M1 Extension to Raymond Terrace
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- Опубликовано: 17 янв 2024
- The M1 Pacific Motorway extension to Raymond Terrace will feature a 15-kilometre extension of the motorway including a 2.6-kilometre viaduct over the Hunter River and floodplain, the Main North Rail Line, and the New England Highway.
There will also be new bridge crossings over local waterways at Tarro and Raymond Terrace, and an overpass for Masonite Road at Heatherbrae.
Significantly, this project will provide the ‘missing link’ in the national motorway between Sydney and Brisbane.
This is one of two remaining locations on the east coast corridor where the route is an urban road with traffic lights - at Coffs Harbour and in the Hunter-Port Stephens region (Black Hill, Hexham, Tomago and Heatherbrae).
The extension is expected to be open to traffic in 2028.
Quite hard to believe this section isn't being built as three lanes in each direction. There's a lot of traffic entering and exiting through this area.
they aint smart enough to do that .
They have to have something to do to screw it up with more roadworks in a few years when they realise it was built too small.....
Realistically - there was only 1 major NSW infrastructure project that was built with enough forecast toi last 30+ years - That was the Sydney Harbour Bridge....
Imagine if that was built as just two lanes each way - LOL
Yep - just like how they cut corners on the Maitland 'wait-about' near the pool and like when they skimped on building only half of the Tourle Street bridges.
With appropriate interchanges and no cross roads 2 lanes in each direction is okay. It matches the existing highway.
Now, if only they could get drivers to stay in the left lane unless they are ACTIVELY overtaking.
The widening of the M1 from the Tuggerah interchange to Toukley interchange should be a wake up call to our pollies/planners. From there north the M1 is a 2 lane goat track each way.
Due to long terms in state and federal government by the LNP mainly.
The plan for The Six Cities between Newcastle and Wollongong will mean a lower standard of living and destruction of the coastal and hinterland environment for the benefit of developers at the expense of residents and what’s left of native wildlife.
This is music to everyone's ears. Once this is open & Coffs is bypassed, it will be a dream run from Melbourne to Brisbane.... Can't wait....!
Geelong to Gympie will be all freeway roads
@@Bernie5172 Beyond Gympie. The Gympie bypass opens sometime this year.
I hope you mean dream run? Unless you own some kind of Dairy trucking company?
Well Melbourne to the QLD Boarder! If you've been to Bris-Bin lately you'd know the Souther Hemisphere's Largest Car Park Starts at Currumbin & Go's all the Way to The Bin & the Bruce Hwy is Just as Bad!
Just do it 🤦🏼
It's about time. The Beresfield to Heatherbrae (via Hexham Bridge) has always been a bottleneck each and every holiday period. Looking forward to the opening of this.
have to start first
as well as every friday of the year
@@gary2741 we have been building it for months already lol
doesn't mean it will be finished on time and under budget though @@shaynethompson415
Absolute pain the in A$$ of a road block, especially on holidays/peak hour
Retired Truckee. I won’t hold my breath waiting for this to get built. Driven that bottle neck a million times.
Have you been through that area lately? Drive along there yesterday and they are well into the clearing groundwork, this is well underway over the entire length.
It is being built as we speak. Both sections site offices have been constructed. Most of the clearing has been completed. Material is being stockpiled.
It’s full steam ahead and will be finished by 2028, it’s just taken 50+ years to get off the ground
It is being built right now. Every time I drive to Maitland through Hexham I have to put up with not just the traffic, but traffic travelling at 60.
Just came back through there and there is plenty happening.
about time.
shoulda been built 25 years ago
In the late 1960s early 1970s, when Neville Wran was Premier, the left wing of the Labor Party, who would go on to become the Insane Greens, told him that there was no need to build any more motorways because (I'm not making this up) "we wont be driving many cars for much longer". And he believed them. I think that that was the first GreenLIE ever told.
Another piece of the puzzle, looking forward to the finished product.
Yes, all Labor talk never gets anything build
If it's anything like the other road projects. We will be 6ft under before it's finished.
