A34 (Sydney)

A34

(numerous constituent roads)

New South Wales
A34; (numerous constituent roads); New South Wales
	Eastern end of A34 (Enmore Road) at Newtown
	West end East end
Coordinates	33°55′43″S 150°55′05″E / 33.928628°S 150.917985°E (West end); 33°53′52″S 151°10′42″E / 33.897738°S 151.178461°E (East end);
General information
Type	Road
Length	26.2 km (16 mi)
Gazetted	August 1928
Route number(s)	A34 (2013–present)
Former; route number	State Route 54 (1974–2013)
Major junctions
West end	Hume Highway; Liverpool, Sydney
	Heathcote Road; Henry Lawson Drive; Fairford Road; King Georges Road; Old Canterbury Road;
East end	King Street; Newtown, Sydney
Location(s)
Major suburbs	Milperra, Bankstown, Punchbowl, Lakemba, Canterbury, Dulwich Hill, Petersham, Enmore
Highway system
	Highways in Australia; National Highway • Freeways in Australia; Highways in New South Wales; ; ;

The A34 is a route designation of a major metropolitan arterial route through suburban Sydney, linking Hume Highway at Liverpool and Princes Highway at Newtown, running parallel to the tolled M5 Motorway. This name covers a few consecutive roads and is widely known to most drivers, but the entire allocation is also known – and signposted – by the names of its constituent parts: Macquarie Street, Terminus Street, Newbridge Road, Milperra Road, (New) Canterbury Road, Stanmore Road and Enmore Road.^[3]

Route

The A34 commences at the intersection with Hume Highway and Hoxton Park Road in Liverpool and heads in an easterly direction as Macquarie Street as a four-lane, single-carriageway road, turning into Terminus Street very shortly afterwards. It changes name to Newbridge Road and crosses the Georges River for the first time, intersecting with Heathcote Road shortly afterwards, and widening to a six-lane, dual-carriageway road. It continues east through Moorebank, crosses the Georges River again and meets Henry Lawson Drive at Milperra. It changes name to Milperra Road and continues in an easterly direction until it reaches The River Road in Revesby, where it changes name again to Canterbury Road, meeting King Georges Road at Roselands. At Hurlstone Park, the route splits off east to become New Canterbury Road. It changes name to Stanmore Road at the intersection of Crystal and Shaw Streets at Petersham, and intersecs with and changes name to Enmore Road at the intersection with Edgeware Road in Enmore, before eventually terminating at the intersection with King Street in Newtown.^[1]^[4]

History

The passing of the Main Roads Act of 1924^[5] 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. Main Road No. 167 was declared on 8 August 1928, from the intersection with King Street in Newtown, along Enmore and Stanmore Roads, New Canterbury Road and Canterbury Road to the intersection with Chapel Road in Bankstown;^[2] with the passing of the Main Roads (Amendment) Act of 1929^[6] to provide for additional declarations of State Highways and Trunk Roads, this was amended to Main Road 167 on 8 April 1929.

Main Road 512 was declared between Heathcote Road and Hume Highway in Liverpool on 15 November 1939 (and continuing southeast along Heathcote Road via Lucas Heights to Princes Highway at Heathcote);^[7] the western end of Main Road 167 was later extended along Milperra and Newbridge Roads to meet Main Road 512 (Heathcote Road) at Moorebank on 20 March 1940.^[8]

The passing of the Roads Act of 1993^[9] updated road classifications and the way they could be declared within New South Wales. Under this act, the A34 retains its declaration as Main Road 167 (from Moorebank to Newtown), and part of Main Road 512 (Liverpool to Moorebank).^[10]

The route was allocated State Route 54 in 1974, from Liverpool to Newtown. In 1993, its eastern end was extended along King Street and City Road to the intersection with Broadway at Chippendale (replacing State Route 66, itself having replaced National Route 1 the previous year when the opening of the Sydney Harbour Tunnel had it re-aligned).^[11] With the conversion to the newer alphanumeric system in 2013, State Route 54 was truncated back to its original eastern terminus at King Street in Newtown and replaced by route A34, with the former extension replaced by route A36 as part of Princes Highway.^[4]

Major intersections

LGA	Location	km^[1]	mi	Destinations	Notes
Liverpool	Liverpool	0.0	0.0	Hume Highway (A28) – Cabramatta, Camden, Campbelltown	Western terminus of route A34 Western end of Macquarie Street
		0.0	0.0	Hoxton Park Road – Hoxton Park, Austral
		0.3	0.19	Macquarie Street (east) – Liverpool	Eastbound entrance and westbound exit only Eastern end of Macquarie Street, western end of Terminus Street
		0.8	0.50	Terminus Street (east) – Liverpool Speed Street (south) – Liverpool	Eastbound exit to Terminus Street only, no right turn eastbound into Speed Street Eastern end of Terminus Street, western end of Newbridge Road
		0.9	0.56	Main Southern railway line
Georges River		1.1	0.68	Light Horse Bridge
Liverpool	Moorebank	1.4	0.87	Heathcote Road – Wattle Grove, Lucas Heights, Heathcote
Georges River		5.9	3.7	Milperra Bridge
Canterbury-Bankstown	Milperra–Bankstown Aerodrome boundary	6.0	3.7	Henry Lawson Drive – Lansdowne, Padstow Heights	Eastern end of Newbridge Road Western end of Milperra Road
	Revesby	9.8	6.1	The River Road – Revesby Heights	Eastern end of Milperra Road Western end of Canterbury Road
	Bankstown	11.6	7.2	Fairford Road (A6) – Carlingford, Lidcombe, Padstow, Heathcote	No right turn westbound into Fairford Road, no southbound exit from Fairford Road
	Punchbowl	12.4	7.7	Punchbowl Road (north) – Punchbowl, Croydon Park Bramhall Avenue (south) – Punchbowl
	Wiley Park–Roselands boundary	15.0	9.3	King Georges Road (A3) – Mona Vale, Ryde, Greenacre, Blakehurst
Cooks River		19.5	12.1	Bridge (no known official name)
Canterbury-Bankstown	Canterbury	19.7	12.2	Bankstown railway line
Canterbury-Bankstown–Inner West boundary	Hurlstone Park–Ashfield–Dulwich Hill tripoint	20.9	13.0	Old Canterbury Road (north) – Lewisham Griffiths Street (west) – Ashfield	Eastern end of Canterbury Road Western end of New Canterbury Road
Inner West	Dulwich Hill	21.9	13.6	Inner West Light Rail
	Petersham	24.1	15.0	Crystal Street (north) – Leichhardt Shaw Street (south) – Petersham	Eastern end of New Canterbury Road Western end of Stanmore Road
	Enmore	25.5	15.8	Enmore Road (southwest) – Marrickville Edgeware Road (southeast) – St Peters	Eastern end of New Canterbury Road Western end of Enmore Road
Inner West–Sydney boundary	Newtown	26.2	16.3	Main Suburban railway line
Inner West–Sydney boundary	Newtown	26.2	16.3	King Street (A36) – Chippendale, Blakehurst, Heathcote	Eastern terminus of route A34 Eastern end of Enmore Road
Incomplete access Route transition

