516: The Moss Vale and Marulan districts, but this was not followed up. Any settlement would have to await the construction of an adequate access track, which would have been beyond the colony's resources at the time, and would have served little purpose as a source of supplies for Sydney, due to the time taken to reach Sydney. In 1804, Charles Throsby penetrated through the Bargo brush to the country on
1520-729: The Nepean (three times), Wingecarribee , Paddys , Murrumbidgee , Murray , Ovens , King and Goulburn rivers. The Hume also crosses the Prospect , Jugiong , and Tarcutta creeks. In New South Wales all towns on the highway have been bypassed. From Sydney, southwards to the Victorian border, the bypassed towns include Campbelltown , Camden , Picton , Mittagong , Berrima , Marulan , Goulburn , Gunning , Yass , Bowning , Bookham , Jugiong , Coolac , Gundagai , Tarcutta , Holbrook , Woomargama , Albury and Young . In Victoria all towns have been bypassed. They are, in order from
1596-480: The 1911 Rutherglen & District Football Association grand final to Howlong. Barnawartha then played in the Chiltern & District Football Association from 1912 to 1915, 1920 to 1940 and 1945 to 1957. The club then joined the Tallangatta & District Football League in 1958 and were senior football premiers in 2002 and 2013. Nearing Barnawartha and covering 21,565 hectares, Mt Pilot National Park includes
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#17327755275951672-527: The Australian states of New South Wales and Victoria. The highway's national route is divided into four sections comprising, from north to south, urban stretches of the highway in Sydney, a motorway from the outskirts of Sydney to the Southern Highlands , a grade-separated highway in regional New South Wales and across the state border, and a freeway throughout regional Victoria and into
1748-561: The Hume Highway itself at Campbellfield. This ceased to be the designated route of Hume Highway in 1992, with the completion of Stage 1 of the Western Ring Road, at which point the designation of the southbound highway was truncated. The former highway south from the Western Ring Road to Elizabeth Street is route is now numbered as Metropolitan Route 55 and is now officially called Sydney Road . Heading north from Melbourne,
1824-664: The M31 designation) to the east of the former route, to terminate at the Western and Metropolitan Ring Roads . This bypass was opened in two stages, in December 2004 and December 2005. At its Melbourne end, the original alignment of the Melbourne–Sydney route followed Royal Parade northward from where it begins at its intersection with Elizabeth Street and Flemington Road. Royal Parade becomes Sydney Road at Brunswick Road and then became
1900-671: The M5 South-West Motorway) and was allocated route number F5. While this section later officially became known as Hume Highway, it continued to be referred to as the F5 Freeway until the early 2010s due to its renaming to M31 Hume Motorway in 2013. Other than sections within the urban areas of Sydney and Melbourne, Hume Highway is generally dual-carriageway (with at-grade intersections and restricted entry from adjoining land), with considerable lengths which are of full freeway standard. Most of these sections are bypasses of
1976-583: The Melbourne end, route M31 was diverted onto the Craigieburn bypass in 2005; the former alignment (now known as Sydney Road) was replaced with State Route 55. With both states' conversion to the newer alphanumeric system between the late 1990s and the early 2010s, its route number was updated to route M31 for the highway within Victoria in 1997, and eventually within New South Wales in 2013 (with
2052-771: The Murray River (for a total of 161 miles), subsuming the original declaration of Main Sydney Road as a Main Road. Within New South Wales, the passing of the Main Roads Act of 1924 through the Parliament of New South Wales provided for the declaration of Main Roads, roads partially funded by the State government through the Main Roads Board (later Transport for NSW ). Main Road No. 2 was declared along Great South Road on 8 August 1928, heading southwest from
