A34 (Sydney)
The A34 is a route designation of a major metropolitan arterial route through suburban Sydney, linking Hume Highway at Liverpool and Princes Highway at Newtown, running parallel to the tolled M5 Motorway. This name covers a few consecutive roads and is widely known to most drivers, but the entire allocation is also known – and signposted – by the names of its constituent parts: Macquarie Street, Terminus Street, Newbridge Road, Milperra Road, (New) Canterbury Road, Stanmore Road and Enmore Road.[3]
A34 (numerous constituent roads) | |
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| Eastern end of A34 (Enmore Road) at Newtown | |
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| General information | |
| Type | Road |
| Length | 26.2 km (16 mi)[1] |
| Gazetted | August 1928[2] |
| Route number(s) | A34 (2013–present) |
| Former route number |  State Route 54 (1974–2013) |
| Major junctions | |
| West end |  Hume HighwayLiverpool, Sydney |
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| East end |  King StreetNewtown, Sydney |
| Location(s) | |
| Major suburbs | Milperra, Bankstown, Punchbowl, Lakemba, Canterbury, Dulwich Hill, Petersham, Enmore |
| Highway system | |
Route
The A34 commences at the intersection with Hume Highway and Hoxton Park Road in Liverpool and heads in an easterly direction as Macquarie Street as a four-lane, single-carriageway road, turning into Terminus Street very shortly afterwards. It changes name to Newbridge Road and crosses the Georges River for the first time, intersecting with Heathcote Road shortly afterwards, and widening to a six-lane, dual-carriageway road. It continues east through Moorebank, crosses the Georges River again and meets Henry Lawson Drive at Milperra. It changes name to Milperra Road and continues in an easterly direction until it reaches The River Road in Revesby, where it changes name again to Canterbury Road, meeting King Georges Road at Roselands. At Hurlstone Park, the route splits off east to become New Canterbury Road. It changes name to Stanmore Road at the intersection of Crystal and Shaw Streets at Petersham, and intersecs with and changes name to Enmore Road at the intersection with Edgeware Road in Enmore, before eventually terminating at the intersection with King Street in Newtown.[1][4]
History
The passing of the Main Roads Act of 1924[5] through the Parliament of New South Wales provided for the declaration of Main Roads, roads partially funded by the State government through the Main Roads Board (later the Department of Main Roads, and eventually Transport for NSW). Main Road No. 167 was declared on 8 August 1928, from the intersection with King Street in Newtown, along Enmore and Stanmore Roads, New Canterbury Road and Canterbury Road to the intersection with Chapel Road in Bankstown;[2] with the passing of the Main Roads (Amendment) Act of 1929[6] to provide for additional declarations of State Highways and Trunk Roads, this was amended to Main Road 167 on 8 April 1929.
Main Road 512 was declared between Heathcote Road and Hume Highway in Liverpool on 15 November 1939 (and continuing southeast along Heathcote Road via Lucas Heights to Princes Highway at Heathcote);[7] the western end of Main Road 167 was later extended along Milperra and Newbridge Roads to meet Main Road 512 (Heathcote Road) at Moorebank on 20 March 1940.[8]
The passing of the Roads Act of 1993[9] updated road classifications and the way they could be declared within New South Wales. Under this act, the A34 retains its declaration as Main Road 167 (from Moorebank to Newtown), and part of Main Road 512 (Liverpool to Moorebank).[10]
The route was allocated State Route 54 in 1974, from Liverpool to Newtown. In 1993, its eastern end was extended along King Street and City Road to the intersection with Broadway at Chippendale (replacing State Route 66, itself having replaced National Route 1 the previous year when the opening of the Sydney Harbour Tunnel had it re-aligned).[11] With the conversion to the newer alphanumeric system in 2013, State Route 54 was truncated back to its original eastern terminus at King Street in Newtown and replaced by route A34, with the former extension replaced by route A36 as part of Princes Highway.[4]
