Warringah Freeway
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New South Wales
The Warringah Freeway (also Warringah Expressway) is an urban motorway in the north of Sydney in the east of the Australian state of New South Wales. It connects the Bradfield Highway in North Sydney Gore Hill Freeway with the Crows Nest.
History
The planning began in 1951. The first section of the road was opened on 18 June 1968. As you can already see from the name, the street should be the first part of a highway from the city of Sydney towards Manly / Warringah. Early plans show the continuation of the highway over Castlecrag. Later, a tour was planned over Castle Cove. This freeway was never built because of protests by local residents in Castlecrag.
Many residential and commercial land, half a golf course and a cemetery were purchased by the government to build the Warringah Freeway.
The freeway originally had four lanes, the outer two each with three lanes, the inner two with two lanes. At peak times, the inner two lanes led in the same direction. The respective times required per day reversing the directions on the freeway and on the Sydney Harbour Bridge was a lengthy process, where many red plastic caps by hand had to be moved. The original north end of the freeways was Chandos St. Cammaray, 1978 with an extension to Willoughby Road was opened. Back then moved to the entrances and exits to Chandos Street into Brook Street.
Only in 1992 the Gore Hill Freeway was opened, connecting the Warringah Freeway to the Pacific Highway. Thus, the road was officially part of Metroad 1 Until then, the Warringah Freeway was only a short city motorway that, oddly enough, ended up in the middle of a suburb, although its southern end was tied with Sydney's best-known, 16 -lane freeway to the Sydney Harbour Bridge.
Present Status
Currently, only more the direction of travel of the western inner roadway reversible; the eastern inner road leads directly into the tunnel towards the south. All roads have been widened, including the emergency lanes. After entering North Sydney the north are 16 lanes available, which can be reduced back to 10 lanes before the exit Brook Street for a short distance. After the exit to Willoughby Road is reconciled only 6 lanes leading to the 1992 Gore Hill Freeway completed.
The division in the area of the road with a changing direction of travel lanes is today largely 4-3-3-3. The outer lanes frequently change in the number of traffic lanes, as they have multiple entrances and exits .. 2007, the connection to the Military Road was rebuilt and received three additional entrances and exits. The Gore Hill Freeway got two more lanes as part of the project, Lane Cove Tunnel. The port on which to begin these five tracks was widened.
The first new connection to the Military Road was opened in June 2006. Most of the traffic heading north now has the right rather than the left of the six lanes extend north on the outer roadway. The old exit ( to the right turn into the Military Road ) had three normal lanes and a bus lane. Today, there are no normal traffic lanes, but two bus lanes. The traffic that will turn into Military Road on the left must keep to the old exit. The reason for this change is used to specify the intention of the traffic that ascended in North Sydney on the freeway and in the Military Road already turned off to again in the future to want to keep away from the freeway, to reduce the congestion.
1990 automated is the process of changing direction with moveable barriers and indicators above the lanes. The change of direction of travel is performed when there are five or six lanes are needed in the south of the Harbour Bridge. Normally, Mon-Fri are at 6.30 clock, or 9.00 clock, changed directions.
After the opening of the Sydney Harbour Tunnel in 1992 we added a permanent bus lane to do so. It runs on the outer road south direction over the Harbour Bridge. This proved to be a great step forward, as so in the morning rush hour more people can be transported to the south than on all other lanes together.
Almost all entrances and exits to the freeway are regulated by traffic lights. Most entrances and exits are not long enough to avoid traffic jams on the freeway, only the Military Road.