Windsor Road is a notable road in the Hills District of Sydney, linking

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and

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in Sydney's west. It is a constituent part of route A2.

Route

Windsor Road commences at the intersection of Bridge and Macquarie Streets in Windsor and heads in a southeasterly direction as a two-lane, single carriageway road, widening to a four-lane, dual-carriageway road at McGraths Hill. It continues through

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, before turning off at the intersection with

Old Windsor Road Old Windsor Road is a notable and historic road in Sydney, Australia. It starts from Kellyville, New South Wales and ends at Northmead, New South Wales, just north of Parramatta, and acts as part of a main arterial between Parramatta and Winds ...

at Kellyville and narrowing back to a single carriageway road at

Baulkham Hills Baulkham Hills (;) is a suburb in the Hills District, New South Wales, Hills District of Greater Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. It is located within north-west of the Sydney central business district mostly within the Loca ...

, crossing under

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a short distance later. It continues in a southerly direction to cross over

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Northmead 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 ...

, before eventually terminating at the intersection of North Rocks Road and Church Street in

. 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 ...

runs next to and parallel to Windsor Road from Kellyville to Rouse Hill.

History

The original Windsor Road 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 between Windsor and Northmead. A newer alignment of Windsor Road, branching off the original alignment at Kellyville and ending in North Parramatta, opened in 1812; the original alignment of Windsor Road between Kellyville and Northmead was renamed to Old Windsor Road and formed a T-junction where it met with Windsor Road. This remained until 2002 when the Old Windsor Road regained importance and the junction was reconstructed to allow through traffic along the original Windsor Road alignment. The passing of the ''Main Roads Act of 1924'' through the

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provided for the declaration of Main Roads, roads partially funded by the State government through the

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(later

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). Main Road No. 184 was declared along this road on 8 August 1928, from the intersection with

Pennant Hills Road Pennant Hills Road is a arterial road located in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. The road links the suburb of Wahroonga in the northeast, to the major central business district of Parramatta in the southwest. Apart from a small section at ...

just north of Parramatta to Windsor (and continuing westwards via Richmond, Bilpin and Bell to the intersection with

Great Western Highway Great Western Highway is a state highway in New South Wales, Australia. From east to west, the highway links Sydney with Bathurst, New South Wales, Bathurst, on the state's Central Tablelands. The highway also has local road names between the ...

at Mount Victoria); 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 Main Road 184 on 8 April 1929. 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, Windsor Road retains its declaration as part of Main Road 184. Windsor Road was allocated State Route 40 in 1974. Metroad 2 was also allocated along it in 1993 between Windsor and Showgrounds Road in Castle Hill, until

opened in 1997 and Metroad 2 was truncated to the intersection with

in Kellyville. State Route 40 was also re-aligned in 2007 to follow Metroad 2 along Old Windsor Road, leaving the portion of the road south of the intersection in Kellyville unallocated. With the conversion to the newer alphanumeric system in 2013, State Route 40 was abolished, and Metroad 2 was replaced with route A2.

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