List of road routes in New South Wales

New South Wales

Road routes in New South Wales

Road routes in New South Wales assist drivers navigating roads in urban, rural, and scenic areas of the state. Today, all numbered routes in the state are allocated a letter (M, A or B) in addition to a one- or -two digit number, with 'M' routes denoting motorways, 'A' routes denoting routes of national significance, and 'B' routes denoting routes of state significance. The route system includes the officially designated highways, urban and intercity motorways and arterial roads, and important cross-state roads that have not been declared highways.

History

Route numbers have been allocated to NSW roads since 1955. National Route 1 ('Highway 1') was one of the best known numbered national routes, likely because of its fame for circumnavigating the continent. The insignia of national routes was a five-sided black and white shield, chosen as it is the shape of the Australian national coat of arms.

To supplement the national route number system, three ring roads were introduced to Sydney in 1964.^[1] These were numbered 1, 3 and 5, with relatively (but not proportionately) increasing radii. While they were officially decommissioned in 1974, some old ring road 3 signs remained posted into the 1980s, and ring road 1 signs into the 1990s.

In 1973, a system of freeway numbering was introduced to the state to complement the national routes and ring roads. The shields were replicas of the red, white and blue U.S. Interstate Highway shields, and were numbered F1 to F8. The F1 was the Warringah Freeway, the F2 reserved for the Castlereagh Freeway, a corridor similar to today's M2 Hills Motorway, the F3 is the Pacific Motorway (Sydney–Newcastle section), the F4 was the western part of today's M4 Western Motorway (formerly Western Freeway), the F5 was the freeway section of National Highway 31, the F6 is the Southern Freeway, the F7 was reserved for a corridor similar to today's Cahill Expressway, Eastern Distributor and Bondi Junction Bypass and the F8 was a section of Wollongong's Northern Distributor,^[2] now part of State Route 60. Most of these routes were replaced with other numbers over the decades, and by the 1990s, only the F1, F3 and F6 were still marked as such, with simpler, green-on-white shields. None of these shields remain, but the F3 and F6 are still usually called by those names.

In 1974, the National Highway network was defined, which in New South Wales included the Hume Highway, Federal Highway, Barton Highway, Sydney-Newcastle Freeway (now Pacific Motorway) and New England Highway.^[3] National highways were marked with the same shield as the national routes, except for their green and gold colour and the word 'national' added across the top.

Also in 1974, the three ring roads, 1, 3 and 5, were decommissioned and replaced by new State Routes, which had the same shields as the new freeways but without the red crest. Scores of other State Routes were also designated across New South Wales, marking out urban arterial routes and secondary rural highways. They were allocated as follows:

11, 33 and 55: Respectively replaced ring roads 1, 3 and 5. In 1988, state route 77 was commissioned as an additional primary circumferential route.
12-76: Greater Sydney. Even numbers were radial while odd numbers were circumferential, roughly increasing in value anticlockwise around the City. Exceptions were State Route 31 (which replaced Metroad 5 when the South Western Motorway was extended easterly; Metroad 5 was a replacement of the metropolitan part of National Highway 31) and state route 60 (which is in Wollongong). Routes 36, 40, 56, 68 and 69 extended beyond the bounds of Greater Sydney. While most State Routes still appear on maps and in street directories, they were haphazardly removed and covered up in Sydney in 1998 and 2004, leaving only routes 29, 31, 40, 44, 54, 56, 60 and 69.
78-99: Rural Areas. There was no discernible pattern with these routes. State route 83 was commissioned in 1979 and state route 89 was commissioned in 1980.
111, 121-124, 128, 131-133, 135: Greater Newcastle. 111 was added in 1988 following National Highway 1's relocation to the F3 Freeway.
151, 153, 155 and 157: Greater Wollongong, in addition to state routes 60, 68, 69 and 88.
2: In 2008, Queensland's state route 2 from the Gold Coast was extended a short distance into far northern NSW.