Major intersections
| LGA | Location | km[1] | mi | Destinations | Notes |
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| Liverpool | Liverpool | 0.0 | 0.0 | Hume Highway (A28) – Cabramatta, Camden, Campbelltown | Western terminus of route A34 Western end of Macquarie Street |
| Hoxton Park Road – Hoxton Park, Austral | |||||
| 0.3 | 0.19 | Macquarie Street (east) – Liverpool | Eastbound entrance and westbound exit only Eastern end of Macquarie Street, western end of Terminus Street | ||
| 0.8 | 0.50 | Terminus Street (east) – Liverpool Speed Street (south) – Liverpool | Eastbound exit to Terminus Street only, no right turn eastbound into Speed Street Eastern end of Terminus Street, western end of Newbridge Road | ||
| 0.9 | 0.56 | Main South railway line | |||
| Georges River | 1.1 | 0.68 | Light Horse Bridge | ||
| Liverpool | Moorebank | 1.4 | 0.87 | Heathcote Road – Wattle Grove, Lucas Heights, Heathcote | |
| Georges River | 5.9 | 3.7 | Milperra Bridge | ||
| Canterbury-Bankstown | Milperra–Bankstown Aerodrome boundary | 6.0 | 3.7 | Henry Lawson Drive – Lansdowne, Padstow Heights | Eastern end of Newbridge Road Western end of Milperra Road |
| Revesby | 9.8 | 6.1 | The River Road – Revesby Heights | Eastern end of Milperra Road Western end of Canterbury Road | |
| Bankstown | 11.6 | 7.2 |  Fairford Road (A6) – Carlingford, Lidcombe, Padstow, Heathcote | No right turn westbound into Fairford Road, no southbound exit from Fairford Road | |
| Punchbowl | 12.4 | 7.7 | Punchbowl Road (north) – Punchbowl, Croydon Park Bramhall Avenue (south) – Punchbowl | ||
| Wiley Park–Roselands boundary | 15.0 | 9.3 |  King Georges Road (A3) – Mona Vale, Ryde, Greenacre, Blakehurst | ||
| Cooks River | 19.5 | 12.1 | Bridge (no known official name) | ||
| Canterbury-Bankstown | Canterbury | 19.7 | 12.2 | Bankstown railway line | |
| Canterbury-Bankstown–Inner West boundary | Hurlstone Park–Ashfield–Dulwich Hill tripoint | 20.9 | 13.0 | Old Canterbury Road (north) – Lewisham Griffiths Street (west) – Ashfield | Eastern end of Canterbury Road Western end of New Canterbury Road |
| Inner West | Dulwich Hill | 21.9 | 13.6 | Inner West Light Rail | |
| Petersham | 24.1 | 15.0 | Crystal Street (north) – Leichhardt Shaw Street (south) – Petersham | Eastern end of New Canterbury Road Western end of Stanmore Road | |
| Enmore | 25.5 | 15.8 | Enmore Road (southwest) – Marrickville Edgeware Road (southeast) – St Peters | Eastern end of New Canterbury Road Western end of Enmore Road | |
| Inner West–Sydney boundary | Newtown | 26.2 | 16.3 | Main Suburban railway line | |
| King Street (A36) – Chippendale, Blakehurst, Heathcote | Eastern terminus of route A34 Eastern end of Enmore Road | ||||
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See also
References
- Google (17 May 2023). "A34 road" (Map). Google Maps. Google. Retrieved 17 May 2023.
- "Main Roads Act, 1924-1927". Government Gazette of the State of New South Wales. No. 110. National Library of Australia. 17 August 1928. pp. 3814–20. Archived from the original on 3 August 2022. Retrieved 1 August 2022.
- "Spatial Information Exchange". New South Wales Land and Property Information.
- "Road number and name changes in Sydney" (PDF). Roads and Maritime Services. Transport for NSW - Roads and Maritime. 2013. Archived from the original (PDF) on 1 April 2019. Retrieved 23 July 2020.
- 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 amend the Main Roads Act, 1924-1927; to confer certain further powers upon the Main Roads Board; to amend the Local Government Act, 1919, and certain other Acts; to validate certain payments and other matters; and for purposes connected therewith. Archived 12 August 2022 at the Wayback Machine 8 April 1929
- "Main Roads Act, 1924-1938". Government Gazette of the State of New South Wales. No. 181. National Library of Australia. 17 November 1939. p. 5431. Archived from the original on 8 May 2023. Retrieved 8 May 2023.
- "Main Roads Act, 1924-1939". Government Gazette of the State of New South Wales. No. 50. National Library of Australia. 29 March 1940. p. 1502. Archived from the original on 17 May 2023. Retrieved 17 May 2023.
- 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.
- State Route 54, Ozroads, Retrieved on 16 December 2022.
