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Princes Highway is a major road in Australia, extending from Sydney via Melbourne to Adelaide through the states of New South Wales, Victoria and South Australia.It has a length of 1,941 kilometres (1,206 mi) (along Highway 1) or 1,898 kilometres (1,179 mi) via the former alignments of the highway, [citation needed] although these routes are slower and connections to the bypassed sections of ...
– continues south as along Princes Highway to Mount Gambier – allocated in 1998, progressively being replaced by from 2017 Princes Highway: Mount Gambier: SA/Vic border 18 km (11 mi) – continues west as along Princes Highway to Tailem Bend – continues east as along Princes Highway into Victoria eventually to Geelong: A2 South Road ...
Prior to the initial construction of the freeway in the 1960s, inbound and outbound road traffic between Adelaide and south-eastern South Australia or Victoria used a two-lane highway originally built in the early part of the 20th century. With growth in Adelaide's population, issues of congestion and safety mandated reconstruction.
The Maltby Bypass was Victoria's first freeway which opened on 16 June 1961, and was the first section of Princes Freeway to open. [3]Both sections of Princes Freeway were signed National Route 1, either inheriting it when converted from older sections of Princes Highway, or assigned when newly constructed to bypass a section of it.
Orrong Road Upgrade – Orrong Road to be upgraded to a 4 lane trenched expressway with service roads alongside from Graham Farmer Freeway to Leach Highway, rising onto a viaduct over Leach Highway and Division Street/Bell Street. May be extended in the future along Orrong and Welshpool Roads as far as Tonkin Highway.
Highway 1 was created as part of the National Route Numbering system, adopted in 1955. The route was compiled from an existing network of state and local roads and tracks. [ 2 ] It was meant to be a National Route between the Victorian Border near Mt. Gambier and Adelaide.
The Great Alpine Road passing through Everton, Victoria. Princes Freeway at Lara. The highways in Victoria are the highest density in any state in Australia.Unlike Australia's other mainland states where vast areas are very sparsely inhabited "outback", population centres spread out over most of the state, with only the far north-west and the Victorian Alps lacking permanent settlement.
South Australia has a well developed road network with major highways to Western Australia, the Northern Territory, New South Wales and Victoria. Augusta Highway and Princes Highway from Adelaide to Port Augusta; Eyre Highway from Port Augusta to Perth; Dukes Highway from Tailem Bend to Melbourne; Stuart Highway from Port Augusta to Darwin