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Pacific Highway | |||
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View of the Pacific Highway from Wattley Hill Road, New South Wales (c. 2007) | |||
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General information | |||
Type | Highway | ||
Length | 779 km (484 mi)[1] | ||
Gazetted | August 1928 (NSW, as Main Road 10)[2] December 1930 (QLD)[3] | ||
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Former route number | See Former route numbers | ||
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South end | Maitland Road | ||
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Southwest end | Mann Street | ||
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Major settlements | Ballina, Central Coast, Coffs Harbour, Kempsey, Port Macquarie, Newcastle, Taree, Sydney Brisbane, Gold Coast | ||
Highway system | |||
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Pacific Highway is a 790-kilometre-long (491 mi)[1] national highway and major transport route along the central east coast of Australia, with the majority of it being part of Australia's Highway 1. The highway and its adjoining Pacific Motorway between Brisbane and Brunswick Heads and Pacific Motorway between Sydney and Newcastle links the state capitals of Sydney in New South Wales with Brisbane in Queensland, approximately paralleling the Tasman Sea and the Coral Sea of the South Pacific Ocean coast, via regional cities and towns like Gosford (Central Coast), Newcastle, Taree, Port Macquarie, Kempsey, Coffs Harbour, Grafton, Ballina, Byron Bay, Tweed Heads and the Gold Coast, which is part of Queensland. Additionally, between Brunswick Heads and Port Macquarie (excluding a short stretch around Coffs Harbour), the road is also signed as Pacific Motorway, but has not been legally gazetted as such.
Pacific Highway no longer includes former sections of the highway between Brunswick Heads and Brisbane that have been legally renamed. As such, the highway stops short of the Queensland border near the Gold Coast. It is one of the busiest highways in Australia[4][5] and was reconstructed as a controlled-access highway (motorway) and limited-access road (dual carriageway) standards between Hexham and the Queensland border between 1996 and December 2020,[6][7] excepting a portion of remnant surface road around Coffs Harbour. Major construction of the Coffs Harbour Bypass commenced in 2023.
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