The A34 is a major metropolitan arterial route in
Sydney
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. A34 runs from its intersection with the
Hume Highway
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at at the western end, to the intersection with the
King Street at at the eastern end. It runs parallel to the tolled
M5 Motorway
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.
The name "A34" is the route allocation for the route as a whole, not a road name. The A34 route runs along a series of roads with different names. From west to east they are:
* Macquarie Street
* Terminus Street
* Newbridge Road
* Milperra Road
* Canterbury Road
* New Canterbury Road
* Stanmore Road
* Enmore Road
Route
The route for the A34 begins in the west at the junction with
Hume Highway
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(A28), in the suburb of . From here, the A34 is called Newbridge Road until crossing the
Georges River
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The river travels for approximately in a north and then easterly ...
when Milperra Road starts. When the road reaches The River Road in , it continues east as Canterbury Road. Canterbury Road then splits off into Old Canterbury Road and New Canterbury Road where A34 continues onto the new one. As the road proceeds east, it reaches Crystal Street at and goes on as Stanmore Road. At the junction with Edgeware Road in , it switches to Enmore Road until it reaches the junction with
King Street (A36) in .
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History
The route was originally designated State Route 54 in 1974, terminating at the intersection of Enmore Road and King Street as it is currently. In 1993, the State Route was extended through Newtown along King Street and
City Road
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, after the National Route 1 route designation was removed from the two roads (the National Route 1 was realigned via the current
M1/A1 alignment). As a result, the State Route then terminated at
Broadway
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at its eastern end.
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With the conversion to the newer alphanumeric system in 2013, the State Route designation was replaced with route A34, and the eastern end was truncated back to the intersection of Enmore Road and King Street, in front of
Newtown station.
The truncated section was instead replaced with route A36 (for
Princes Highway
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).
See also
References
External Links
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