Aus Link - Road Funding

Road Funding

Major projects underway or being planned (project search and Information on the funding projects in the states and territories)

Sydney - Melbourne (Hume Highway)

• Hume Highway; Holbrook bypass ($320m: $110m contribution by NSW) - Construction started in May 2011 with completion due in early 2013.

Sydney - Brisbane Pacific Highway route

• Bulahdelah bypass ($315m: $11m contribution by NSW) - Construction recommenced in 2010 following a delay in construction following what was found to be an incorrect claim that the roadway would damage a rare Orchard plantation, with completion expected by mid-2012.
• Kempsey bypass ($618m) - Construction began in 2010 with completion by mid 2014.
• Sapphire to Woolgoolga upgrade ($700m: $88m contribution by NSW) - 25 km upgrade north of Coffs Harbour, construction commenced in 2010 with completion in 2014.
• Ballina bypass ($640m: $114 contribution by NSW) - Construction commenced in 2008, with completion expected by mid-2012.
• Banora Point upgrade ($360m: $60m contribution by NSW) - Construction commenced in 2009, with completion expected by mid-2012.

Sydney - Brisbane (New England and Cunningham Highways route)

• Hunter Expressway ($1.7bn: $200m contribution by NSW). Construction commenced in 2010, with the project expected to be completed by the end of 2013.

Sydney - Adelaide (Sturt Highway)
Melbourne - Adelaide (Western and Dukes Highways)

• Melton to Bacchus Marsh Freeway ($450m). Construction commenced in 2010 with the project expected to be completed by early-2012

Melbourne - Brisbane (Goulburn Valley, Newell, Gore and Warrego Highways)
Adelaide - Perth (Princes, Eyre, Coolgardie-Esperance and Great Eastern Highways)
Perth - Darwin (Great Northern Highway and Victoria Highways)
Adelaide - Darwin (Stuart Highway)
Brisbane - Darwin (Warrego, Landsborough and Barkly Highways)

• Toowoomba bypass ($43m) - Planning commenced in 2008.

Brisbane - Cairns (Bruce Highway)
Townsville - Mount Isa (Flinders Highway)
Melbourne - Sale (Princes Highway)

• Duplication between Traralgon to Sale ($450m: joint funding) - Planning commenced in 2006.

Perth - Bunbury (South Western Highway)
Hobart - Burnie, including link to Bell Bay (Midland and the East Tamar Highway)

• Brighton Bypass (funding not yet finalised) The bypassing of several small towns north of Hobart on the Midland Highway

Melbourne - Mildura (Calder Highway)
Sydney - Dubbo (Great Western and Mitchell Highways)

• Woodford to Wentworth Falls (to provide four-lane conditions from Katoomba to Sydney).

Canberra connectors (From the Hume Highway to the Federal or the Barton Highway)

• Planning for duplication of the Barton Highway and the Murrumbateman Bypass ($20m)

Sydney - Wollongong (Southern Freeway and Princes Highway)
Melbourne - Geelong (Princes Highway)