Bruxner Highway

Bruxner Highway
New South Wales
General information
Type Highway
Length 419 km (260 mi)
Route number(s)
Former
route number
Major junctions
West end
 
East end
Location(s)
Major settlements
Yetman

Bonshaw Tenterfield Drake Tabulam Casino Lismore Alstonville

Highway system
Highways in Australia
National Highway • Freeways in Australia
Highways in New South Wales

The Bruxner Highway is one of the more obscure State highways in New South Wales, Australia.

The highway forms an east-west link from the Northern Rivers coast, across the Northern Tablelands in northern New South Wales, close to the border with Queensland. It is named in honour of Michael Bruxner, member for Northern Tablelands and Tenterfield from 1920 to 1962, leader of the New South Wales Country Party for almost all that period and Deputy Premier and Minister for Transport from 1932 to 1941.[1]

Route

The Bruxner Highway at Drake.

The Bruxner Highway[2] starts at the junction with the Pacific Highway at Ballina and links Lismore, Casino, Mummulgum, Drake, Tenterfield, Bonshaw and Boggabilla where it terminates with the Newell Highway.

This state based road forms an important link between Ballina and Casino via Lismore. At Alstonville (near Ballina), a $90 million bypass has been allocated from the Federal Government at the cost of funds from the National Highway scheme. There is a proposed dual carriageway between Ballina (Teven Interchange) and Casino which upgrades the Alstonville Bypass and a new alignment from near Wollongbar Tafe and bypasses Goonellabah, Lismore and joins up to the existing Bruxner Highway at Clovass near Casino and dual carriageway until the built up area in Casino. The upgrade will name the route Bruxner Motorway (M60) also known as Northern Rivers Expressway. Further west from Tenterfield and the Bruxner Highway runs parallel and close to the Dumaresq River along with the Queensland border to Goondiwindi via Boggabilla and the Newell Highway.

National Route 44 was only signposted from the Pacific Highway near Ballina to the New England Highway in Tenterfield. It was intended that National Route 44 continued to Boggabilla to meet with the Newell Highway, however primarily because the highway is administered by the local government, as well as a short 4 km unsealed section between Yetman and Boggabilla, which goes against the route numbering protocol to not sign routes on unsealed roads, this part of the highway was never signed as National Route 44.

In 2013, as part of the alphanumeric route scheme, B60 replaced National Route 44 between Ballina and Tenterfield

Major intersections

LGALocationkm[3]miDestinationsNotes
Moree PlainsBoggabilla00 Newell Highway (A39) – Moree, GoondiwindiWestern highway terminus, continues north as Newell Highway
7.94.9Boggabilla–Warialda Road – North Star, Warialda
InverellYetman60.437.5 Warialda Road (B95)  – Warialda, Inverell
Texas10163Texas Road – Texas
Bonshaw13081Inverell–Bonshaw Road – Ashford, Inverell
TenterfieldTenterfield230143 New England Highway (A15 / B60 south) – Warwick, TenterfieldEastbound traffic continues south on New England Highway
Gap in route
TenterfieldTenterfield235146 New England Highway (A15 / B60 north) – Glen Innes, Bonshaw, WarwickWestbound traffic continues north on New England Highway
Clarence River306190Tabulam Bridge
KyogleTabulam314195Clarence Way – Baryulgil, Grafton
Richmond ValleyCasino361224 Summerland Way (B91) south – GraftonB91 southern concurrency terminus; roundabout
Richmond River362225Irving Bridge
Richmond ValleyCasino363226 Summerland Way (B91) west – Kyogle, WoodenbongB91 northern concurrency terminus; roundabout
LismoreSouth Lismore391243Union Street north / Elliot Road west – Kyogle, NimbinRoundabout
Wilsons River392244Bridge over river
LismoreLismore393244 Dawson Street to Bangalow Road (B62) – Clunes, Bangalow, Byron BayRoundabout
BallinaWest Ballina420261 Pacific Highway (A1) – Ballina, Gold Coast, Brisbane, Grafton, Coffs Harbour, SydneyRoundabout interchange; eastern highway terminus
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi

See also

References

  1. ↑ Aitkin, Don. "Bruxner, Sir Michael Frederick (1882 - 1970)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Australian National University. Retrieved 2007-04-05.
  2. ↑ Bruxner Highway, Ozroads: the Australian Roads Website. Retrieved on 9 April 2010.
  3. ↑ Google (2 June 2014). "Bruxner Highway" (Map). Google Maps. Google. Retrieved 2 June 2014.

External links

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