Bass Highway, Tasmania

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Tasmania

The Bass Highway is a highway in the north of the Australian state of Tasmania. For long stretches, it runs along the north coast of the island and is the only connection to the northwestern tip. From Launceston to Burnie the Bass Highway to National Highway 1 part from Burnie to Marrawah, in the northwest of Tasmania, it is run as a state highway A2.

• 2.1 Origin of the name
• 2.2 Umtrassierungen

Course

From Launceston to Burnie ( N1)

The Bass Highway begins in the southern suburbs of Launceston as a continuation of the Midland Highway ( N1) and first heads to the west, past the towns of Westbury and Deloraine. In this area the new trassierte motorway is (see below) in parallel with the Meander Valley Highway ( B54 ).

After Deloraine she turns to the northwest and reached at the port city of Devonport the north coast of the island. About Ulverstone she now continues on its way along the coast to Burnie, where the Ridgley Highway ( B18 ) branches off to the south.

From Burnie to Marrawah (A2 )

From the Bass Highway Burnie continues to follow the coast, but is now no longer national road, but Tasmanian State Street. In Somerset branches off the Murchison Highway ( A10), the most important link to the west coast of the island, to the south. Further to the north west of the Bass Highway bypasses the town of Wynyard and then the Rocky Cape National Park.

South of Stanley, the highway reaches its northernmost point. There branches Stanley Road ( B21) to the north on the same peninsula, while the Bass Highway turns west to the town of Smithton. There he leaves the north coast and through the interior to its end point in the settlement Marrawah in the northernmost part of the west coast.

History

Origin of the name

The Bass Highway is named after the ship's surgeon George Bass of Captain Matthew Flinders, who has the Bass Strait, a shipping route between Tasmania and Australia discovered.

Umtrassierungen

Many parts of the Bass Highway was realigned since 1980. This began with the construction of the Southern Outlet, Launceston, which connects downtown with the Midland Highway and emerged in the early 1980s. Simultaneously, the Bass Highway was extended so that it connected with the new piece of road. Since that time, the highway was extended almost the entire length of four lanes to Burnie, provided with passing lanes and small towns received bypasses.

On the route Launceston - Deloraine this Hadspen and Carrick was concerned in the 1980s and Deloraine himself in the 1990 Ahren. The longest bypass in this area, for the cities of Hagley and Westbury, was completed in 2001. The old route is now called Meander Valley Highway ( B54 ) and is touted as a tourist route.

The route Latrobe Somerset was treated in the same way. There, the population was more likely to agree because the highway there is the rush hour in many areas and should be seen less as a tourist route. The economy there is not so much dependent on tourists.

Source

Steve Parish: Australian Touring Atlas. Steve Parish Publishing, Archerfield QLD 2007. ISBN 978-1-74193-232-4. Pp. 55, 60, 61

• Road in Tasmania