Old Windsor Road is a notable road in Sydney, Australia. It starts from

Kellyville, New South Wales Kellyville is a suburb of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia 36 kilometres north-west of the Sydney central business district in the local government area of The Hills Shire. It is part of the Hills District region. History Ke ...

and ends at

Northmead, New South Wales Northmead is a suburb of Greater Western Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Northmead is located 26 kilometres west of the Sydney central business district, in the local government area of the City of Parramatta. Northmead is ...

, just north of

Parramatta Parramatta () is a suburb and major Central business district, commercial centre in Greater Western Sydney, located in the state of New South Wales, Australia. It is located approximately west of the Sydney central business district on the ban ...

. The northern end links with

Windsor Road Windsor Road is a notable road in the Hills District of Sydney. It starts from Windsor, New South Wales and ends at Northmead, New South Wales. However, Windsor Road is not continuous. The northern section of Windsor Road (Windsor to Kellyvil ...

while the southern end links with

Cumberland Highway The Cumberland Highway is a long urban highway located in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. The highway links the Pacific Highway (A1/B83) and Pacific Motorway ( M1) at Pearces Corner, Wahroonga in the northeast with the Hume Highway (A22/A ...

and

James Ruse Drive The James Ruse Drive is a urban freeway (North of Hassall Street/River Road West) and highway (south of Hassall Street) located to the east and north of Parramatta, in Western Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. The road's southeastern termin ...

. The

North-West T-way The North-West T-way is a continuous series of bus-only lanes and bus roadways between Parramatta, Blacktown and Rouse Hill in Western Sydney. Opened in stages between March and November 2007, the T-way was the second bus rapid transit route to ...

runs alongside the entire length of Old Windsor Road. Windsor is connected to Parramatta via the

Windsor Road cycleway The Windsor Road cycleway is a predominantly off-road cyclepath between Parramatta Park and Macquarie Street, that is generally aligned with the Windsor Road and Old Windsor Road. Route The cycleway accesses the North-West T-way between ...

, with much of its route via the North-West T-way, adjacent to the Old Windsor Road.

History

Old Windsor Road was part of the original Windsor Road, which opened in 1794.Old Windsor Road and Windsor Road Heritage Precincts
''Roads and Transport Authority'', Published on 16 November 2010, Retrieved on 16 July 2013 This was the second main road built for the colony of Sydney to connect Parramatta and Windsor—a distance of 23 miles and 16 chains (37.33 km). The northern section of Windsor Road and Old Windsor Road used to be continuous until 1812 when the new Windsor Road from to was completed. As a result, the southern section of the original Windsor Road was renamed Old Windsor Road, and the northern section and the new Windsor Road become continuous, with Old Windsor Road meeting Windsor Road at a T-junction. The passing of the ''Main Roads Act of 1924'' through the

Parliament of New South Wales The Parliament of New South Wales is a bicameral legislature in the Australian state of New South Wales (NSW), consisting of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly (lower house) and the New South Wales Legislative Council (upper house). Eac ...

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, ...

). Main Road No. 180 was declared along this road on 8 August 1928, from the intersection with

Great Western Highway Great Western Highway (also known as Broadway from to , Parramatta Road from Chippendale to , and Church Street through Parramatta) is a state highway in New South Wales, Australia. From east to west, the highway links Sydney with Bathurst, ...

just west of Parramatta, to the intersection with (New) Windsor Road at Kellyville. The construction of Stage 4 of the Parramatta Bypass (completed in December 1981) realigned the Westmead section of Old Windsor Road to feed it directly into Briens Road; the previous alignment was downgraded into a number of residential streets (today Ferndale Close, Hart Drive, Fulton Avenue, Darcy Road, and Hawkesbury Road to end at Great Western Highway). With the opening of

M2 Hills Motorway The Hills Motorway (also known as the Hills M2 Motorway, M2 Motorway or simply M2) is a tollway in north-western Sydney, Australia, owned by toll road operator Transurban. It forms majority of Sydney's M2 route and part of the 110 km Sydn ...

in 1997,

Metroad Metroads were the primary road routes serving the Sydney and Brisbane metropolitan areas from the 1990s to the early 2010s. The Metroads formed a network of radial and circumferential routes throughout the cities, simplifying navigation. Metroads ...

2 was realigned to run along Old Windsor Road from the motorway terminus at Seven Hills to Kellyville (and continuing along Windsor Road to Windsor); the junction at Kellyville was reconstructed so that the northern section of Windsor Road became continuous with Old Windsor Road again at a T-junction. In 2007, the junction at Bella Vista was upgraded so that an underpass for Old Windsor Road could be constructed. State Route 40 was realigned in the same year to Old Windsor Road instead of Windsor Road from Kellyville to Northmead. With the conversion to the newer alphanumeric system in 2013, Metroad 2 was replaced with route A2, and State Route 40 was replaced with route A40 from Seven Hills to Northmead. Almost all of its original concrete markers have disappeared with the extensive road widening. One section has been restored to its original state as it passes Rouse Hill House and Rouse Hill Public School, with the traffic diverted onto a new section of road.

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{{Streets of Sydney Australia Streets in Sydney The Hills Shire

History

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