2128-1299: The Murray River and entering Victoria. From this point Hume Freeway continues 295 kilometres (183 mi) southwest by south, bypassing Wodonga , Chiltern , Wangaratta , Benalla , Seymour , Broadford , Beveridge , Craigieburn and terminating at Thomastown . From northeast to southwest, termini, major exits and interchanges occur with the Great Western Highway / Parramatta Road (A22), A3 (A3), A6 (A6), Henry Lawson Drive , Cumberland Highway (A28), M5 Motorway (M5), Westlink M7 (M7), Camden Valley Way (A28), A9 (A9), Remembrance Drive , Old Hume Highway (B73), Illawarra Highway (A48), Federal Highway (M23), Yass Valley Way , Barton Highway (A25), Lachlan Valley Way (B81), Burley Griffin Way (B94), Snowy Mountains Highway (B72), Sturt Highway (A20), Olympic Highway (A41), Riverina Highway (B58), Murray Valley Highway (B400), Great Alpine Road (B500), Midland Highway (A300/B300), Goulburn Valley Freeway (M39), Goulburn Valley Highway (B340), Northern Highway (B75), Sydney Road (SR55), and Western and Metropolitan Ring Roads (M80). Major river crossings, from northeast to southwest, are
2204-422: The NSW border, Wodonga , Chiltern , Wangaratta , Benalla , Violet Town , Euroa , Seymour , Broadford and Craigieburn . Camden dates from 1840 and lies 60 kilometres (37 mi) south west of Sydney on the Nepean River. It retains a rural character and has many historic buildings. There is an aviation museum at nearby Narellan . Urban sprawl has made Camden part of the Sydney metropolitan area. Before
2280-541: The New South Wales countryside from Albury to Marulan has been developed for wool production, with Yass and Goulburn in particular noted for their fine wool. The coast of New South Wales, from the Queensland to the Victorian borders, is separated from the inland by an escarpment , forming the eastern edge of the Great Dividing Range , with few easy routes up this escarpment. To climb from the coast to
2356-471: The Razorback Range and through Picton , Tahmoor , Bargo , and Yanderra , where the modern Hume Highway reunites. Parramatta Road Parramatta Road is the major historical east-west artery of metropolitan Sydney , New South Wales , Australia, connecting the Sydney CBD with Parramatta . It is the easternmost part of the Great Western Highway . Since the 1990s its role has been augmented by
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2432-600: The Southern Tablelands for agriculture was rapid. The present route of Hume Highway is much the same as that used by the pioneers. The route taken by Hume Highway to climb from the coast to the Southern Tablelands and across the Great Divide is situated between the parallel river gorge systems of the Wollondilly and Shoalhaven rivers. This country consists generally of a gently sloping plateau which
2508-691: The bank of the Murray. this provides close to the entrance to the reserve water access for boating This article about a location in Hume (region) is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Hume Highway The Hume Highway , including the sections now known as the Hume Freeway and the Hume Motorway , is one of Australia's major inter-city national highways , running for 840 kilometres (520 mi) between Melbourne in
2584-539: The bypass of Albury-Wodonga. From Albury, the highway skirts Lake Hume and continues across undulating country generally north-east towards Holbrook and then Tarcutta. Just north of Tarcutta the highway encounters the first of several ranges which form outliers of the Great Dividing Range, and which are crossed as the highway climbs the slopes to the tablelands west of Yass. From here the highway runs eastward, to Goulburn where it again turns northeast. Most of
2660-505: The capitals of New South Wales and Victoria, Hume Highway was declared a National Highway in 1974, and was consequently re-allocated National Highway 31. At the Sydney end, as the South-Western Freeway was extended during the 1990s, National Highway 31 was replaced with Metroad 5 from Prestons to Liverpool in the early 1990s, then by Metroad 7 through Liverpool, and State Route 31 from Liverpool to its terminus at Ashfield. At
2736-493: The city at 7:00 am, arrived in Parramatta at 9:30 am and left Parramatta for the return journey at 4:00 pm. Inside passengers were charged six shillings. Hazards on the road included the threat of attacks by Indigenous people and bushrangers. Hotels and settlements sprang up along the road to serve coaching traffic. The importance of the road declined with the advent of the Sydney-Parramatta railway in 1855. In 1883,
2812-424: The corridor (with minimum five percent affordable housing ); 50,000 workers employed in the area; and 66 hectares of new open space is provided through linear parks and along watercourses or infrastructure. The proposed development rights are worth millions of dollars to developers but are also controversial due to the density of some of the proposals and the likely impact on an already over-congested road. As
