12 Facts About Princes Highway

Princes Highway is a major road in Australia, extending from Sydney to Adelaide via the coast through the states of New South Wales, Victoria and South Australia.

Princes Highway follows the coastline for most of its length, and thus takes quite an indirect and lengthy route.

The Princes Highway formerly entered Wollongong as State Route 60 down the Bulli Pass and ran a largely separate route from Bulli and Thirroul through to the southern suburbs from the parallel Princes Motorway, the latter of which bears the 'M1' route designation.

Princes Highway had opening ceremonies in both New South Wales and Victoria during 1920.

Princes Highway starts at the junction of Broadway and City Road in the Sydney suburb of Chippendale.

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The Princes Highway then enters the northern suburbs of Wollongong and the Illawarra region via the Bulli Pass, whilst Mount Ousley Road, which is designated as part of national route 1, bypasses Wollongong's northern suburbs to meet the Princes Highway at Fairy Meadow, and carries inter-city traffic.

From Oak Flats, the Princes Highway is dual carriageway, mostly of freeway standard, with the exception of the Kiama bends at Kiama Heights.

In 2007 the NRMA claimed that the Princes Highway was a dangerous road with ten fatalities and 729 people injured on the highway between Sydney and the state border in 2006.

Each road section has Princes Highway labelled in bold and the individual name in brackets, such as Dandenong Road or Geelong Road.

The 1989 re-alignment of the Princes Highway provides a dual carriageway, four-lane limited access road to replace the original route along Moorabool Street in South Geelong and High Street in Belmont.

From here, the Princes Highway passes through Portland before crossing the border into South Australia.

At this point the Princes Highway is 6 kilometres from Adelaide and 2,055 kilometres from Sydney.