GREAT HIGHWAY.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20965, 3 March 1930, Page 8

GREAT HIGHWAY.

SYDNEY TO NEWCASTLE. MAGNIFICENT SCENIC ROAD. IFbosi Due Own Coesespondent.) SYDNEY, February 20. Before very Ion" now—probably not 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 as a billiard talj'y, from Sydney to Newcastle. The Main Roads Board has come in for a good many hard knocks, but it has done magnificent work in many directions, and this great highway, traversing some of the world’s finest scenery, will be one of its best monuments. The opening of the road will mean a further slump in railway revenue, for countless thousands of people who now use the train between Sydney and the States’ coal metropolis will use the road, especially as it will permit of an average of about 30 m.p.h. under normal running conditions. Newcastle be a comfortable half-day’s run from Sydney through the far-famed Hawkcsbnry River country. Anticipating competition in the form of road transport, the railways have been speeding up and otherwise improving the Sydney-Newcastlc service, the indications are that they arc playh;g a losing game.