Bangor Bypass is a road in New South Wales, Australia, between
New Illawarra Road and River Road, bypassing
Bangor and
Menai. Completed in February 2005, it replaced Menai Road as the main road between A6 and River Road, alleviating traffic on Menai Road and increasing travel speed through Bangor and Menai. It also acts as a western extension of River Road and
Woronora Bridge, which was completed four years earlier in 2001. A section of New Illawarra Road north of the bypass was also completed as part of the project, linking the bypass directly to
Alfords Point Road.
Route
Bangor Bypass commences at the intersection with
New Illawarra Road in
Menai and heads east as a four-lane, dual-carriageway road, immediately crossing over Old Illarawrra Road by bridge, and continues through the forests flanking
Woronora River
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until eventually terminating at the interchange with River Road and Akuna Avenue in
Bangor.
History
The bypass project had been planned many years earlier. During the years of planning a misunderstanding by residential developers led to new roads and housing being constructed on
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land at the end of Anzac Road in Bangor. This caused the proposed position of the bypass to shift slightly north
Preparations for the Bangor Bypass included changing traffic flow between
Bangor,
Woronora
Woronora is a suburb in southern Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Woronora is located 27 kilometres south of the Sydney central business district, in the local government area of the Sutherland Shire. Woronora Heights is a ...
and
Sutherland. This was largely due to a stretch of road known as the "Woronora bends", a collection of steep hairpin bends along Menai Road. In June 1990, a changeover from the bends shifted traffic from Menai Road onto a small stretch of Akuna Avenue and a new road called River Road. In 2001, traffic was shifted onto an extended River Road via the new
Woronora River Bridge, replacing Menai Road via the older Woronora Bridge. Construction on stage 1 of the Bangor Bypass was commenced by
Abigroup
Abigroup was an Australian construction company.
History
Abigroup was established as Graham Evans & Co in 1957 as a civil engineering company within New South Wales, being renamed Abignano in 1961. In 1981 it was listed on the Australian Securiti ...
in June 2003 with it opening in February 2005.
Stage 2 of the bypass project, commenced in 2009 and completed in early 2011, extended the Stage 1 New Illawarra Road southwards and joined it with the rest of New Illawarra Road at
Barden Ridge, allowing the then Metroad 6 (now A6) to bypass Old Illawarra Road.
The passing of the ''Main Roads Act of 1924'' 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
Transport for NSW, sometimes abbreviated to TfNSW, and pronounced as Transport for New South Wales, is an agency of the New South Wales Government established on 1 November 2011, and is the leading transport and roads agency in New South Wales, ...
). With the subsequent passing of the ''Main Roads (Amendment) Act of 1929'' to provide for additional declarations of State Highways and Trunk Roads, the
Department of Main Roads (having succeeded the MRB in 1932) re-aligned the western end of Main Road 663 (originally declared from the intersection of Princes Highway and Old Princes Highway at
Sutherland and along The Grand Parade, Linden Street, River and Menai Roads to the intersection wit Old Illawarra Road in
Menai on 22 January 1993
) along River Road and Bangor Bypass to the intersection with New Illarwarra Road, on 20 February 2009.
The passing of the ''Roads Act of 1993''
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.''
10 November 1924 updated road classifications and the way they could be declared within New South Wales. Under this act, Bangor Bypass retains its declaration as part of Main Road 663.
Exits and interchanges
Bangor Bypass is entirely contained within the Sutherland Shire
Sutherland Shire is a local government area in the southern region of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Sutherland Shire comprises an area of and as at the had an estimated population of . Sutherland Shire is colloquially ...
local government area.
See also
References
External links
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