This is fantastic. I just did a series on the Old Pacific Highway from GC to Syd and this was one of the last remaining parts not yet brought up to standard. Great to see progress.
Great work Dan an absolute game changer for decades to come 👍👍👍
How long after opening do we have to put up with roadworks to widen it to 3 lanes each direction?
Did this trip from Blue Mountains to Coffs yesterday, it took almost an hour to get from Black Hill to the roundabout at Heatherbrae, ye gods it was intolerable. And this was at midday, not some peak hour madness. Traffic freed up and flowed just fine once we were through that roundabout, no idea what the hold up was. This extension can't happen soon enough.
Could of picked me up in the Blue mountains before you left, i would have happily rode shotgun for the coast.
My work would have been miffed but.... meh.
This is terrific. Great work. Prob should be six lanes rather than four.
I will still have a laugh as I drive past the ev people, charging their evs as the rest of us cruise past at about 100kmph.
Myself and family in our economical diesel family wagon. Doing Brisbane in half the time it did in the 70s. In an ev it will probably take longer than it did in the 70s.
About time. They were surveying this route 10 years ago or more when I was living at Heatherbrae then. The wheels of progress turn slowly sometimes.
thanks dan. albo was infrastructure minister that made hunter expressway a reality and will hopefully be here in 4 yrs to open this up.
Australia can't afford albosleasy for another four years!!!!!!
Goober will still be on his Honeymoon with lovers nuts.
Aah yes, can't wait to get back to the LNP backhanders to all their sleazy business mates, the corruption, the sports rorts, the Prime minister/Health Minister/Industry, Science, Energy and Resources/Home Affairs and Treasury portfolios scandal. The hypocrisy of Barnaby Joyce and his "family values". I could keep writing, but I think you get the drift...
@@user-ot7ec4uc3gno one will be able to afford cars and use this road if he stays in 😂
So I just had the pop up in my feed: I use the M1 and A1 regularly, I live in Newcastle, but somehow I unaware of this. Better watch.
A map comes up, Newcastle, Hexham - Familiar names, road numbers, though I didn't think the river was quite that shape.
Tarro. Tomago.
D'oh, this is the *other* Newcastle, the one with rainforrests instead of just rain.
Greeting from the original.
And greetings to you! I hear Hexam and Newcastle are the same distance and bearing from each other in both 🇦🇺 and 🇬🇧.
There are no rainforests in Newcastle, NSW.
Not too many Geordies at this one, mate 😉
@@user-vk4vd7vr5t Rainforest Walk on Kooragang Island disagrees with you. Literally one kilometre from this very bypass. 🤷🏼♂️
So needed.
Good job.
About bloody time travel this road regularly.
Good to see it’s being built.
Looks pretty good. The sooner the better, although I will miss the morning Hungry Jacks Big Breaky wrap and Cappuccino.
Will this affect Singleton to Nelson bay in any way apart from getting the sydney traffic not blocking up Hexham?
Thankyou please build it soon much anxiority going current way. Also are you the minister that could also build a bypass the area where Ampol Foodary Coolongolook going from 110km to 80km/h for this stretch is quite annoying.
There were speculative plans for this (Coolongolook bypass) when they were upgrading the highway but they were shelved as an unnecessary expense. A shame really.
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if Beresfield to Heatherbrae (via Hexham Bridge) will take 4 years, how long till Coffs gets done?
Yes please, yesterday if not sooner. Still a 2 lane road in each direction but will take this over the debacle that is the Pacific Highway at Hexham at present any day. Will it be this century, as still have to do Coffs Harbour by-pass and other up-grades. Pretty pictures, but please tell us the time frame for this work.
after we get promised electricity cuts
Let’s hope once they finish this last link that they start to concentrate on the secondary way to Brisbane and start building the M15 all the way beside the New England Highway…
So when will Coolongolook get the much needed by-pass
It won't, why would it? you need to slow down for a whole 2 kilometres to 80, hardly an inconvenience.
Heatherbrae Pies 😭
I always like to pull up at the BP at Beresfield, before the run to Coffs for a quick wizz and top up before the the run up to Noosa.