2888-609: The creation of a new entry and exit ramp on Parramatta Road in Ashfield, the narrowing of westbound traffic lanes for through-traffic to one lane at either end of the tunnel, and the demolition of a large number of houses in Ashfield and Haberfield to make way for the tunnel ramps. The road has been criticised by the community for its traffic pollution , congestion , and for its vacant shops and rundown buildings , particularly between Leichhardt and Concord , and local government has been accused of failing to adopt policies to encourage
2964-583: The current-day bypasses at Mittagong, Berrima and Marulan (dual carriageways were completed in 1986), is still largely followed by today's highway. Mitchell intended to straighten the route north of Yanderra, but was not granted funding, although his proposed route through Pheasants Nest has similarities to the freeway route opened in 1980. Mitchell's work on the Great South Road is best preserved at Towrang Creek (10 kilometres north of Goulburn), where his stone arch culvert still stands, although it
3040-450: The decline of commercial areas formerly catering to factory workers. By the end of the 20th century, proposals to revitalise Parramatta Road and make it more attractive were regularly made. One of these proposals was made in 2012, which would have widened and lowered the road below street level in a "slot" as part of the Roads & Maritime Services WestConnex motorway proposal. This plan
3116-743: The early 1970s, the Hume Highway ran west from the Cross Roads in Casula , 6 km south of Liverpool to western Edmondson Park , near the Forest Lawn Memorial Park, where it turned and followed the route of what is now Camden Valley Way. It ran through Narellan town centre before crossing the Nepean River on the Cowpasture Bridge. It ran through Camden town centre on Argyle Street before turning onto Murray Street, which then becomes Broughton Street. It then ran over
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3192-657: The first European (with William Hovell ) to traverse an overland route between Sydney and the Port Phillip District , in what later became the Colony of Victoria . The highway was fully sealed by 1940. In New South Wales, the passing of the Roads Act of 1993 through the Parliament of New South Wales updated road classifications and the way they could be declared within New South Wales. Under this act, Hume Highway today retains its declaration as Highway 2, from
3268-406: The former Rosebank Estate, and the heritage-listed building of the private school stands adjacent to the road at Five Dock . Sydney Municipal Council began widening the major routes into the city centre in 1911, including the construction of Broadway and the widening of the cutting on Parramatta Road adjacent to Sydney University. In the 1920s, the road was sealed and tramlines were removed from
3344-571: The full length of the highway for the first time. In 2008, VicRoads undertook a planning study for the upgrading of Hume Freeway by removal of direct access from adjoining properties and grade-separation of the intersections between Kalkallo and Beveridge . These intersections had the highest accident rate of the Hume Freeway in Victoria. The study, completed in March 2009, ensured council planning schemes were amended so as to reserve space for
3420-591: The ground parched. Mount Buffalo can be seen in the distance to the east as the highway comes down off the Warby Range near Glenrowan , and a museum commemorating Ned Kelly is located nearby. At Wangaratta the highway passes close to the Rutherglen and Milawa wine-producing areas. Continuing north, the Murray River , the south bank of which is the Victoria–New South Wales border, is crossed on
3496-473: The highway, opened as part of the two stages opened in October 1973 and December 1974, was originally designed for widening of the carriageways to three lanes. Work commenced in 2010 on a 9.5 km (5.9 mi) bypass of Holbrook. The bypass was opened to traffic on 7 August 2013 after being postponed due to wet weather. The opening of the bypass resulted in dual carriageway (much to freeway standard) over
3572-571: The intersection with Great Western Highway at Ashfield, through Bankstown, Liverpool, Crossroads, Narellan, Picton, Mittagong, Goulburn, Yass, and Gundagai to Albury. With the passing of the Main Roads (Amendment) Act of 1929 to provide for additional declarations of State Highways and Trunk Roads, this was amended to State Highway 2 on 8 April 1929. The Great South Road through New South Wales, and North-Eastern Highway through Victoria, were renamed Hume Highway in 1928, after Hamilton Hume ,
