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Chapter 6
Road
This chapter presents a range of statistics on road transport including road usage and
Australian road vehicle fleet characteristics.
Recent events
• March 2007: Albury-Wodonga Hume Highway bypass was officially opened.
• July 2007: Pacific Highway upgrade—Brunswick Heads to Yelgun completed.
This 8.6 km upgrade finalised the ‘missing link’ of continuous 60 kilometres of
uninterrupted four lane highway from the Queensland border to Byron Bay.
• December 2007: Princes Freeway—Pakenham Bypass opened to traffic.
• June 2008: Tugun Bypass completed. Between Tweed Heads and Currumbin, the
bypass included a four hundred metre long tunnel under an extension of the
Gold Coast Airports runway.
• September 2008: Pacific Highway—Bonville Deviation. Construction of a new dual
carriageway segment of Pacific Highway south of Coffs Harbour was completed.
Future plans
• 2009–10: the Australian Government announced in its 2007–08 Budget that it will
invest $22.3 billion in Australia’s land transport system from 2009–10 to 2013–14
through AusLink 2. AusLink 1 will cease in 2008–09.
• 2009: the Caboolture Motorway upgrade to six lanes from Brisbane to Caboolture
is expected to be completed.
• 2009: Perth—Bunbury Highway is expected to be completed.
• 2010: construction of the new Northern Expressway in Adelaide between Gawler
and Port Wakefield Road commenced in September 2008 and is expected to be
completed by late 2010.
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