Burley Griffin Way

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New South Wales

The Burley Griffin Way is a main road in the south of the Australian state of New South Wales. It connects the Hume Highway southwest of Bowning with the Kidman Way to Griffith.

Name origin and meaning

The road was after Walter Burley Griffin, an American architect, named. Burley Griffin had designed the cities of Canberra and Griffith.

It combines - along with the Hume Highway and the Barton Highway - the two cities. Its economic importance lies in the connection of the Western Riverina and the Murrumbidgee River in the areas to the markets in Sydney, Melbourne, Canberra unc. The heavy traffic makes up a large proportion of the total traffic on this road.

Course

Southwest of Bowning branches of the Burley Griffin Way on Hume Highway ( N31 ​​) to the north- west. At this point, recently a bypass of Bowning was built across the street runs and received a new connection to the Hume Highway. About Binalong and Harden the Burley Griffin Way leads to the village of Wallendbeen where it crosses the Olympic Highway ( R41).

About Temora, where the road to the Goldfields Way ( S85) crosses, they will continue on to West - northwest to the Newell Highway ( N39 ), with whom she jointly runs about 12 km until Ardlethan. Next, the path leads to the west, past the Cocoparra National Park, about Yenda to Griffith, where it ends at the Kidman Way ( S87 ).

Source

Steve Parish: Australian Touring Atlas. Steve Parish Publishing. Archerfield QLD 2007 ISBN. 978-1-74193-232-4. Page 33 34

• Road in New South Wales