References

^ ^a ^b ^c "A34 road" (Map). Google Maps. Retrieved 17 May 2023.
^ ^a ^b "Main Roads Act, 1924-1927". Government Gazette of the State of New South Wales. No. 110. National Library of Australia. 17 August 1928. pp. 3814–20. Archived from the original on 3 August 2022. Retrieved 1 August 2022.
^ "Spatial Information Exchange". New South Wales Land and Property Information.
^ ^a ^b "Road number and name changes in Sydney" (PDF). Roads and Maritime Services. Transport for NSW - Roads and Maritime. 2013. Archived from the original (PDF) on 1 April 2019. Retrieved 23 July 2020.
^ State of New South Wales, An Act to provide for the better construction, maintenance, and financing of main roads; to provide for developmental roads; to constitute a Main Roads Board Archived 11 August 2022 at the Wayback Machine 10 November 1924
^ State of New South Wales, An Act to amend the Main Roads Act, 1924-1927; to confer certain further powers upon the Main Roads Board; to amend the Local Government Act, 1919, and certain other Acts; to validate certain payments and other matters; and for purposes connected therewith. Archived 12 August 2022 at the Wayback Machine 8 April 1929
^ "Main Roads Act, 1924-1938". Government Gazette of the State of New South Wales. No. 181. National Library of Australia. 17 November 1939. p. 5431. Archived from the original on 8 May 2023. Retrieved 8 May 2023.
^ "Main Roads Act, 1924-1939". Government Gazette of the State of New South Wales. No. 50. National Library of Australia. 29 March 1940. p. 1502. Archived from the original on 17 May 2023. Retrieved 17 May 2023.
^ 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. Archived 11 August 2022 at the Wayback Machine 10 November 1924
^ Transport for NSW (August 2022). "Schedule of Classified Roads and Unclassified Regional Roads" (PDF). Government of New South Wales. Archived from the original (PDF) on 25 August 2022. Retrieved 1 August 2022.
^ State Route 54, Ozroads, Retrieved on 16 December 2022.^{[self-published source]}

[gmaps-1] "A34 road" (Map). Google Maps. Retrieved 17 May 2023.

[nswgovgaz28-2] "Main Roads Act, 1924-1927". Government Gazette of the State of New South Wales. No. 110. National Library of Australia. 17 August 1928. pp. 3814–20. Archived from the original on 3 August 2022. Retrieved 1 August 2022.

[3] "Spatial Information Exchange". New South Wales Land and Property Information.

[alphanumeric-4] "Road number and name changes in Sydney" (PDF). Roads and Maritime Services. Transport for NSW - Roads and Maritime. 2013. Archived from the original (PDF) on 1 April 2019. Retrieved 23 July 2020.

[5] State of New South Wales, An Act to provide for the better construction, maintenance, and financing of main roads; to provide for developmental roads; to constitute a Main Roads Board Archived 11 August 2022 at the Wayback Machine 10 November 1924

[6] State of New South Wales, An Act to amend the Main Roads Act, 1924-1927; to confer certain further powers upon the Main Roads Board; to amend the Local Government Act, 1919, and certain other Acts; to validate certain payments and other matters; and for purposes connected therewith. Archived 12 August 2022 at the Wayback Machine 8 April 1929

[nswgovgaz39-7] "Main Roads Act, 1924-1938". Government Gazette of the State of New South Wales. No. 181. National Library of Australia. 17 November 1939. p. 5431. Archived from the original on 8 May 2023. Retrieved 8 May 2023.

[nswgovgaz40-8] "Main Roads Act, 1924-1939". Government Gazette of the State of New South Wales. No. 50. National Library of Australia. 29 March 1940. p. 1502. Archived from the original on 17 May 2023. Retrieved 17 May 2023.

[9] 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. Archived 11 August 2022 at the Wayback Machine 10 November 1924

[nswroadsched-10] Transport for NSW (August 2022). "Schedule of Classified Roads and Unclassified Regional Roads" (PDF). Government of New South Wales. Archived from the original (PDF) on 25 August 2022. Retrieved 1 August 2022.

[SR54-11] State Route 54, Ozroads, Retrieved on 16 December 2022.^{[self-published source]}

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