The Princes Highway is a road in Australia, extending from Sydney to Port Augusta via the coast through the states of New South Wales, Victoria and South Australia, a distance of 1941 km (along Highway 1) or 1898 km via the former alignments of the highway. (However, those routes are slower and connections to the bypassed sections of the original route are poor in many cases). The highway follows the coastline for most of its length and thus takes quite an indirect and lengthy route. By contrast, the Hume Highway (National Highway 31) from Sydney to Melbourne at 870 km (as opposed to 1040 km on Highway 1), and the Western and Dukes Highways (National Highway 8) from Melbourne to Adelaide at 730 km (915 km along Highway 1) are far more direct. Because of the rural nature and lower traffic volumes over much of its length, the Princes Highway is a more scenic and leisurely route than the main highways between these major cities.
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Famous quotes containing the words princes and/or highway:
“I regard almost all quarrels of princes on the same footing, and I see nothing that marks man’s unreason so positively as war. Indeed, what folly to kill one another for interests often imaginary, and always for the pleasure of persons who do not think themselves even obliged to those who sacrifice themselves for them!”
—Mary Wortley, Lady Montagu (1689–1762)
“In one notable instance, where the United States Army and a hundred years of persuasion failed, a highway has succeeded. The Seminole Indians surrendered to the Tamiami Trail. From the Everglades the remnants of this race emerged, soon after the trail was built, to set up their palm-thatched villages along the road and to hoist tribal flags as a lure to passing motorists.”
—For the State of Florida, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)