3648-543: The intersection with Western and Metropolitan Ring Roads at Thomastown. The route was allocated National Route 31 across its entire length in 1954. The Whitlam government introduced the federal National Roads Act 1974 , where roads declared as a National Highway were still the responsibility of the states for road construction and maintenance, but were fully compensated by the Federal government for money spent on approved projects. As an important interstate link between
3724-507: The intersection with Parramatta Road in Ashfield in Sydney, to the state border with Victoria. In Victoria, the passing of the Road Management Act 2004 through the Parliament of Victoria granted the responsibility of overall management and development of Victoria's major arterial roads to VicRoads : VicRoads re-declared the road in 2013 as Hume Freeway (Freeway #1550), beginning at the state border with New South Wales to
3800-750: The junction of the M5 South-West Motorway and the Westlink M7 at Prestons . Heading eastbound, the M5 provides access to Sydney Airport and the CBD; while the M7 provides access to Newcastle and Brisbane bypassing the Sydney CBD. Both of these routes are tolled . The section of Hume Motorway between Prestons and Narellan Road was previously known as South Western Freeway (not to be confused with
3876-445: The larger towns on the route, where the need to deviate the route to construct the bypass made it practical to deny access from adjoining land and thus provide full freeway conditions. In addition to these bypasses the sections between Casula (in southwestern Sydney) and Berrima (built 1973–92), and Broadford to Wallan (1976), which were both constructed as major deviations, are also of full freeway standard. The entire section in Victoria
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#17327755275953952-715: The median strip along the Craigieburn Bypass section and northward to Broadford , in Victoria, at roughly 15–20 km intervals. These measure both instantaneous (flash photography) speed and its speciality in the point-to-point versions (between two or more sites and then the average speed is measured to the fixed speed limit, comparing how long it takes a vehicle to reach one point from another). There are five sites, with two cameras (radar version) at each, totalling ten altogether. In Sydney: next to Ashfield Primary School, near Culdees Road Burwood, Willee St Enfield, Stacey St Bankstown, Brennan St Yagoona, and Knight St Lansvale. Between Prestons and Campbelltown, an exit numbering system
4028-472: The northern end of Hume Highway) in 1819 from Picton to the Goulburn Plains and he travelled to Goulburn in 1820, but it is unlikely that even a primitive road was finished at that time. The Great South Road was rebuilt and completely re-routed between Yanderra and Goulburn by Surveyor-General Thomas Mitchell in 1833. The Main Roads Management Act of June 1858 declared the Great South Road, from near Sydney through Goulburn and Gundagai to Albury, as one of
4104-715: The outer suburbs of northern Melbourne. In Sydney, Hume Highway stretches 31 kilometres (19 mi) southwest from Ashfield in the inner west to Prestons via Enfield , Greenacre , Villawood , Liverpool and Casula . From Sydney's southwestern outskirts; Hume Motorway stretches 88 kilometres (55 mi) south by southwest, from Prestons to outside Berrima bypassing Campbelltown , Camden , Mittagong , Bowral and Moss Vale . From outside Berrima, Hume Highway stretches 426 kilometres (265 mi) southwest by west, bypassing Sutton Forest , Marulan , Goulburn , Yass , Bowning , Bookham , Jugiong , Gundagai , Holbrook , Thurgoona , Lavington and Albury before crossing
4180-466: The prime locations of the Inner West (from Newtown to Homebush ), have become vacant and fallen into disrepair, with many vandalised . Previously these buildings were a major part of local life for the suburbs along Parramatta Road, providing employment, retailing and other services. The buildings with graffiti and broken windows provide a sight that is sought out by graffiti vandals and proficient urban photographers . Nicholas Munning, an owner of
4256-440: The redevelopment and regeneration of vacant sites. A local mayor described it as a "varicose vein". A NSW Business Chamber Executive Patricia Forsythe said that the road is "one of the least attractive commercial areas of Sydney". Former NSW premier Nick Greiner thought the road looked "like Beirut on a bad day". The Sydney Morning Herald writer Elizabeth Farrelly described it as "filthy, noisy, sclerotic and dull". On
