Southern Freeway is a freeway linking Sydney to Wollongong. It currently is designated as part of National Route 1, but it once was signposted as F6 (Freeway Route 6) and is commonly known by this latter name. The freeway will be designated as the M1 in 2013 as alpha-numeric route marking will be used in New South Wales. The freeway will also change name along with Mount Ousley Road to Princes Motorway between Waterfall and Albion Park Rail.
The Southern Freeway has two sections: the northern section between Waterfall and Bulli Tops interchange (with a speed limit of 110 km/h (68 mph), except for the southbound approach to the Interchange, which is 80 km/h (50 mph)) and the southern section between Wollongong suburb of Gwynneville to Yallah (with a 100 km/h (62 mph) speed limit), where it rejoins the Princes Highway. Mount Ousley Road connects these two sections together (also 100 km/h (62 mph) speed limit) with an interchange at Picton Road.
As Wollongong and Port Kembla are important industrial centres, freight traffic is heavy. Despite the current decline of the local steel industry, emergence of Wollongong as a commuter city of Sydney has kept the freeway and the adjacent Mount Ousley Road busy.
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Famous quotes containing the words southern and/or freeway:
“I walked on the banks of the tincan banana dock and sat down under the huge shade of a Southern Pacific locomotive to look at the sunset over the box house hills and cry.”
—Allen Ginsberg (b. 1926)
“The landscape of the northern Sprawl woke confused memories of childhood for Case, dead grass tufting the cracks in a canted slab of freeway concrete. The train began to decelerate ten kilometers from the airport. Case watched the sun rise on the landscape of childhood, on broken slag and the rusting shells of refineries.”
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