In 1993, Sydney's Metroad system was introduced, with its prominent, blue-on-white hexagonal shields. There were initially six metroads: Metroad 1 replaced National Route 1 within the metropolitan area, Metroad 2 replaced parts of State Routes 28 and 30 (and was subsequently absorbed by the M2 Hills Motorway), Metroad 3 replaced State Route 33 (once Ring Road 3), Metroad 4 replaced the F4 Freeway and the metropolitan part of National Route 32, Metroad 5 replaced part of the metropolitan part of National Highway 31 and Metroad 7 replaced State Route 77. Later, Metroad 6 replaced State Route 45, Metroad 9 replaced the metropolitan part of State Route 69 and Metroad 10 replaced State Route 14 south of Mona Vale. There was never a Metroad 8.

In 2013, the state replaced its entire system of State Routes, National Routes, National Highways and Metroads with an alphanumeric route numbering system. All numbered routes are allocated a letter (M, A or B) in addition to its number, with 'M' routes denoting motorways, 'A' routes denoting routes of national significance, and 'B' routes denoting routes of state significance. Instead of shields, the route numbers are displayed as yellow text on green rectangular background outlined in white. Unlike other Australian states, New South Wales's implementation of alphanumeric route numbers no longer uses National Highway shields on any route. The changeover to alphanumeric routes was announced from March 2013 and signs were updated throughout 2013, either by removing old "shield" coverplates installed on newer signs, or installing new alphanumeric coverplates on old shielded signs.

Motorways (M routes)

Route	Component roads	From	Via	To	Length
M1	Pacific Motorway	Queensland border		Ewingsdale	56 km (35 mi)
	Pacific Motorway	Newcastle		Wahroonga	127 km (79 mi)
	Gore Hill Freeway	Artarmon		Naremburn	3 km (2 mi)
	Warringah Freeway	Naremburn		North Sydney	4 km (2 mi)
	Sydney Harbour Tunnel	North Sydney		Sydney (City)	2.8 km (2 mi)
	Cahill Expressway	Sydney		Woolloomooloo	900 m (984 yd)
	Eastern Distributor	Woolloomooloo		Kensington	6 km (4 mi)
	Princes Motorway	Waterfall		Yallah	53 km (33 mi)
M2	Lane Cove Tunnel	Artarmon		North Ryde	3.6 km (2 mi)
M2	Hills Motorway	North Ryde	Macquarie Park Carlingford Baulkham Hills	Seven Hills	21 km (13 mi)
M4	Western Motorway	North Strathfield	Sydney Olympic Park Parramatta Blacktown	Lapstone	46 km (29 mi)
M5	Southwestern Motorway	Prestons	Padstow Beverly Hills Arncliffe	Kyeemagh	26 km (16 mi)
M7	Westlink M7	Prestons	Horsley Park Blacktown Norwest Business Park	Seven Hills	40 km (25 mi)
M15	Hunter Expressway	Cameron Park		Belford	39 km (24 mi)
M23	Federal Highway	Yarra		ACT border	66 km (41 mi)
M31	Hume Motorway/Hume Highway	Prestons (Sydney)	Goulburn Gundagai Albury	Victoria border	512 km (318 mi)

Routes of national significance (A routes)

Route	Component roads	From	Via	To	Length
A1	Pacific Highway	Ewingsdale		Newcastle	620 km (385 mi)
	Pacific Highway	Wahroonga		Artarmon	15 km (9 mi)
	A1 (Sydney)	Kyeemagh		Waterfall	31 km (19 mi)
	Princes Highway	Yallah		Victoria border	426 km (265 mi)
A2	Old Windsor Road, Windsor Road	Seven Hills		Windsor	21 km (13 mi)
A3	A3 (Sydney)	Mona Vale		Blakehurst	52 km (32 mi)
A4	A4 (Sydney)	North Sydney		North Strathfield	15 km (9 mi)
A6	A6 (Sydney)	Carlingford		Heathcote	34 km (21 mi)
A8	A8 (Sydney)	Mona Vale		North Sydney	23 km (14 mi)
A9	A9 (Sydney)	Campbelltown		Windsor	61 km (38 mi)
A15	New England Highway	Branxton	Tamworth Armidale	Queensland Border	541 km (336 mi)
A15	Newcastle Link Road Thomas Street Newcastle Road Griffiths Road Donald Street Parry Street	Cameron Park		Newcastle West	15 km (9 mi)
A20	Sturt Highway	Gundagai		Victoria Border	597 km (371 mi)
A22	Hume Highway, Parramatta Road	Sydney		Liverpool	30 km (19 mi)
A25	Barton Highway	ACT border		Yass	40 km (25 mi)
A28	Cumberland Highway	Wahroonga		Prestons	42 km (26 mi)
A32	Barrier Highway, Great Western Highway, and Mitchell Highway	Lapstone		Cockburn	1,146 km (712 mi)
A34	Milperra Road, Canterbury Road, New Canterbury Road	Liverpool		Newtown	26 km (16 mi)
A36	Princes Highway, King Street, City Road	Kogarah		Sydney	11 km (7 mi)
A37	Newcastle Inner City Bypass	Windale		Sandgate	16 km (10 mi)
A38	A38 (Sydney)	North Ryde		Dee Why	18 km (11 mi)
A39	Newell Highway	Victoria border	Narranderra Dubbo Narrabri	Queensland border	1,059 km (658 mi)
A40	Victoria Road	Rozelle		West Baulkham Hills	29 km (18 mi)
A41	Mid-Western Highway and Olympic Highway	Bathurst		Albury	423 km (263 mi)
A43	New England Highway, Pacific Highway and Motorway Link	Warnervale		Branxton	115 km (71 mi)
A44	Great Western Highway (Sydney)	Strathfield		Emu Plains	45 km (28 mi)
A48	Illawarra Highway	Sutton Forest		Wollongong	62 km (39 mi)
A49	Central Coast Highway	Doyalson		Kariong	50 km (31 mi)

