Newcastle Inner City Bypass
Newcastle Inner City Bypass | |
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Coordinates | |
General information | |
Type | Highway |
Length | 15.6 km (9.7 mi) (upon completion) |
New Lambton Heights (7.6 km) |
- Warners Bay Road
- Hillsborough Road
- Myall Road
- Carnley Avenue
- Cardiff Road
Jesmond – Sandgate (4.9 km) |
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Jesmond
- University Drive
- Sandgate Road
Newcastle Inner City Bypass is a freeway in Newcastle and Lake Macquarie, New South Wales, Australia. Originally cobbled together from a collection of arterial roads, it has been slowly upgraded and lengthened in sections over the years to a motorway-standard bypass through the inner western suburbs of Newcastle.
Route
The road is divided into five sections.
With the third section of the route not yet completed, a more circuitous route through suburban roads remains in use for the gap between the second and fourth sections. From the end of the Charlestown Bypass, it is necessary to follow Lookout Road, which becomes Croudace Street, before turning left onto Newcastle Road. Approximately 1.3 km (0.8 mi) after turning left, the Inner City Bypass is rejoined by turning right at the Jesmond roundabout.
History
The Newcastle Inner City Bypass route was first planned in the 1950s to connect the Bennetts Green area to Pacific Highway at Sandgate; it was approved in 1957 and subsequently incorporated in the
The passing of the Main Roads Act of 1924
The passing of the Roads Act of 1993[6] through the Parliament of New South Wales updated road classifications and the way they could be declared within New South Wales. Under this act, the declaration of Highway 23 runs from the intersection with Pacific Highway at Windale via West Charlestown Bypass, Charlestown and Lookout and Croudace Roads to Newcastle Road at Lambton, then from Newcastle Road at Jesmond to Pacific Highway at Sandgate.[7] Despite its classification as a Highway, it still has no officially gazetted name, and is known only locally as Newcastle Inner City Bypass.
Newcastle Inner City Bypass was signed State Route 123 along its entire length in 1974, moving to new sections of the bypass as they opened. With the conversion to the newer alphanumeric system in 2013, this was replaced with route A37.[8]
Construction
The Newcastle Inner City Bypass was not built in a contiguous fashion, with separate sections opened slowly at different times over the following 50 years.
The second section, a 2.4km-long section between
The fourth section of the bypass, a 3.2km-long section between Newcastle Road at Jesmond and Sandgate Road at Shortland and previously known as the "Jesmond to Shortland Relief Route", was the first portion of freeway-standard road to be approved in January 1981. Construction started in May 1984, and the road was opened to traffic in June 1993.[9]
The first section, the 6.5km West Charlestown Bypass, commenced earthworks construction in July 2000, and was opened to traffic in early 2003.[10]
Pre-construction works for the fifth (northernmost) section, the 2.3km-long section between Sandgate Road at Shortland and
In June 2014, the NSW Government announced it would provide $280 million to complete the third section (i.e. Rankin Park to Jesmond section) of the bypass, including $150 million from Restart NSW.[15] It includes building a new and improved entrance to the John Hunter Hospital. In February 2019, it was approved by the state government.[16] Major construction began in late 2021, targeting completion in mid 2025.[3]
Interchanges
LGA | Location | km | mi | Destinations | Notes |
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Southern terminus of Newcastle Inner-City Bypass and route A37 at traffic lights | |||||
Lake Street, Windale | |||||
Warners Bay | Half-diamond interchange woth one roundabout, northbound entry and southbound exit only | ||||
4.1 | 2.5 | Hillsborough Road (B57), Warners Bay | Dogbone interchange | ||
