Bylong Valley Way
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New South Wales
The Bylong Valley Way is a connecting road to the east of the Australian state of New South Wales. It connects the Castlereagh Highway and the Bathurst - Ilford Road in Ilford with the Golden Highway at Sandy Hollow. The street is named after the Bylong Valley, which crosses the Great Dividing Range between the Wollemi National Park and the Goulburn River National Park.
Course
The Bylong Valley Way branches off as a continuation of the Bathurst - Ilford Road ( S54) in Ilford from the Castlereagh Highway ( S86) to the east. Soon he turns north and crosses the small towns Kandos and Rylstone. In Rylstone of the Cudgegong River crossing. The trail continues to the north - north-east of the settlement Bylong, just south of the Goulburn River. They crossed the river several times and Growee schließlicha also the Bylong River.
In Bylong the road bends sharply to the east and enters into the eponymous Bylong Valley. The road on the south bank of the Goulburn River and on the border of the two national parks along and pushes in Sandy Hollow on the Goulburn River and the Golden Highway ( S84).
Importance for tourism
Together with the Bathurst - Ilford Road forms the Bylong Valley Way less traveled, but quite promising compound of Bathurst in the Hunter Valley. Access to the two national parks consists of several parts of the Bylong Valley.
After completion of the paving of the road the Muswellbrook Chamber of Commerce created a website and praised the road as a tourist route. The route from Sandy Hollow after Bylong is also advertised elsewhere as a tourist road. It is part of the Upper Hunter Tourist Drive No.. 4, which returns from Bylong about other local roads to the Golden Highway. The Phipps Cutting Picnic Area is specified as a resting place on this route.
The Tablelands Way, a tourist road from Canberra to Muswellbrook, runs between Mudgee and Muswellbrook also on this route.
Attachment
In February 2009, the last piece of the Bylong Valley Way was paved. For decades, the expansion of this road was a political issue. At the beginning of 2007, there were four unattached sections on this road, which had a total of 32 km long. Two of these sections were between Coxs Gap and Bylong, distinguishing between them only 850 meters road were paved. The other two were south of Bylong on the road to Rylstone. There, a few years previously had been asphalted 2 km, which transformed a long, unpaved road section into two shorter.
On 13 December 2006, the Australian federal government announced the partial financing of road development, the AU should cost $ 4.1 million, with AusLink funds in the amount of AU $ 2.0 million. The Department of Motor Vehicles of New South Wales contributed AU $ 900,000 in and the Mid-Western Regional Council was 1.2 million for the remaining AU $ on. The final cost exceeded the predicted total light and the Regional Council had to wear the small additional amount.
The Regional Council could carry out the work in three steps:
- Construction phase 1 (March 2007 - June 2007): Asphalting of two sections south of Bylong (along 6 km); Broadening of the remaining, 9 km long, unpaved road section in preparation for paving.
- Phase 2 (July 2007 - June 2008): Asphalting of the two still unpaved sections south of Bylong (along 12.42 km ); Asphalting a 1- km section in Bylong; Preparation for the paving of the remaining sections.
- Construction phase 3 (July 2008 - March 2009): Asphalting of the last two sections east of Bylong ( together 12.6 km ).
Bridges
Muswellbrook Shire
The dilapidated parts of Kirk 's Bridge, a wooden bridge over the creek in Baerami Bearami were demolished and should be to 31 August 2007 replaced by concrete sections. Unfortunately, the work was delayed because of storm damage by one month. Before the storm, the bridge had been partially renewed, with both runs and two bridge parts were created at one end of the bridge in concrete.
The Muswellbrook Shire Council had maintained for several years to allow heavy vehicles access to the site, a temporary diversion on private land. After reopening the bridge, the detour has been removed and the land returned to the owners.
The one-lane wooden bridge over the Widden Creek also had to be replaced. The Muswellbrook Shire Council had provided for this purpose by 30 uni 2007, the sum of AU $ 480,000, but the difficulties of the Kirks Bridge led to the diversion of funds on this urgent project. The bridge over the Widden Creek was then re-created 1.4 million to 30 June 2009 for AU $. This can take the entire route again now with trucks up to 38 tons.
Mid- Western Region
The Mid-Western Regional Council has the Carwell Bridge replaced between Kandos and Ilford between mid-2009 and mid-2010.
Railway
The railway line from Sandy Hollow after Gulgong and parts of Merriwa Railway Line, which form the Ulan railway line from Muswellbrook to Gulgong after together, follow the same valley as the Bylong Valley Way. In Bylong but the railway line runs westwards, while the road turns to the south.
The railway line crosses the road three times, twice on the same height level crossings and once on a railway bridge over the road. A railroad crossing is located near the Golden Highway, the other near Bylong. The railway bridge is located on the west side of Coxs Gap.
The railway line to Gwabegar crossing the road at a railway crossing in northern Rylstone.
All three crossings are unbeschrankt but have warning lights.