Pennant Hills Road
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New South Wales
The Pennant Hills Road is a highway in the northern and western suburbs of Sydney in the east of the Australian state of New South Wales. It connects the Pacific Highway and the Sydney - Newcastle Freeway at Wahroonga and the city center of Parramatta.
History
The Pennant Hills Road was built in 1820 as a dirt road that was used by woodcutters. It was measured by surveyor James Meehan and served as a road from the loading bays in Ermington to the sawmill in Pennant Hills, which had been founded in 1816 by Governor Lachlan Macquarie. Later it was connected to the Pacific Highway (Met -1) and was partly as a continuation of the same.
Over the years, she made the following numbering:
- Ring road 5 (1964-1974)
- State Road 55 (1974-1988)
- State Road 77 (1988-1993)
- Metroad 7 (since 1993, in December 2005 only to the Hills Motorway )
- Metroad 6 (since 2005, from the Hills Motorway )
Course
The road begins in Wahroonga at Pearce 's Corner, the junction with the Pacific Highway (Met -1 / S83 ). The Sydney - Newcastle Freeway (R1 ) ends a few hundred meters further south also at the Pennant Hills Road. It runs south-west through the towns of Hornsby Shire, Normanhurst, Thornleigh and Pennant Hills. In Thornleigh the Comenarra Parkway crosses a larger arterial road that begins at the Ryde Road West Pymble. In the evening there may be traffic jams on this intersection.
In Pennant Hills crosses the road, the Northern Railway Line. The Boundary Road ( northwest ) and the Beecroft Road (from ) Ryde a lead. In West Pennant Hills ends, also from the northwest, the Castle Hill Road. At this junction the mid- 1990s, a tunnel was built, which makes it easier to turn on the Pennant Hills Road towards Parramatta.
The road then turns south and crosses the Hills Motorway (Met -2) and the North Rocks Road. Further south, opens the Carlingford Road one of the west. Again, just south of the junction bends the Pennant Hills Road from the southeast, while the Marsden Road as Met -6 continues into town. The road crosses the railway line to Carlingford and Telopea reached the suburbs and North Parramatta. In this area, the road is part of the Cumberland Highway.
Then the Pennant Hills Road continues southwest to the center of Parramatta, where it ends at the Church Street ( S40).
State of development and speed limits
The short distance from the Pacific Highway to the Sydney - Newcastle Freeway is the road widened to four lanes and limited to 60 km / hr. From there until the junction with Hills Motorway it is six lanes and the speed limit is 70 km / h From the Hills Motorway to the Parramatta Pennant Hills Road is four lanes again and the speed is limited to 60 km / hr.
Except for certain areas of schools where zwischen 8.30 und 9.30 clock clock, and between 14.30 und 16.00 clock clock speed is limited to 40 km / hr.
Traffic congestion
The Pennant Hills Road has always been a main route between Parramatta and Hornsby, but through the traffic of these arterial roads is especially morning and afternoon can be expected at peak times with traffic congestion. It is the only road connecting the Sydney - Newcastle Freeway and the Met- 2 towards Lithgow. In 2002, the average daily load was 62 656 vehicles; on densely minutely the traffic at Thompsons Corner.
Plans for a connection of the Sydney - Newcastle Freeway to the planned Northwest Freeway was the government at the end of the 20th century. Now, to be made a freeway connection to the Met 2.
Since 2006, we examined the possibility of a tunnel as a link between the two highways. Since the area is heavily built up, a connection without a tunnel would be hardly conceivable. Because of the large number of private homes and schools along the route but make sure the exhaust gases that would escape from a tunnel, represents a serious problem