Central Coast Highway is a

highway A highway is any public or private road or other public way on land. It is used for major roads, but also includes other public roads and public tracks. In some areas of the United States, it is used as an equivalent term to controlled-acces ...

through the Central Coast region of

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, Australia. It connects Pacific Motorway ( M1) at

Kariong Kariong () is a locality of the Central Coast region of New South Wales, Australia west of Gosford along the Central Coast Highway. It is part of the local government area. History Kariong's first British settler was W.H. Parry in 1901. The ...

with Pacific Highway (A43) at Doyalson. The highway was named after the region it goes through, to provide an easily identifiable route for visitors to the region, and is designated route A49.

Route

The highway takes the former Pacific Highway route at Kariong and West Gosford, then crosses the Brian McGowan Bridge and after that it goes through these local roads: * Dane Drive, Gosford * Masons Parade, Gosford * York Street, East Gosford * Victoria Street, East Gosford * George Street, East Gosford * The Entrance Road at Erina, Erina Heights, Wamberal, Forresters Beach, Bateau Bay, Long Jetty and The Entrance * Oakland Avenue, The Entrance * Coral Street, The Entrance * Wilfred Barrett Drive at The Entrance North, Magenta and Noraville * Budgewoi Road at Noraville and Budgewoi * Scenic Drive at Budgewoi, Buff Point, San Remo and Doyalson

History

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, ...

). Great Northern Highway was declared (as Main Road No. 9) on 8 August 1928, running from Kariong to Gosford (and continuing south via Peat's Ferry and Hornsby to North Sydney, and northwards via Swansea and Newcastle to Hexham). With the passing of the ''Main Roads (Amendment) Act of 1929'' to provide for additional declarations of State Highways and Trunk Roads, this was amended to State Highway 9 on 8 April 1929. On 26 May 1931, it was re-declared as part of State Highway 10 and renamed Pacific Highway. Main Road 335 was declared from Long Jetty to The Entrance (and continuing west via Tumbi Umbi to Tuggerah), and Main Road 336 was declared from the intersection with Main Road 335 at Long Jetty to the intersection with Pacific Highway at Gosford, on the same day, 26 April 1933. Main Road 509 was declared from Wyee to the intersection with Pacific Highway in Doyalson on 27 September 1939, but was later extended past Doyalson via Budgewoi to Noraville (and continuing west to the intersection with Pacific Highway at Kanwal) on 4 April 1951; Main Road 335 was extended north, from The Entrance via The Entrance North to the intersection with Main Road 509 in Noraville, on 22 February 1967, shortly before construction on the replacement The Entrance Bridge commenced. The passing of the ''Roads Act of 1993'' through the Parliament of New South Wales updated road classifications and the way they could be declared within New South Wales. Under this act, Central Coast Highway was declared as State Highway 30 on 9 August 2006, from the Gosford Interchange with Pacific Motorway at Kariong via Gosford, Erina, Bateau Bay, The Entrance and Noraville to the intersection with Pacific Highway at Doyalson, subsuming Main Road 336; the eastern end of Main Roads 335 and 509 were truncated to meet Central Coast Highway at Long Jetty and Noraville respectively. This declaration also subsumed a portion of State Highway 10 (Pacific Highway) between Kariong and the Brian McGowan Bridge in Gosford, lengthening the existing gap of State Highway 10 through Gosford (removed in November 1996) from Kariong to northern Gosford. The highway today, as Highway 30, still retains this declaration. The highway was signed State Route 83 in 1979, from Kariong to

Gosford Gosford is the city and administrative centre of the Central Coast Council local government area in the heart of the Central Coast region, about north of Sydney and about south of Newcastle. The city centre is situated at the northern extr ...

as part of the former Pacific Highway. With the conversion to the newer alphanumeric system in 2013, this was replaced with route A49 for the entire length of the declared highway.

Upgrades

A section of the highway between Carlton Road at Erina and Ocean View Drive at Wamberal was upgraded to two lanes per direction with a dividing median in 2012 and 2013. The intersections with Brisbane Water Drive and Manns Road were combined into a single intersection and completed in November 2015. , a section of the highway between Ocean View Drive at Wamberal and Bateau Bay Road at

Bateau Bay Bateau Bay is a suburb of the Central Coast region of New South Wales, Australia. It is part of the local government area. Bateau Bay lies in the area known as Darkinjung to Indigenous Australians. "Bateau" is French for "boat." The subu ...

is proposed to be upgraded to two lanes per direction with a dividing median.

References

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Route

History

Upgrades

See also

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