Routes of state significance (B routes)

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Route	Component roads	From	Via	To	Length
B23	Monaro Highway	ACT border	Cooma	Victoria border
B51	Kamilaroi Highway	Willow Tree		Narrabri
B52	Kings Highway	ACT border		Batemans Bay
B53		Wallsend		Morisset
B55	Castlereagh Highway	Lithgow	Mudgee Gilgandra	Queensland border
B56	Oxley Highway	Port Macquarie		Coonabarabran
B57		Speers Point		Charlestown
B58	Riverina Highway	Deniliquin		Albury
B59	Bells Line of Road	Windsor		Lithgow
B60	Bruxner Highway	Ballina		Boggabilla
B62	Bangalow-Lismore Road	Bangalow		Lismore
B63		Kotara		Nelson Bay
B64	Mid-Western Highway	Cowra		Hay
B65		Bulli Tops	Wollongong	Shellharbour
B68	Cessnock Road, John Renshaw Drive	Beresfield		Cessnock
B69	Appin Road	Campbelltown		Bulli Tops
B70	Sparks Road, Wallarah Road & Main Road	Warnervale		Noraville
B71	Mitchell Highway	Nyngan		Queensland border	338 km (210 mi)
B72	Snowy Mountains Highway	Steeple Flat		Stony Creek	287 km (178 mi)
B73		Mittagong		Nowra
B74	Wyong Road	Tuggerah		Bateau Bay
B75	Cobb Highway	Wilcannia	Deniliquin	Victoria border	598 km (372 mi)
B76	Gwydir Highway and Kamilaroi Highway	South Grafton		Bourke
B78	Waterfall Way	Urunga		Armindale	165 km (103 mi)
B79	Silver City Highway	Curlwaa		Broken Hill
B81	Lachlan Valley Way	Yass		Molong
B82	Freemans Drive and Wine Country Drive	Freemans Waterhole		Branxton
B83	Pacific Highway	Wahroonga		Somersby
B84	Golden Highway	Belford		Dubbo	314 km (195 mi)
B85	Goldfields Way	West Wylong		Junee	113 km (70 mi)
B87	Kidman Way	Jerilderie		Bourke	644 km (400 mi)
B88	Picton Road	Picton		Wollongong	45 km (28 mi)
B89		West Wallsend		Belmont
B91	Summerland Way	Grafton		Queensland border	199 km (124 mi)
B94	Burley Griffin Way	Bowning		Griffith	289 km (180 mi)
B95	Fossickers Way	Tamworth		Warialda

Minor arterial roads

References

↑ "Sydney Ring Roads". Ozroads. 1964-08-28. Retrieved 2013-09-28.
↑ "Northern Distributor". Ozroads. Retrieved 2013-09-28.
↑ "The National Highway System". Ozroads. 1974-09-20. Retrieved 2013-09-28.
↑ "NSW alpha-numeric routes". Ozroads. 2013-09-01. Retrieved 2013-09-28.

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