A GREAT HIGHWAY

Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 51, 1 March 1930, Page 27

A GREAT HIGHWAY

SYDNEY TO NEWCASTLE

(From "Tho Post's" Representative.) SYDNEY, 20th February.

Before very long' now—probably not I later than May—New South Wales will witness the consummation of what is so far the biggest highway undertaking in Australia—the road, as smooth almost as a billiard table, from Sydney to Newcastle The Main Roads Board has come in for n good many hard knocks, but it has done magnificent work in many directions, and this great highway, traversing somo of'tho world's finest scenery, will bo one of it 3 best monuments. ■. • . ■ The opening of the road will moan a further slump in railway revenue, for countless thousands of people who now use tho train between Sydney and the State's coal metropolis will nse tho road, especially as it will permit of an average of about 30 ni.p.h. under normal running conditions. , Newcastle will bo a comfortable half-day's run from Sydney through the far-famed Hawkesbury River country. Anticipating competition in the form of road transport, trio railways have been speeding up and otherwise improving the Sydney-Nowcastlo' service, but tho indications .are that they are playing a losing game.