Pennant Hills Road
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 / Pacific Highway Wahroonga ( Sydney ) ( NSW ) ( 33 ° 43 ′ S , 151 ° 6 ′ E ) |
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 Church Street Parramatta ( NSW ) ( 33 ° 48 ′ S , 151 ° 0 ′ E ) |
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| Overall length: | 20 km | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Map with all coordinates: The Pennant Hills Road is a highway in the northern and western suburbs of Sydney in the east of the Australian state of New South Wales . It connects the Pacific Highway and the Sydney-Newcastle Freeway in Wahroonga with Parramatta city center .
history
Pennant Hills Road was built in 1820 as a dirt road used by loggers. It was measured by land surveyor James Meehan and served as a road from the loading docks in Ermington to the sawmill in Pennant Hills , which was founded in 1816 by Governor Lachlan Macquarie . Later it was connected to the Pacific Highway (Met-1) and was at times a continuation of the same.
Over the years it was numbered as follows:
- Ringstrasse 5 (1964–1974)
- State road 55 (1974–1988)
- State road 77 (1988-1993)
- Metroad 7 (since 1993, in December 2005 only up to Hills Motorway )
- Metroad 6 (since 2005, from the Hills Motorway)
course
The road begins in Wahroonga at Pearce's Corner , the junction with the Pacific Highway (Met-1 / S83). The Sydney-Newcastle Freeway (R1) also ends a few hundred meters further south on Pennant Hills Road. It runs southwest through the towns of Hornsby Shire , Normanhurst, Thornleigh and Pennant Hills . In Thornleigh, the Comenarra Parkway crosses , a major arterial road that begins on Ryde Road in West Pymble . In the evening there may be traffic jams at this intersection.
The road crosses the Northern Railway Line in Pennant Hills . The Boundary Road (from North-West) and the Beecroft Road (from) Ryde a lead. In West Pennant Hills , also opens from the northwest, the Castle Hill Road one. A tunnel was built at this junction in the mid-1990s, which makes it easier to turn onto Pennant Hills Road towards Parramatta.
The road then turns south and intersects the Hills Motorway (Met-2) and North Rocks Road . Carlingford Road joins further south from the west. Again a little south of this junction, Pennant Hills Road turns south-east, while Marsden Road continues into town as Met-6. The road crosses the railway line to Carlingford and reaches the suburbs of Telopea and North Parramatta . In this area the road is part of the Cumberland Highway .
Pennant Hills Road then continues southwest into Parramatta town center, where it ends at Church Street (S40).
Development status and speed restrictions
The short distance from the Pacific Highway to the Sydney-Newcastle Freeway has four lanes and is limited to 60 km / h. From there to the intersection with the Hills Motorway it is six lanes and the speed limit is 70 km / h. From the Hills Motorway to Parramatta, Pennant Hills Road is again four lanes and the speed is limited to 60 km / h.
Exceptions are some zones of schools, where the speed is limited to 40 km / h between 8.30 a.m. and 9.30 a.m. and between 2.30 p.m. and 4.00 p.m.
Traffic jams
Pennant Hills Road has always been a major thoroughfare between Parramatta and Hornsby, but the traffic on the aforementioned arterial roads means that traffic jams can be expected, especially in the mornings and afternoons at rush hour. It is the only link between the Sydney-Newcastle Freeway and the Met-2 towards Lithgow . In 2002, the average daily load was 62,656 vehicles; the traffic is closest at Thompsons Corner .
At the end of the 20th century, the government abandoned plans to connect the Sydney-Newcastle Freeway to the planned North West Freeway . Now a freeway connection to the Met-2 is to take place.
Since 2006 the possibility of a tunnel connecting the two highways has been investigated. Since the area is heavily built up, a connection without a tunnel would be hardly conceivable. Due to the large number of private houses and schools along the route, the exhaust gases that would escape from a tunnel are a serious problem.
Web links
- F3 to Sydney Orbital Link Study
- Pennant Hills Road: The Options . Planning and Development. Hornsby Shire Council
source
Steve Parish: Australian Touring Atlas . Steve Parish Publishing. Archerfield QLD 2007. ISBN 978-1-74193-232-4 . P. 22