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Photo Gallery
New South Wales Road Photo Gallery:
National Route 1
Highway 1 is Australia's coastal highway joining all
mainland's state capitals and coastal towns circumnavigating
the entire Australian continent. It is also the longest
numbered highway in the world.
Highway 1 also goes through Tasmania. It starts in
Hobart and then works its way past Launceston and up
to Burnie.
When the National Route Numbering system was adopted
in 1955, Highway 1 was the only truly national highway,
although it was not necessarily the shortest distance
between many town centres. It could be argued that Highway
1 starts / ends in the historical Rocks precinct
in the heart of Sydney, Australia's first city. Crossing
the Sydney Harbour Bridge north, it becomes the Pacific
Highway, going south via George St (Australia's first
street) it becomes the Princes Highway. At other capital
cities it brushes past their central business districts.
With the introduction of National Highway system,
the significance of Highway 1 diminished and in the
1990s, route numbering changes in Victoria and South
Australia split it into two major sections running along
the west and eastern coasts of Australia. The routes
in SA and Vic are A1 & B1. Under the original Highway
1 scheme, certain stretches parallel to the main route
was marked as National Route Alternative 1. However,
almost all has been replaced by State Route Numbering.
This section concentrates on the NSW section, which
consists of National Route 1 and National Highway 1,
although some numbers are duplexed along the route and
in Sydney it replaced by Metroad 1, see indiviudal route
sections for actual numbers used.
For photos of National Highway 1 / Sydney - Newcastle
Freeway, click
here.
For photos of Metroad 1 in Sydney, click
here.
| Length (Total): |
14,523
km |
| Route Numbers: |
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| Information courtesy
of Wikipedia and Sam Laybutt |
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