4332-401: The road passes through the hills of the Great Dividing Range , some of which is covered with box eucalypt forest but of which much is cleared for farmland, before levelling out near Seymour to cross flat, mostly cleared farming country to Wodonga and the Victoria–New South Wales border. Victoria's landscape differs from that of the typical 'true Australian Outback ', but a dry summer can leave
4408-412: The road. Sheep and cattle were still crossing Parramatta Road at Homebush as late as the 1960s. Increased traffic congestion along the road steadily made it less attractive for residential and commercial use during the 20th century. By the last quarter of the 20th century, the only active businesses on many stretches of the road were car dealerships. The decline of industry in the Inner West also drove
4484-419: The route between Berrima and Prestons also renamed Hume Motorway), with route A28 between Prestons and Liverpool, and route A22 from Liverpool to its terminus at Ashfield. Between February 2009 and March 2012, both carriageways were widened between Brooks Road and Narellan Road. This work was undertaken in 3 stages. The first stage, widening to 4 lanes each way between Brooks Road and St Andrews Road St Andrews
4560-412: The southwest and Sydney in the northeast. Upgrading of the route from Sydney's outskirts to Melbourne's outskirts to dual carriageway was completed on 7 August 2013. From north to south, the road is called the Hume Highway in metropolitan Sydney, the Hume Motorway between the Cutler Interchange and Berrima , the Hume Highway elsewhere in New South Wales and the Hume Freeway in Victoria . It
4636-399: The state border with New South Wales). The passing of the Highways and Vehicles Act of 1924 provided for the declaration of State Highways, roads two-thirds financed by the State government through the Country Roads Board. North-Eastern Highway was declared a State Highway on 1 July 1925, cobbled from a collection of roads from Melbourne through Seymour, Benalla, Wangaratta and Wodonga to
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#17327755275954712-597: The strategy. The highway forms the boundaries of various suburbs along the way and ends at the junction of Church Street, Parramatta, where the Great Western Highway briefly turns to the north. Parramatta Road forms the southern boundary of the following suburbs: Parramatta Road forms the northern boundary of the following suburbs: West of Concord and Burwood, Parramatta Road passes through Strathfield , Homebush , Auburn , Clyde and Granville before reaching Parramatta. Parramatta Road has many former route allocations including former National Route 32. Where and when
4788-408: The striking Mt Pilot Range, Woolshed Falls, box-ironbark forests and several historic goldmining sites. local waterways and mountains include Frying Pan Creek, Indigo Creek and Mount Lady Franklin. In the nearby area there are several nearby public accessible river access and camping grounds, this includes Richardson's bend often referred by the locals as Richos is a Dispersed bush camping ground along
4864-481: The tablelands near Moss Vale and Sutton Forest . On another expedition in 1818, he reached Lake Bathurst and the " Goulburn Plains ". Many of the early explorers would most likely have used aboriginal guides, but they do not appear to have given them credit. After Charles Throsby's 1818 journey towards present day Goulburn, followed by Hamilton Hume and William Hovell's overland journey from Appin (near Campbelltown) to Port Phillip and return in 1824, development of
4940-440: The tablelands, Hume Highway uses the Bargo Ramp , a geological feature which provides one of the few easy crossings of the escarpment. In the first twenty years of European settlement at Sydney (established 1788), exploration southwest of Sydney was slow. This area was heavily wooded at the time, especially the " Bargo brush ", which was regarded as almost impenetrable. In 1798 explorers (Wilson, Price, Hacking, and Collins) reached
5016-422: The three main roads in the colony. However, its southern reaches were described as only a "scarcely formed bullock track" as late as 1858. The road was improved in the mid-1860s with some sections near Gundagai " metalled " and all creeks bridged between Adelong Creek (approximately 10 kilometres south of Gundagai and now known as the village of Tumblong) and Albury. Mitchell's route in New South Wales, except for
