10 Facts About Hume Highway

The route of the Hume Highway, by using four high-level bridges to cross these gorges, avoids the Razorback Range, and has minimal earthworks.

North-Eastern Hume Highway was declared a State Hume Highway on 1 July 1925, cobbled from a collection of roads from Melbourne through Seymour, Benalla, Wangaratta and Wodonga to the Murray River ; before this declaration, the road between Melbourne and the river was referred to as Sydney Road or Melbourne-Sydney Road.

The Whitlam Government introduced the federal National Roads Act 1974, where roads declared as a National Hume Highway were still the responsibility of the states for road construction and maintenance, but were fully compensated by the Federal government for money spent on approved projects.

From Albury, the highway skirts Lake Hume and continues across undulating country generally north-east towards Holbrook and then Tarcutta.

Hume Highway has many former route allocations including former National Route 31.

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From this point the Hume Highway Freeway continues 295 kilometres southwest by south, bypassing Wodonga, Chiltern, Wangaratta, Benalla, Seymour, Broadford, Beveridge, Craigieburn and terminating at Thomastown.

The Hume Highway once passed through the village, but now bypasses it.

The original route led west from Tumblong along the Murrumbidgee River, before turning south over difficult country, crossing what is the Sturt Hume Highway and rejoining the current route of the highway as Lower Tarcutta Road.

The section of the Hume Highway from Craigieburn to Campbellfield was a significant bottleneck, with 12 sets of traffic signals in 17-kilometre section of road.

The Hume Highway was where notorious serial killer Ivan Milat picked up several of his victims.