Length:

1333 km (Batemans Bay to Bodalla: 51 km)

Termini:

Northern: Northern: Pacific Mwy (M1), Tweed Heads, at the NSW / QLD Border

Southern: Southern: Princes Hwy (A1), Timbillica, at the NSW / VIC Border

Suburbs, Towns & Localities Along Route:

Mogo, Broulee, Moruya, Turlinjah and Bodalla

Current: A1

Former: 1

Road Authority Internal Classification: ¹

HW1 (Victorian border to Yallah and Waterfall to Kogarah)

General Information:

M1 / A1 is the principal coastal route through New South Wales, and forms part of the circumferential route around Australia.

The route varies greatly along its length and includes sections of rural highway, urban arterial road, divided rural highway and also motorway. The route also features several tunnels, located in the inner east, inner south and lower northern suburbs of Sydney and at Yelgun and Tweed Heads, at the northern end of the route in NSW. The route passes through forest, rural, residential, commercial and industrial areas.

The Princes Highway was formed from a string of roads linking Sydney to the Illawarra, and then forming a coastal route to Melbourne and into South Australia. The section covered by A1 is in 2 pieces - between Kogarah and Waterfall in Sydney, and then Kiama near Wollongong through to the Victorian Border. The route is a mix of urban arterial road, dual carriageway and also rural highway.

Princes Highway:

7 June 1926: The Princes Highway comes under a federal and state government £ for £ funding scheme, thus recognising the importance of the highway as major route.

August 1920: Official opening of Princes Highway performed at Warragul in Victoria. The formation of the Princes Highway is from existing roads being renamed, after the visit to Australia in 1920 of the Prince of Wales (later to become King Edward VIII, and after abdicating, the Duke of Windsor).

1 July 1928: Princes Highway became a state highway. ²

1939: By the middle of the year, 300 miles (or 50% of the then highway) had been paved with bituminous surface.

1950: Completion of road upgrade between Batemans Bay and Moruya.

1955: Opening of steel girder and concrete bridge over Jerramadra Creek near Batemans Bay.

Bodalla to Batemans Bay

Intersection Directional Sign:

ID sign facing Eurobodalla Rd at Bodalla, October 2010.

Image © Paul Rands

Intersection Directional Sign:

ID sign facing Tomakin Rd at Mogo, October 2010.

Image © Paul Rands

NEW Tomakin Road:

Corner of Princes Hwy (A1) and Tomakin Rd at Mogo

Image © Paul Rands

Batemans Bay to Bodalla

NEW Tomakin Road:

Corner of Princes Hwy (A1) and Tomakin Rd at Mogo

Image © Paul Rands

Advance Directional Sign:

AD sign at Broulee, approaching Broulee Rd, December 2013.

Image © Michael Greenslade

Moruya:

Princes Hwy (A1) as it passes through the Moruya town centre, December 2013.

Image © Michael Greenslade

Advance Directional Sign:

AD sign approaching Campbell St and Murray St in Moruya, December 2013. A1 turns left at this location.

Image © Michael Greenslade