Pacific Highway (Australia)

Pacific Highway New South Wales
Type	Highway
Length	790 km (491 mi)
Route number(s)	Connected from Pacific Motorway M1 (Brunswick Heads.-Ballina) A1 (Ballina-Hexham) A43 (Hexham-Mayfield West) (Newcastle West-Doyalson) No shield (Doyalson-Wyoming) B83 (Kariong-Wahroonga) A1 (Wahroonga-Roseville) (Chatswood-Artarmon) A1/A38 (Roseville-Chatswood) No shield (Artarmon-North Sydney)
Former route number	Only former and current NSW sections included National Route 1 (1955–2013) (Tweed Heads-Hexham) National Route 1 (1955–88) State Route 111 (1988–2013) (Hexham-Doyalson) National Route 1 (1955–79) State Route 83 (1979–2013) (Doyalson-Wahroonga) National Route 1 (1955–93) Metroad 1 (1993–2013) (Wahroonga-Artarmon) National Route 1 (1955–92) State Route 14 (1992–98) Metroad 10 (1998–2007) (Artarmon-Crows Nest) National Route 1 (1955–93) (Crows Nest-North Sydney)
Brunswick Heads to Mayfield West
North end	Pacific Motorway, Brunswick Heads
	Bangalow Road Bruxner Highway Gwydir Highway Summerland Way Waterfall Way Oxley Highway New England Highway Newcastle Inner City Bypass
South end	Industrial Drive
Newcastle West to Tuggerah then Ourimbah to Wyoming
NE end	Stewart Avenue/Hunter Street
	Parry Street Northcott Drive Charlestown Road Newcastle Inner City Bypass Macquarie Street Central Coast Highway Motorway Link Sparks Road Wyong Road Pacific Motorway
SW end	Mann Street
Kariong to North Sydney
North end	Pacific Motorway Central Coast Highway
	Cumberland Highway Pacific Motorway Mona Vale Road/ Ryde Road Boundary Road Fullers Road Gore Hill Freeway Lane Cove Tunnel
South end	Warringah Freeway, North Sydney, Sydney
Major settlements	Ballina, Grafton, Coffs Harbour, Kempsey, Taree, Newcastle, Gosford, Wahroonga
Highways in Australia National Highway • Freeways in Australia Highways in New South Wales

Brunswick Heads to Mayfield West

Newcastle West to Tuggerah then Ourimbah to Wyoming

Kariong to North Sydney

The Pacific Highway is a 790-kilometre-long (490 mi)national highway and major transport route along the central east coast of Australia, with the majority of it being part of Australia's national route 1.

The highway and its adjoining Pacific Motorway between Brisbane and Brunswick Heads and Pacific Motorway between Sydney and Newcastle links the state capitals of Sydney in New South Wales with Brisbane in Queensland, approximately paralleling the Tasman Sea of the South Pacific Ocean coast, via Gosford, Newcastle, Taree, Port Macquarie, Kempsey, Coffs Harbour, Grafton, and Ballina. The highway stops short of the Queensland Gold Coast where the highway has been diverted as a motorway and the former highway subsequently renamed as the Gold Coast Highway.

The Pacific Highway is one of the busiest highways in Australia, it subject to continual upgrade to a dual carriageway (minimum four-lane) divided road. As of 31 May 2016^[update], 77.6% of the route was motorway or dual carriageway, and 12.2% was in the process of being constructed to motorway/dual carriageway and 11.3% is single carriageway. In June 2015, the Commonwealth and NSW governments announced their intention to upgrade the entire highway to dual carriageway by 2020.

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