New South Head Road

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New South Wales

The New South Head Road is a main road in the eastern suburbs of Sydney in the east of the Australian state of New South Wales. It connects the Cross City Tunnel in Rushcutters Bay with the Old South Head Road in Vaucluse.

Course

The New South Head Road begins at the western end of the cross-city tunnel in the eastern suburb of Rushcutters Bay and runs along the south-east of the bays of Sydney Harbour to the northeast. She runs through the suburbs Edge Cliffe, Double Bay, Point Piper and Rose Bay. Finally, it ends south of South Head, where sic in Vaucluse on the Old South Head Road meets (the connection to Bondi Beach).

History

Maroo track

Before the construction of this road, the South Head Road set (now Old South Head Road / Oxford Street ) is the main connection to the southern cape of the port of Sydney dar. 1831 began the construction of the New South Head Road, the Maroo track the Aboriginal followed. Until then, use only Aborigines and the crew of the lookout at South Head this way.

Construction of the first road

In the early years they came with the construction progress is slow and so emerged only gradually parts of the road. The work was hard, because it ( in Rushcutters Bay, Double Bay and Rose Bay ) and steep cliffs were on the route Küstentsumpfland ( in Vaucluse and Watsons Bay ). In Bushland to the Maroo track it should exceptionally have been many snakes. From 1834 onwards, the work went quickly and the road took shape. At the crossing of the Rushcutters Creek emerged over the years different bridges. The first wooden bridge was built in 1834, but was soon replaced by a stone bridge, which was built from 1837 to 1839 and was named " Bentley 's Bridge ". It was built by convicts under the supervision of Lieutenant ACD Bentley. End of the 1830s, the road from Rushcutters Bay to Vaucluse was finished and expanded so that it was suitable for horse and cart. Thus, it was for the people of Sydney only last a road on the south shore of the harbor along.

South Head Road 's Trust

Because of the bad condition of the New South Head Road and its southern predecessor, the Old South Head Road, the government created a society in May 1848. The company should take care of the maintenance of the 24 km long road. To finance the maintenance, the company raised a toll. A toll booth was set up at New South Head Road and each user had to pay there. Much to the annoyance of the inhabitants of the newly established suburbs on the South Head, Vaucluse such, the Company used the funds received but not approved and so the condition of the road was bad, until the company was finally dissolved in 1904.

Growing importance

After the new road was finished, came along it soon many suburbs and thus also a need for public and private services. End of the 19th century a number of schools on the road were built, the Sacred Heart Convent (now Kincoppal, 1882), the Kambala Girls School (1884), the Ascham School ( 1886), and the Cranbrook School, 20 years was established later in Rose Bay. In 1920 there also a Roman Catholic church, St Mary Magdalene. Even office buildings were built on the street as the police station in Rose Bay (1930) and the Woollahra Council Chambers in Double Bay (1947). In addition, resulting in a range of leisure facilities, such as parks, yacht clubs and the Royal Sydney Golf Club ( 1896).

Extension

In the 1930s, New South Head Road, a main thoroughfare had become the rich suburbs combined on the edge of the harbor and the city center of Sydney. The road itself but had since its construction changed little since the dissolution of the South Head Road 's Trust in 1904, conditions had deteriorated further. So the search began in 1932 with basic improvement works, which included an extension for the modern motor vehicles. The broadening caused by the construction of dikes in Rose Bay, and Rushcutters Bay. The dike in Rose Bay was in 1928 mostly finished, but the Rushcutters Bay was not completed until the end of 1932. In 1970 the road was widened again and the beginning of the 1980s it was widened to four lanes.

Tram

End of the 19th century, a tram line on the New South Head Road was created. The Watson 's Bay Line went from Wynyard and reached the New South Head Road in Rushcutters Bay, where north of the road was also the custodian of the line. 1894, the line was extended to Edgecliff and 1909 there was a further extension to Watson 's Bay. In Vaucluse, where the New South Head Road was one lane, the tram line left the road again. With the first widening of the road in the 1920s and early 1930s, the tram tracks were laid in the middle of the street. In 1949 the tram line between Rose Bay and Watson 's Bay was abandoned, but in 1950, after public protest, reopened. 1960 but was adjusted despite a protest the entire line.

Today

Today, the street serves as an important link to the city of Sydney for the mostly inhabited by middle and upper class suburbs of Woollahra City. There are frequent traffic congestion, especially at peak times. Several bus lines on the road, the bus numbers 324, 325, 326, 327, L24 and the tourist bus line 222 in Edgecliff there is a larger bus depot and a train station. The Watson 's Bay Ferry stops at various points along the road, such as Rose Bay and Double Bay. The New South Head Road also lies on the route of the City2Surf - people run and is notorious (known as "Heartbreak Hill " ) for its steep rise of Rose Bay to Vaucluse.

Swell

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• The Australian Council of National Trusts ( ed.): Historic Houses of Australia. Cassell Australia, North Melbourne 1974, ISBN 0-304-93935-8.
• Steve Parish: Australian Touring Atlas. Steve Parish Publishing, Archerfield QLD 2007, ISBN 978-1-74193-232-4, p 22