Highways in New South Wales

The present system of highways of New South Wales, Australia was created in August 1928, when the Country Roads Board, the predecessor of today's Department of Main Roads and the Roads and Traffic Authority replaced the 1924 resulting classification of the main roads and a new system that is still now applies introduced. A complete list of all the main roads was published by the government of New South Wales on August 17, 1928. Then the highways have a number other than the street number with which the highway is signposted, for example, the Great Western Highway number 5 in the administration, he is signposted as National Route for administrative purposes 32

History

While highways in many other countries typically carry a number Highways in Australia, New South Wales are included, usually under a name known. The names of godparents are often explorers of the 19th century, important politicians or geographic regions. An exception to the National Highway 1 He is one of the most famous highways and leads to 24,000 km along the coast around the entire continent. In addition, the National Highway 31, also known relative Hume Highway on their number.

The top level of the hierarchy of highways in Australia, are the federally-funded National Highways; they link the capitals of each other. National Highways in New South Wales include the Hume Highway between Sydney and Melbourne, the New England Highway between Newcastle and Brisbane, the Newell Highway from Brisbane to Melbourne or Federal and Barton Highway linking Canberra to the Hume Highway.

Numbering

In New South Wales the National Route numbers for highways will be awarded since 1955. The highways under the administration of the State of New South Wales are referred to as National Routes and State Routes as. The badge of the street numbering for National Routes consists of a five-sided sign with black and white background, the shape is based on the Australian coat of arms. For the National Highway, the same form is used, but in green and gold, and with the National lettering at the top of the shield.

In addition to the numbering system for the National Routes 1964, the so-called Ring Roads ( ring roads) have been introduced. They ran circular in increasing radii around Sydney and wore the numbers 1, 3 and 5, although the term is no longer valid since 1974, were signs of the old Ring Road 3 to the 1980s and the Ring Road 1 to the get 1990s.

1973 a system was introduced for the numbering of freeways to the existing National Routes and Ring Roads supplement. The signs of the freeways were very similar to the red, white, blue markings of U.S. Interstates and wore the numbers F1 to F8. The F1 was the Warringah Freeway, which was reserved for the F2 Castlereagh Freeway, along the route similar to today's de'm Hills Motorway, the F3 was the Sydney - Newcastle Freeway, the F4 was the western part of present-day Western Motorway (formerly Western Freeway) that was the F5 freeway -developed part of the National Highway 31, the F6 was the Southern Freeway assigned, the F7 was reserved for a distance along the Cahill Expressway today, Eastern Distributor and Bondi Junction bypass and the F8 was a section of the northern distributor of Wollongong, now part of State Route 60 most of these signs have been replaced over the decades by other numbers and contributed in the 1990s, only the F1, F3 and F6 their original name. However, the coloring of the plates was changed to a simple green on a white background. Today, neither the numbering system nor the signs exist, but the F3 and F6 are still known by that name.

The still used system of Metroads was installed in 1993. It bears the distinctive hexagonal plates with blue lettering on a white background. Originally there were six Metroads: Metroad 1 replaced the National Route 1 in the city of Sydney, Metroad 2 replaced parts of State Routes 28 and 30 (and was gradually for Hills Motorway ), Metroad 3 originated from the old Ring Road 3, Metroad 4 went out of the F4 Freeway and a portion of National Route 32 out, replaced the Metroad 5 located in the urban area part of the National Highway 31 and Metroad 7 originated from the State Route 77 Later replaced Metroad 6 State Route 45, Metroad 9 replaced the running in Sydney part of State Route 69 and 10 Metroad finally walked out of the State Route 14, south of Mona Vale forth. A Metroad 8 has never existed.

Currently, the New South Wales prepares the complete system from State Routes, National Routes, National Highway and Metroads to be replaced by an alphanumeric system. Until, however, was not determined when the change is to take place. All new signs are already mounted on the highways, but obscured with a panel.

Types of road

Most of the highways in New South Wales are two lanes, with one lane in each direction. There are few freeways, with multiple lanes in each direction, dual carriageways and intersection-free exits and entrances similar to the German motorways. Today, 98 % of the located in New South Wales portion of the Hume Highway ( in Victoria is 100 %) expanded highway-like, but the remaining portions are to 2013 [ deprecated] be completed as soon as the bypass of Holbrook is completed. In addition, 54 % of the Pacific Highway is four lanes available. With a full completion is in 2016Vorlage: Future / Measured in 2 years.