King Georges Road | |
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| King Georges Road, Roselands | |
  Northwest end Southeast end | |
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| General information | |
| Type | Road |
| Length | 9.0 km (5.6 mi)[1] |
| Gazetted | February 1929[2] |
| Route number(s) |  A3(2013–present) |
| Former route number |
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| Major junctions | |
| Northwest end | Wiley Avenue Wiley Park, Sydney |
| Southeast end |  Princes HighwayBlakehurst, Sydney |
| Location(s) | |
| Major suburbs | Roselands,Beverly Hills,Penshurst,Hurstville |
King Georges Road is a 9.0-kilometre-long (5.6 mi)[1] major suburban arterial road through south-westernSydney,Australia. It is a constituent part of theA3 route.
King Georges Road commences at the intersection of Wiley Avenue and Punchbowl Road inWiley Park and heads in a southeasterly direction as a six-lane, dual-carriageway road, meetingCanterbury Road atRoselands. After crossingM5 Motorway atBeverly Hills, the road narrows to a four-lane, single-carriageway road before eventually terminating at an intersection withPrinces Highway atBlakehurst.
The passing of theMain Roads Act of 1924[3] through theParliament of New South Wales provided for the declaration of Main Roads, roads partially funded by the State government through theMain Roads Board (laterTransport for NSW). Main Road 315 was declared on 19 February 1929, from the intersection with Wiley Avenue and Punchbowl Road along Wiley Avenue, Canary Road and Belmore Road toHurstville (and continuing south along Woniora Road to meetPrinces Highway atBlakehurst, and continuing north along Punchbowl Road, The Boulevarde, Concord Road, to Great Western Highway in Strathfield);[2] with the passing of theMain Roads (Amendment) Act of 1929[4] to provide for additional declarations of State Highways and Trunk Roads, this was amended to Main Road 315 on 8 April 1929.
Previously known asWiley's Ave between Punchbowl Road and Canterbury Road,Canary's Road between Canterbury Road and Beverly Hills,Dumbleton Road betweenBeverly Hills andPenshurst, andBelmore Road between Penshurst andBlakehurst,[5] it was renamedKing Georges Road, between Punchbowl Road inLakemba and Princes Highway in Blakehurst on 24 September 1952,[6] presumably in honour of the lateKing George VI who had died the previous February. The southern end of Main Road 315 between Hurstville and Blakeville was later re-aligned to follow the entire length of King Georges Road (and terminate at Princes Highway some distance south than its previous intersection at Woniora Road) on 11 November 1964.[7]
King Georges Road was initially designated to become part of a major north–south metropolitan arterial route in 1964, when the route incorporating other existing local arterial roads from Mona Vale to Blakehurst were designated Ring Road 3.[8]
King Georges Road was re-gazetted to become part of Main Road 200 (continuing north along Wiley Avenue, Roberts Road, Centenary and Homebush Bay Drives), subsuming the southern half of Main Road 315 (its northern half along Punchbowl Road, was made part of Main Road 549, and from Stathfield along The Boulevard, was replaced by part of Main Road 668), on 22 January 1993.[9]
The passing of theRoads Act of 1993[10] updated road classifications and the way they could be declared within New South Wales. Under this act, King Georges Road retains its declaration as part of Main Road 200.[11]
King Georges Road was allocated part of Ring Road 3 in 1964, before it was replaced with State Route 33 in 1974, then re-designated part ofMetroad 3 in April 1993.[12] With the conversion to the newer alphanumeric system in 2013, Metroad 3 was replaced by route A3.[13]
| LGA | Location | km[1] | mi | Destinations | Notes |
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| Canterbury-Bankstown | Punchbowl–Lakemba–Wiley Park tripoint | 0.0 | 0.0 | Wiley Avenue – Greenacre,North Ryde,Mona Vale | Route A3 continues north along Wiley Avenue |
| Punchbowl Road – Punchbowl,Strathfield South | |||||
| Wiley Park | 0.6 | 0.37 | Bankstown railway line | ||
| Wiley Park–Roselands boundary | 1.5 | 0.93 |  Canterbury Road (A34) – Liverpool,Punchbowl,Canterbury | ||
| Canterbury-Bankstown–Georges River boundary | Beverly Hills | 3.1 | 1.9 |   M5 Motorway (M5) – Prestons,Liverpool,Sydney Airport | |
| Georges River | 3.8 | 2.4 | East Hills railway line | ||
| 4.3 | 2.7 | Stoney Creek Road – Peakhurst,Bexley | |||
| Penshurst–Hurstville boundary | 5.8 | 3.6 | Forest Road – Lugarno,Arncliffe | ||
| 6.0 | 3.7 | South Coast railway line | |||
| Blakehurst | 9.0 | 5.6 | Stuart Street – Blakehurst | ||
| Princes Highway (A1) – Newtown,Heathcote,Wollongong | Southern terminus of road and route A3 | ||||
