Bruxner Highway

Bruxner Highway

Bruxner Way

New South Wales
Bruxner Highway at Drake.
General information
TypeHighway
Length420 km (261 mi)[1]
GazettedAugust 1928 (as Main Road 64)[2]
March 1938 (as State Highway 16)[3]
Route number(s) B60 (2013–present)
(Tenterfield–West Ballina)
Former
route number		 National Route 44 (1974–2013)
(Tenterfield–West Ballina)
Major junctions
Bruxner Way
West end Newell Highway
Boggabilla, New South Wales
 Warialda Road
East end New England Highway
Tenterfield, New South Wales
Bruxner Highway
West end New England Highway
Tenterfield, New South Wales
 
East end Pacific Highway
West Ballina, New South Wales
Location(s)
Major settlementsYetman, Bonshaw, Tenterfield, Drake, Tabulam, Casino, Lismore, Alstonville
Highway system
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Bruxner Highway, and its former western alignment as Bruxner Way, are a 420-kilometre (260 mi)[1] state highway and rural road respectively, located in New South Wales, Australia. The route forms an east–west link across the Northern Tablelands in northern New South Wales, close to the border with Queensland, to the Northern Rivers coast. It was named after Michael Bruxner, NSW Minister for Transport from 1932 to 1941.[4][5]

  1. ^ a b "Bruxner Highway" (Map). Google Maps. Retrieved 2 June 2014.
  2. ^ "Main Roads Act, 1924-1927". Government Gazette of the State of New South Wales. No. 110. 17 August 1928. pp. 3814–20. Archived from the original on 3 August 2022. Retrieved 1 August 2022 – via National Library of Australia.
  3. ^ "Main Roads Act, 1924-1937". Government Gazette of the State of New South Wales. No. 46. National Library of Australia. 25 March 1938. pp. 1222–3. Archived from the original on 29 August 2022. Retrieved 29 August 2022.
  4. ^ Aitkin, Don. "Bruxner, Sir Michael Frederick (1882–1970)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Australian National University. Retrieved 5 April 2007.
  5. ^ "The Bruxner Highway" (PDF). Main Roads. Department of Main Roads, Government of New South Wales: 59–68. March 1968. Retrieved 6 November 2016.