Southern Freeway

Southern Freeway
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 :	New South Wales
Southern Freeway at Helensburgh

 Map with all coordinates: OSM | WikiMap

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

Entrance to the Southern Freeway in Waterfall, heading south

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

The six-lane Captain Cook Bridge from Sans Souci to Taren Point

Taren Point Road

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
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
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
Keiraville Northfields Avenue	81.5	79.5	Gwynneville, Keiraville, Wollongong University, University Avenue
Gwynneville Irvine Street
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

1. ^ F6 Southern Freeway . Ozroads. Retrieved August 24, 2008
2. ^ F6 Southern Freeway Construction . Ozroads: Retrieved August 24, 2008
3. ↑ 10 reasons for not building an F6 Motorway (PDF; 490 kB) Sutherland Shire Environment Center. 2005. Retrieved August 30, 2010.
4. ↑ 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. 
5. ^ ^{A b} F6 Southern Freeway: History and Development . Ozroads. Retrieved August 30, 2010.
6. ^ Western Distributor - Construction Information . Retrieved May 11, 2011.