Hume Highway Duplication
Hume Highway Duplication through Greater Hume Shire
The Australian and the New South Wales governments have signed a Memorandum of Understanding for the Accelerated Southern Hume Duplication Package.
The Hume Highway is the main road freight route between Sydney and Melbourne.
This package of works is scheduled to duplicate 67 kilometres of the Hume Highway in southern New South Wales by the end of 2009, leaving only 20 kilometres of highway as single carriageway.
The Roads and Traffic Authority (RTA) is proposing dual carriageway bypasses of Holbrook and Woomargama to improve safety and transport efficiency.
Under AusLink, the National Land Transport Plan, the Australian Government is committed to upgrading the entire length of the Hume Highway to a four-lane divided carriageway by 2012. Construction of the bypasses is currently scheduled to commence during 2009/10.
The duplication of the Hume Highway will significantly improve road safety for all motorists and improve transport efficiency for communities and industries along this major freight route.
For further information
Contact the RTA’s Hume Highway office
Phone: 131 782
Fax: (02) 6938 1157
Email: Hume_Highway_Office@rta.nsw.gov.au