Portal:Australian roads

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Welcome to the Australian roads portal.

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portal is designed to give an overview of articles associated with the roads in Australia, predominantly with a focus on the roads
themselves, but also on their history, associated infrastructure, and other related topics.

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View north along the Monaro Highway, between Cooma and Bredbo
View north along the Monaro Highway, between Cooma and Bredbo

Monaro Highway
Highway linking Victoria and the Australian Capital Territory

Cooma. The terrain within the Monaro is largely hilly, and there are numerous crossings. The road also parallels the former Bombala railway line in several locations. Within the ACT, the road becomes a high volume roadway and serves the southern suburbs of Canberra. The highway has more recently had a grade-separated dual carriageway extension constructed within Canberra, as part of the Eastern Parkway construction project. It is designated part of route M23, and route A23 within Canberra, and route B23 within Victoria and New South Wales, with a concurrency where it also carries route B72 between the two sections of Snowy Mountains Highway. (Full article...
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DID YOU KNOW?

... that at a cost of A$812 million, the

Perth, Western Australia was supposed to be called the Great Eastern Highway?
... that local Aboriginal activist Michael Mansell called for the Brighton Bypass
to be scrapped, stating that to continue construction "would be cultural vandalism, on an extreme scale"?

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