5092-468: The upgrade, but no timetable had been set for the project. In addition a 4-level interchange between Hume Freeway and the proposed Outer Metropolitan Ring Road is slated to start construction in the 2030s. Duplication works on the highway began in the 1960s and concluded in 2013. The entire route between Sydney and Melbourne is now a dual carriageway, limited access highway . In April 2007, 'point-to-point' fixed speed-camera sites were installed, in
5168-436: The years. By 1811, Parramatta Road had officially opened to traffic and was financed during a large portion of the 19th century by a toll , with toll booths located at what now is Sydney University and the Duck River . Governor Macquarie called tenders for the repair of the road, raised a three shilling per gallon levy on spirits and levied a toll to pay for the work. The road was to be 10 metres wide. This turnpike road
5244-410: Was a poorly built and poorly maintained track through bush. In 1794, the governor of the colony reported that he had caused a very good road to be made, but there is no evidence that any bridges were built over the streams. The road subsequently deteriorated and on 9 June 1805 the Sydney Gazette reported that the road was impassable as the result of heavy rain. Attempts to improve the road continued over
5320-413: Was abandoned, and the WestConnex proposal was later changed to a pair of tunnels parallel to Parramatta Road and connecting to the existing M4 motorway. The new extension was known as M4 East and was eventually built between the end of the existing M4 motorway in North Strathfield and Haberfield , where it connected to the A4 road. The new tunnels opened to traffic in July 2019. The project resulted in
5396-404: Was announced as finished on 15 January 1815. In 1815 the "profit" from the Sydney toll reached £465. The growth of Sydney caused the toll barrier to be moved to Grose Farm (present University of Sydney) in April 1836. In 1839 it was moved further west to Annandale . The colony's first stage coach (valued at £300) was imported in 1821 but did not begin regular service until 1823. The stage left
5472-481: Was completed in 2010. The second stage, widening to 4 lanes each way between St Andrews Road and Raby Road commenced in 2009 and was completed in mid-2011. The final stage, widening to 3 lanes each way between Raby Road and Narellan Road, commenced in September 2010 and was completed in March 2012. Construction of a pedestrian bridge over the highway to link Claymore and Woodbine was also completed. This section of
5548-464: Was opened on 10 April 1811. The toll barriers were at the present Railway Square and at Becket's Creek (near Parramatta). In 1814, a stage cart service was established along Parramatta Road. Fares were 10 shillings for passengers and 3 pence for letters. Heavy rain again nearly destroyed this road, so in 1817 it was announced that all tree-stumps would be removed and the road paved with stone which would be covered with earth and gravel. This improvement
5624-496: Was superseded in 1965 by a concrete box culvert which in turn was superseded by the current route of the highway when it was duplicated in 1972. By contrast, in Victoria there was an early and major change to Mitchell's route. Mitchell's original route between Albury and Melbourne went through Mitchellstown on the Goulburn River and took a long detour to the west of Mount Macedon . In March 1837 Charles Bonney blazed
5700-520: Was trialled from May 2016. Hume Highway has many former route allocations including former National Route 31. Where and when the former route numbers were implemented are stated below. Ashfield – Chullora: Chullora – Warwick Farm: Warwick Farm – Casula: Casula – Prestons: Prestons – Campbelltown: Campbelltown – Ettamogah: Ettamogah – NSW/VIC border: NSW/VIC border – Campbellfield: Hume Highway exits and major intersections are spread across 840 kilometres (520 mi) in
5776-513: Was used as navigation between them. Sometime between 1789 and 1791 an overland track was made to provide an official land route between the two settlements. Parramatta Road dates to the 1792 formation of a route linking Sydney to the settlement of Parramatta. This route was formalised under the direction of Surveyor–General Augustus Alt in 1797. Parramatta Road became one of the colony's most important early roads, and for many years remained one of Sydney's principal thoroughfares. The early road
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