Metroad 7

Metroad 7
Major junctions
North end:	Wahroonga
	Pennant Hills Road (Wahroonga - West Pennant Hills) M2 Motorway (West Pennant Hills - Dean Park) Westlink M7 (Dean Park - Prestons)
South end:	Casula
Highway system
Highways in Australia National Highway • Freeways in Australia Highways in New South Wales

Metroad 7 is a Metroad in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Metroad 7 links the Hume Highway (National Highway 31) at Casula with the Pacific Highway and Pennant Hills Road at Wahroonga.

The roads forming the original Metroad 7 route were dual-named with the Cumberland Highway in addition to their existing name. This dual-naming system has been retained even after the reassignment of most of the length of the other Metroad 7 to the Westlink M7 motorway.

History

The original western Sydney Bypass was Ring Road 5, whose busiest section (Pennant Hills Road and Woodville Rd) is between Pacific Highway and Hume Highway with Parramatta in between. In 1974, Ring Road 5 was superseded by State Route 55. The growth of Sydney's west had instead turned it into a primary arterial with huge increase in freight traffic.

In 1994, Cumberland Highway was upgraded and replaced Woodville Rd for the Liverpool-Parramatta stretch. Pennant Hills Rd was widened and retained for the Parramatta–Wahroonga stretch. This Liverpool–Wahroonga route was initially State Route 77(proclaimed in August 1988), later signed as Metroad 7 in June 1993 and was designated by the Federal Government as an interim National Highway in 1994 until the completion of Westlink M7. From the introduction of Metroads in Sydney, Metroad 7 went along Heathcote Road to Metroad 1 at Heathcote. A southern section of Heathcote Road has now been replaced by Metroad 6.

The Westlink M7 motorway was completed in December 2005, and now connects the M5 from the south-west, the M4, and the M2 to the north-west.

Westlink M7

Main article: Westlink M7

With the opening of Westlink M7 in December 2005, Metroad 7 between Liverpool and Beecroft was reassigned to the new motorway. Much of the former Metroad 7 traffic has switched from the Cumberland Highway route onto the Westlink M7 motorway, which is electronically tolled according to distance travelled. The Westlink sports the new alphanumeric M7 square shield rather than the hexagon Metroad shield.

Track

• Cumberland Highway
  • Pennant Hills Road (from Wahroonga to North Parramatta)
  • James Ruse Drive
  • Briens Road
  • Old Windsor Road
  • Hart Drive
  • Freame Street
  • Emert Street
  • Jersey Road
  • Betts Road
  • Warren Road
  • Smithfield Road
  • Palmerston Road
  • New Cambridge Street
  • Cambridge Street
  • Joseph Street
  • Orange Grove Road
• Hume Highway
  • Liverpool Road
  • Copeland Street
• Hume Highway

See also

• Westlink M7