Camden Valley Way Old Hume Highway | |
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  Northeast end Southwest end | |
| Coordinates | |
| General information | |
| Type | Road |
| Length | 23.1 km (14 mi)[3] |
| Gazetted | August 1928(as Main Road 2)[1] June 1974(as Main Road 178)[2] |
| Route number(s) |  A28(2013–present)(Prestons–Casula) |
| Former route number |  State Route 89(1980–2013) National Highway 31(1974–1980) National Route 31(1954–1974) |
| Major junctions | |
| Northeast end | Hume Highway Casula, Sydney |
| Southwest end | Murray Street Camden, Sydney |
| Location(s) | |
| Major suburbs | Prestons,Leppington,Gledswood Hills,Narellan |
Camden Valley Way is a 23-kilometre (14 mi)[3] arterial road between the southwestern fringes of suburbanSydney and the historic town ofCamden. It is a former alignment ofHume Highway.
Camden Valley Way follows theOld Hume Highway alignment between the localities ofCasula and Camden, commencing at the intersection withHume Highway and Campbelltown Road at Casula and heading west as a four-lane, dual-carriageway road, meetingHume Motorway at an interchange atPrestons, then intersecting with Bringelly and Cowpasture Roads atHorningsea Park and heading in a southwesterly direction, throughLeppington andGledswood, meetingThe Northern andNarellan Roads atNarellan, before eventually terminating at the intersection with Murray Street inCamden; Cawdor Road continues south towardsRemembrance Drive along theOld Hume Highway alignment. The Remembrance Drive is also another former part of the Hume Highway near Camden South.
The road had become an important arterial road serving the fast-growing Sydney’s South West Growth Centre. Since 2015, the road north of The Northern Road isdual carriageway and has four lanes (two lanes in each direction) with amedian strip.[4][5]
Camden Valley Way was bypassed by Camden Bypass between Narellan Road and Remembrance Driveway. The highlight of the Camden Bypass is the Macarthur Bridge, a 26-span, 1.03-kilometre-long (3,380 ft) concrete structure that carries the Camden Bypass across theNepean River and its flood plain. The bridge was built between 1971 and 1973, originally to carry Hume Highway traffic, on a flood-free alignment around Camden.[6] This bypass was in turn bypassed in December 1980 when the section of what was then called theSouth Western Freeway (F5) fromCampbelltown toYerrinbool was opened. It has grown in importance as a major arterial road linking theHume,Westlink M7 andM5 Motorways in Prestons with Camden.[5]
Within New South Wales, the passing of theMain Roads Act of 1924[7] through theParliament of New South Wales provided for the declaration of Main Roads, roads partially funded by the State government through theMain Roads Board (MRB). Main Road No. 2 was declared alongGreat South Road on 8 August 1928, heading southwest from the intersection with Campbelltown Road atCasula throughNarellan to Camden (and continuing northeast through Liverpool andBankstown to the intersection withGreat Western Highway atAshfield, and continuing southwest throughPicton,Mittagong,Goulburn,Yass andGundagai toAlbury).[1] With the passing of theMain Roads (Amendment) Act of 1929[8] to provide for additional declarations of State Highways and Trunk Roads, this was amended to State Highway 2 on 8 April 1929. Great South Road was renamedHume Highway later in 1928.[9]
The western end of Main Road 178 (declared along Narellan Road), previously terminating at the intersection with Hume Highway at Narellan, was extended further west along it to terminate in Camden on 5 June 1974,[2] resulting from the opening of Camden Bypass and the re-alignment of State Highway 2 (Hume Highway) along it. When the remaining section ofSouth Western Freeway from Narellan Road in Macarthur to Yanderra opened in late 1980, the now-bypassed section of Hume Highway was renamedCamden Valley Way on 1 October 1982.[10] Main Road 620 was declared along Camden Valley Way between Narellan and Prestons (and continuing south along Camden Bypass and throughPicton andBargo toYanderra), when State Highway 2 was re-aligned again along South Western Freeway, on 24 October 1984.[11]
The passing of theRoads Act of 1993[12] updated road classifications and the way they could be declared within New South Wales. Under this act, Camden Valley Way retains its declaration as part of Main Roads 178 (Narellan to Camden) and 620 (Casula to Narellan).[13]
As part of Hume Highway, the route was allocated National Route 31 in 1954 for its entire length. When the Camden Bypass opened, this was diverted along it, leaving the section between Narellan and Camden unallocated. TheWhitlam government introduced the federalNational Roads Act 1974,[14] where roads declared as a National 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.[14]: S7 As an important interstate link between the capitals of New South Wales and Victoria, the Hume Highway was declared a National Highway in 1974, and the section between Casula and Narellan was re-designated National Highway 31. When the remaining section of South Western Freeway between Macarthur and Yanderra was open in late 1980, National Highway 31 was re-allocated along it; the former alignment between Prestons and Camden was allocated State Route 89. Camden Valley Way was allocated part of Metroad 5 between the interchange with South Western Freeway and Hume Highway in 1992, then replaced by Metroad 7 whenCasula bypass was opened in 1994. With the conversion to the newer alphanumeric system in 2013, Metroad 7 was replaced by route A28, while State Route 89 was abolished.[15]
| LGA | Location | km[3] | mi | Destinations | Notes |
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| Liverpool–Campbelltown boundary | Casula–Glenfield boundary | 0.0 | 0.0 | Hume Highway (A28) – Liverpool | Crossroads intersection Northeastern terminus of road |
| Campbelltown Road – Campbelltown | |||||
| Liverpool | Casula–Prestons–Edmondson Park tripoint | 1.0 | 0.62 |  Hume Motorway (M31) – Kingsgrove,Mittagong,Goulburn | No southbound entrance to Hume Motorway, southbound entrance to be via Campbelltown Road |
 Westlink M7 (M7 north) – Eastern Creek,Rooty Hill,Seven Hills | Northbound entrance and southbound exit only | ||||
 South Western Motorway (M5) | No westbound exit from M5, westbound exit to be via Beech Road | ||||
| Edmondson Park–Horningsea Park–Leppington tripoint | 4.6 | 2.9 | Bringelly Road (west) – Bringelly Cowpasture Road (north) – Hoxton Park,Abbotsbury | ||
| Camden | Harrington Park–Narellan boundary | 18.2 | 11.3 |  The Northern Road (A9 north) – Luddenham,Kingsgrove,WindsorNarellan Road (A9 south) – Campbelltown | |
| Camden | 23.1 | 14.4 | Murray Street – Camden South | ||
| Cawdor Road – Cawdor,Razorback | Southwestern terminus of road | ||||
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