Southern Freeway
Southern Freeway | |
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Basic data | |
Operator: | Roads and Maritime Services |
Start of the street: |
/ Princes Highway Waterfall ( NSW ) ( 34 ° 8 ′ S , 151 ° 0 ′ E ) |
End of street: |
Princes Highway Yallah ( Wollongong ) ( NSW ) ( 34 ° 32 ′ S , 150 ° 47 ′ E ) |
Overall length: | 39 km |
States : |
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Southern Freeway at Helensburgh |
The Southern Freeway is a motorway in the east of the Australian state of New South Wales . It connects the Princes Highway in Waterfall (south of Sydney in the Royal National Park ) with the Princes Highway in Yallah , a southern suburb of Wollongong . The road is currently part of Australian Route 1 (R1), but was listed as Highway Corridor F6 during the planning phase .
course
The freeway has two sections that are connected by a normal, two-lane road. The northern section begins at Waterfall in Royal National Park, where the highway is a continuation of the Princes Highway (Met-1) to the south. The Princes Highway runs parallel to it as State Road 60 to the south. This first section ends at Bulli Pass , approx. 15 km north of Wollongong.
The southern section begins in the northwest suburbs of Wollongong and ends a little later in Yallah, a southern suburb of this city.
The connecting road between the two parts of the motorway is called Mount Ousley Road and the main secondary road is Picton Road (S88) coming from the west .
Speed limits
On the northern section of the motorway between Waterfall and Bulli Pass, the speed limit is 110 km / h. At the connection to Mount Ousley Road, the permissible top speed drops to 80 km / h. The Mount Ousley Road itself can be driven at up to 100 km / h, which also applies to the southern section of the motorway through Wollongong.
history
When it opened on July 24, 1975, the northern section of the motorway from Waterfall to Bully Pass was subject to tolls. The connection to Helensburgh , which was only opened in February 2000, was still missing on this motorway . The toll payment obligation existed for 20 years, 10 years less than originally planned. The main reason for the lifting of the toll was the complaint by local residents that the Sydney-Newcastle Freeway had been toll-free since 1988. This was because the building loans for this route had been repaid in full at that time. However, this did not apply to the F6 corridor.
After considerable pressure from the population, the toll was also lifted for the F6 corridor on July 30, 1995, because the building loans had now also been repaid in full. Remains of the toll booths can still be seen in Waterfall today. One of the toll lanes and very faded road markings are still visible. There are also covered signs pointing to the toll road in Waterfall, at the Bulli Pass and on the Appin Road (S69) connected there.
renewal
In fact, the 1948 plan provided for an extension of the F6 corridor from Waterfall to the north. The corridor was to run through Royal National Park to St. Peters (north of Kingsford Smith International Airport ).
Of the proposed extension, there is only the Captain Cook Bridge over the Georges River and a short connecting piece in the form of the Taren Point Road on the south bank of the river. Construction of the bridge began in 1962 and opened in May 1965. It replaced a ferry connection that had existed since 1916.
Originally the F6 corridor was supposed to connect to the Western Distributor in downtown Sydney, but in August 1977 the government abandoned these plans.
Crossings and junctions
Southern Freeway | |||
Connections to the north | Distance to Sydney (km) |
Distance to Nowra (km) |
Connections to the south |
End of Southern Freeway and continue as Princes Highway to Sydney |
45 | 116 |
Start of the Southern Freeway from the Princes Highway |
Lake Woronora Old Princes Highway |
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no exit | 55 | 110 | Helensburgh, Stanwell Park Lawrence Hargrave Drive |
Darkes Forest, Helensburgh Old Princes Highway |
53 | 108 | no exit |
Maddens Plains, Darkes Forest, Old Princes Highway |
63 | 98 | Maddens Plains, Darkes Forest, Old Princes Highway |
no exit | 64 | 97 | Appin, Campbelltown Appin Road |
further than the Southern Freeway from Mount Ousley Road |
65 | 96 | Thirroul, Bulli Princes Highway |
Appin, Campbelltown Appin Road |
further than Mount Ousley Road to Wollongong |
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Picton Picton Road |
74 | 87 |
Picton Picton Road |
further than Mount Ousley Road to Picton / Sydney |
80 | 81 |
Wollongong Mount Ousley Road |
further than the Southern Freeway from Mount Ousley Road |
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Keiraville Northfields Avenue |
81.5 | 79.5 | Gwynneville, Keiraville, Wollongong University, University Avenue |
Gwynneville Irvine Street |
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North Wollongong, Bulli Northern distributor |
82 | 79 | no exit |
Dapto, Figtree, Wollongong Princes Highway |
84 | 77 |
Wollongong , Figtree, Dapto Princes Highway |
no exit | - | 75 | Coniston, Port Kembla Masters Road |
Unanderra, Port Kembla Five Islands Road |
88 | 73 |
Port Kembla , Unanderra Five Islands Road |
Warrawong Northcliffe Drive |
91 | 70 | Warrawong Northcliffe Drive |
no exit | 93 | 68 | Kanahooka, Dapto Kanahooka Road |
no exit | 95 | 66 | Koonawarra, Dapto Fowlers Road |
Dapto Princes Highway |
98 | 63 |
At the end of the Southern Freeway, continue as Princes Highway to Kiama / Nowra |
Start of the Southern Freeway from the Princes Highway |
source
Steve Parish: Australian Touring Atlas . Steve Parish Publishing. Archerfield QLD 2007. ISBN 978-1-74193-232-4 . Pp. 22, 25, 35
Individual evidence
- ^ F6 Southern Freeway . Ozroads. Retrieved August 24, 2008
- ^ F6 Southern Freeway Construction . Ozroads: Retrieved August 24, 2008
- ↑ 10 reasons for not building an F6 Motorway (PDF; 490 kB) Sutherland Shire Environment Center. 2005. Retrieved August 30, 2010.
- ↑ F6 Corridor Public Transport Use Assessment (PDF; 4.8 MB) Roads and Traffic Authority . September 2004. Archived from the original on April 4, 2012. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved August 30, 2010.
- ^ A b F6 Southern Freeway: History and Development . Ozroads. Retrieved August 30, 2010.
- ^ Western Distributor - Construction Information . Retrieved May 11, 2011.