Pacific Highway (Australia)

Pacific Highway
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Basic data
Operator:	Roads and Maritime Services
Start of the street:	Bradfield Highway Warringah Freeway North Sydney ( NSW ) ( 33 ° 51 ′ S , 151 ° 13 ′ E ); ; ;
End of street:	Pacific Motorway Gold Coast Highway Tweed Heads ( NSW ) ( 28 ° 11 ′ S , 153 ° 31 ′ E ); ; ;
Overall length:	925 km
States :	New South Wales / Victoria / South Australia
	Pacific Highway - Bridge over the Nowendoc River at Taree

Map with all coordinates: OSM | WikiMap

The Pacific Highway is a trunk road in the east of the Australian state of New South Wales . It connects the Bradfield Highway and the Warringah Freeway in North Sydney with the Pacific Motorway and the Gold Coast Highway in Tweed Heads on the Queensland border . Together with the Pacific Motorway, the road forms a 1,025 km connection from Sydney and Brisbane along the east coast of Australia, which is part of the Australian National Highway 1 .

course

Distances on the Pacific Highway from Sydney

The Pacific Highway begins in Sydney immediately at the northern end of the Sydney Harbor Bridge as a continuation of the Bradfield Highway (Met-1), which leads over the bridge. The Pacific Highway runs northwest through the suburbs of Sydney until it turns north at Hornsby . It passes the national parks north of the metropolis and as a result the highway meanders through several places on the Central Coast to Newcastle . The Sydney-Newcastle Freeway (M1) has been running parallel to this route for several years, relieving the Pacific Highway and the residents of the neighboring cities from through traffic on this section.

The New England Highway (N15) branches off inland at the height of Newcastle . North of Newcastle, the Pacific Highway continues to meander along the coast. Key places to pass are Taree , Port Macquarie , Kempsey , Coffs Harbor , Grafton , Ballina and Murwillumbah before ending in Tweed Heads , on the Queensland border.

The Pacific Motorway (M1) continues the Pacific Highway for the last 100 km after Brisbane. The old route along the coast is now called the Gold Coast Highway (S2)

numbering

no number from North Sydney to Lane Cove (Sydney)
from Lane Cove (Sydney) to Wahroonga (Sydney)
from Wahroonga (Sydney) to Blue Haven
from Blue Haven to Hexham
from Hexham to Tweed Heads

expansion

The Pacific Highway is considered to be one of the more dangerous routes in Australia, with many accidents involving multiple victims occurring every year. This is due to the history of this road connection. The Pacific Highway was not part of the Australian highway system until 1996 and little money was spent on maintaining the road. Up until then, upgrading the road to highway standards or even multi-lane roads was out of the question.

Only since 1997 has there been an agreement between the government of the state of New South Wales and the federal government in the capital Canberra , which ensures the financing of the maintenance and expansion of the roads. In Queensland this was less of a problem, as the development of the Gold Coast meant that there were enough funds available to build the new Pacific Motorway.

There is progress in New South Wales, too, and around half the stretch of the highway had also been upgraded to a four-lane road by 2010. For further expansion there is a program with secured funding until 2016, plans for the partially six-lane expansion of the highway extend until 2025.

source

Steve Parish: Australian Touring Atlas . Steve Parish Publishing. Archerfield QLD 2007. ISBN 978-1-74193-232-4 . Pp. 22, 23, 25, 27, 29

Pacific Highway at Woolgoolga