Kotara South | 5.3 | 3.3 | Myall Road, Cardiff, Kotara | Northbound entry and exit only | |
Kotara | 5.5 | 3.4 | Charlestown Road/Park Avenue/Johnson Street, Cardiff, Kotara | Southbound entry and exit only | |
5.6 | 3.5 | Main Northern railway line through Tickhole Tunnel | |||
6.2 | 3.9 | Carnley Avenue, Broadmeadow | Traffic lights | ||
New Lambton Heights | 6.8 | 4.2 | Cardiff Road – Cardiff | Traffic lights | |
7.6 | 4.7 | McCaffrey Drive – Wallsend | |||
Lookout Road – Lambton, John Hunter Hospital | Route A37 continues north along Lookout Road at traffic lights | ||||
Rankin Park | Newcastle Inner City Bypass, section 3 | Rankin Park to Jesmond section under construction[3] | |||
Jesmond | 10.7 | 6.6 | Newcastle Road (A15 west, A15/A37 east) – Lambton, Newcastle, Charlestown, Wallsend | Roundabout; route A37 continues east along Newcastle Road | |
University of Newcastle | Roundabout interchange | ||||
Hunter Wetlands Centre | Partial offset dumbbell interchange, no southbound exit | ||||
Main North railway line | |||||
15.6 | 9.7 | Northern terminus of Newcastle Inner-City Bypass and route A37 at traffic lights | |||
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi
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See also
- Highways in Australia
- List of freeways in Australia
- List of highways in New South Wales
References
- ^ a b "Main Roads Act, 1924-1945". Government Gazette of the State of New South Wales. No. 90. National Library of Australia. 16 August 1946. p. 1846. Archived from the original on 19 September 2022. Retrieved 19 September 2022.
- ^ "Newcastle Inner City Bypass". Roads & Traffic Authority. 17 September 2010. Archived from the original on 20 October 2010. Retrieved 26 February 2011.
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- ^ a b Barker, Sarah (4 March 2008). "Rankin Park to Jesmond – Submissions Report, RTA, March 2008" (PDF). Roads & Traffic Authority. Archived from the original (PDF) on 19 March 2011. Retrieved 26 February 2011.
- ^ State of New South Wales, An Act to provide for the better construction, maintenance, and financing of main roads; to provide for developmental roads; to constitute a Main Roads Board Archived 11 August 2022 at the Wayback Machine 10 November 1924
- ^ State of New South Wales, An Act to make provision with respect to the roads of New South Wales; to repeal the State Roads Act 1986, the Crown and Other Roads Act 1990 and certain other enactments; and for other purposes. Archived 11 August 2022 at the Wayback Machine 10 November 1924
- ^ Transport for NSW (August 2022). "Schedule of Classified Roads and Unclassified Regional Roads" (PDF). Government of New South Wales. Archived from the original (PDF) on 25 August 2022. Retrieved 1 August 2022.
- Roads & Maritime Services. Government of New South Wales. 2012. Archived from the original(PDF) on 25 March 2016. Retrieved 7 November 2016.
- ^ "RTA Annual Report 1992-93" (PDF). Roads & Traffic Authority. Sydney. October 1993. p. 70.
- ^ A Colenbrander; W Davies; R Handley (23 March 2004). "West Charlestown Bypass: Construction of Urban Freeway Embankments using High Plasticity Clays" (PDF). GHD Group. Archived from the original (PDF) on 14 September 2007. Retrieved 26 February 2011.
- ^ "Archived Tender Detail View – RTA.09.2535.2697". Roads & Traffic Authority. 22 March 2010. Retrieved 26 February 2011.
- ^ "Proposed upgrade of Newcastle Inner City Bypass between Shortland and Sandgate". Roads & Traffic Authority. 18 February 2011. Archived from the original on 16 March 2011. Retrieved 26 February 2011.
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- ^ Davis, Belinda-Jane (16 January 2014). "Bypass opening next week, expressway soon". Newcastle Herald. Retrieved 17 January 2014.
- ^ "Newcastle Inner City Bypass". Roads & Maritime Services. Retrieved 3 October 2020.
- ^ Parris, Michael (28 February 2019). "Planning Department gives green light for inner-city bypass". Newcastle Herald. Retrieved 3 October 2020.