Eastern Distributor
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States:
New South Wales
The Eastern Distributor is an urban motorway in the center of Sydney in the east of the Australian state of New South Wales. It connects the Southern Cross Drive in Kensington with the Cahill Expressway in Wooloomooloo. Thus he joins together with its connections to Kingsford Smith International Airport with the city center. The north is the road toll toll booths are located on the road beginning in Wooloomooloo and at the William Street. Since July 2012 the AU $ is the toll for cars and motorcycles AU $ 6.00 and for other vehicles ( buses, commercial vehicles, ) 12,00. 2048, when the contract with the Airport Motorway Ltd. expires, the toll will be abolished.
Course
The Eastern Distributor begins in the southeastern suburb of Kensington as a continuation of the Southern Cross Drive (Met -1). The city highway leads north along the western border of Moore Park. At the northern end of Anzac opens a Drive. From there, almost to its end point in Wooloomooloo the road runs in a trench and in tunnels, through Darlinghurst and connection of William Street ( above ground) and the cross-city tunnel ( S76 ) (underground) in the Western Kings Cross. At the Cathedral Street Tunnel and the Eastern Distributor ends specifies the last 500 meters to the Cowper Wharf Roadway in the Park The Domain, where he goes into the Cahill Expressway (Met -1).
History
For the first time there was talk of the need for an eastern distribution road about 1951. But it was not until the takeover of the Labor Party in Australia under Bob Carr, until you really started with the project.
With its 6 km of the Eastern Distributor was created as a connection of downtown Sydney with the already existing Southern Cross Drive. He should reduce traffic jams between downtown and the airport. During construction, the. Leighton for Airport Motorway Ltd was conducted, 5,000 workers were employed. Thus, the Eastern Distributor was privately financed and privately operated, namely by Transurban. The state took over the planning, support and management of the operator .. The highway cost AU $ 730 million and opened on 19 December 1999 with the connection to the William Street until 23 July 2000 just in time for start of the Olympic Games was opened to traffic. For 48 years the road will remain in private hands and then falls on July 23, 2048 in the state of New South Wales.
Two subcontractors began in January 1996 with the construction of the tunnel for the northbound carriageway, each at one end in Wooloomooloo, or in Surry Hills. Seven drill bits have been used, wherein the ceiling tie rods and liquid concrete has been stabilized. On 4 December 1998, the breakthrough came in the center, 30 m below the Taylor Square. The actual construction work began in August 1997 and in March 1999, the earthworks were completed. 400,000 cubic meters of earth and rock, mostly Hawkesbury Sandstone - corresponding to 40,000 truck loads - were dug.
The most important part of the project is 1.7 km long tunnel under one of the most densely populated urban areas in Australia, which was required by the six-lane expansion of the existing road corridor. The arrangement of three lanes next to each other and the two carriageways over each other led to the need for a single-pass tunnel. Halfway up a prestressed precast concrete ceiling was on the leading north tunnel rests. The tunnel to the south lies beneath. So had to be built together with the walls only a tunnel ceiling.