- Metroad 6
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Metroad 6
Route information Length: 34 km (21 mi) Existed: January 1999 – present Highway system Highways in Australia
National Highway • Freeways in Australia
Highways in New South WalesThe Metroad 6 is a Metroad in Sydney, Australia. It travels from the Metroad 1 at Princes Highway, Heathcote to Pennant Hills Road/M2 Motorway, in Carlingford.
Metroad 6 replaced State Route 45 in February 1999. The Pennant Hills Road section of Metroad 6 overlapped part of Metroad 7 until Metroad 7 was reassigned from Cumberland Highway to the Westlink M7 motorway when it was opened in December 2005. Prior to then, Metroad 6 terminated at the Marsden Rd/Pennant Hills Road intersection in Carlingford.
It is believed that this route will be known as the A6 when alphanumerical route numbering is introduced in New South Wales.
Route
Metroad 6 changes names several times as it passes through the city. Its names from Heathcote to Wahroonga are: Heathcote Road, New Illawarra Road(partly freeway standard), Old Illawarra Road, Alfords Point Road(freeway standard), Davies Road(partly freeway standard), Fairford Road(partly freeway standard) (junction with the M5 South Western Motorway, Stacey Street(partly freeway standard), Rookwood Road, Joseph Street, Olympic Drive(Lidcombe Bypass), St. Hilliers Road, Silverwater Road(mostly freeway standard) (junction with M4 Western Motorway), Stewart Street, Marsden Road, Pennant Hills Rd (Cumberland Highway) (junction with M2 Hills Motorway.
It provides a link from Hills Motorway, the northern and western suburbs to the inner western suburbs, Bankstown and the Princes Highway southbound along the eastern coast of NSW, and several industrial areas, even although it is not necessarily the optimal route to take. Some stretches such as Silverwater Road, Alfords Point Road, New Illawarra Road and Heathcote Road have very few junctions or are in (currently) rural areas, and the speed limit is therefore relaxed slightly. Metroad 6 is a dangerous road, with a narrow bridge at one point and no road divider. The trees along parts of the road are not cut back often enough, leading to poor visibility on sweeping left corners.
Major intersections
The major intersections along the route from north to south are:
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- Hills Motorway (Metroad 2 / Metroad 7) - Blacktown, Baulkham Hills / Ryde, Sydney
- Carlingford Road - Epping
- Marsden Road
- Stewart Street
- Silverwater Road
- Victoria Road (State Route 40) - Parramatta / Ryde, Sydney
- Western Motorway (Metroad 4) - Blue Mountains, Penrith / Sydney
- St. Hilliers Road
- Parramatta Road (State Route 44) - Parramatta / Sydney
- Boorea Street
- Olympic Drive
- Joseph Street
- Rookwood Road
- Stacey Street
- Hume Highway (State Route 31) - Sydney / Liverpool
- Fairford Road
- Canterbury Road (State Route 54) - Sydney / Liverpool
- South Western Motorway - Sydney / Liverpool, Canberra
- Davies Road
- Alfords Point Road
- Henry Lawson Drive - Milperra / Hurstville
- New Illawarra Road
- Bangor Bypass - Sutherland
- Heathcote Road
- Princes Highway (Metroad 1) - Wollongong, South Coast
Metroad suburbs
- Carlingford North
- Carlingford
- Eastwood
- Dundas Valley
- Ermington
- Silverwater
- Auburn
- Lidcombe
- Chullora
- Greenacre
- Bankstown
- Padstow
- Alfords Point
- Illawong
- Menai
- Barden Ridge
- Heathcote
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