Things will be different soon
I love how cars just magically appear on the road...and how heading north has so much more traffic than heading south...
I remember back when 40 years ago the roads were so much better. Sure you used to have to go further into various towns, but with all this freeway, travel times have not come down, accidents have not been reduced (in fact they have only increased in severity and number due to the increased average speed), and small towns have reduced patronage from the routing of traffic. So tell me, where it the benefit?
Soooo.... aiming for a 2050 start ? I won't hold my breath.
Hope that the overpasses are built long/wide enough to be widened to three lanes each way without having to knock them down and rebuilt them. Ditto for the bridge(s) over the Hunter.
About Time !
This is fantastic news.
Really? only 2 lanes each side? For once I would like to see planners think more than 5 years ahead.
5 years? You give them too much credit.
I think I’ll be well and truely pushing up the daisies before this is completed. I’ve lived In the Blue Mountains for 24 years and they still haven’t pushed a dual carriageway West past Katoomba. With funding for any extensions withdrawn by our wonderful NSW Government. You can only believe that it’s going to happen once it’s completed. Till then only a pipe dream.
Have they started this yet? took my brother up to Newy Airport from The Central Coast last September and didn't see any work that had been done.
Yes, the ground work and clearing is well underway over the entire length, its so good to see something actually happening after all these decades.
Should be able to cover the cost of that in no time with this recent hike in Rego costs!
Will it be done by June 2024, if not it's real late.
I’ll be dead before the ribbon is cut.
Are we doing a singleton bypass too?
we are, its underway and due by late 2026
Did you notice that everyone was in the "fast" lane? That's Australia!
Should have been built 60 years ago!
Provide the long-term planning. I grew up enjoying the M2 corridor as my playground. Polies take your cash, create DIVISION, and make you feel deficient
NSW has more Duel Lane Roads then all the other States Put Together & Also Double the Amount of Tunnels (Road & Rail) then All the Other States Put Together!
2030 finish?
In Asia this would take a month or two to do. Here in this "She'll be right I pledge to do it" place called Oz, I reckon 5 years to complete. Let's see how close I get. Will still be quicker than our fast train "I pledge to do" I suppose. How antiquated we are here.
And you've obviously got no idea how construction actually works. Move to Asia if you would rather their methods.
Who thought this up? Bloody hell it’s a bit late. Hunter valley residents could also do with some decent on and off ramps rather than standing start T intersections.
WHY WHY WHY WHY WHY WHY WHY WHY WHY WHY WHY
IS it NOT going to at least 3 lanes?
Needs to be three lanes. Speed limit 120 - 110 is a 1990s speed limit. But at least with this and Coffs done in 2027/28 the journey will be a bit quicker.
Great but would have liked to have 3 lanes not just 2. I drive the M1 nearly everyday from Newcastle Interchange to Berowa exit and the M1 from Newcastle to The Central Coast gets slowed down to much due to heavy traffic. Sorry not enough lanes.
Glad this is happening but can you also make it 3-lanes. I think its going to hit capacity really quick with just 2 lanes and all of M1 should be 3-laned by now
Finally!
So, if you miss the turn off to Raymond Terrace right after crossing the river then there is no chance to exit despite a number of crossings. Designed by the Roselle interchange team I guess, wonder if any of them own a car? Nice video though, done by the Utopia team?
that's a skill issue
Not our fault if people can’t read signs
Read the signs, this is a bypass not an urban freeway. There is also the Richardson road exit so you can return to Raymond Terrace. Y’all complain about anything
Australia. Convict land. A Skeletal work structure on the outside with the bare basics to fund the exportation industry. We have never been allowed to grow. A Feeder country. Anyone ever drive up the Bruce Highway lol? The ride from Hell. Train from Brisbane to Cairns is 24 hours lol.
There is a god! Thanks
Looks like an episode off Utopia
By the time it's completed we'll be driving around in Flying cars Who'll need roads ?😂
This was supposed to be completed totally after the Grafton bus crash back in the early 90’s
One year, they promised and she’ll be complete
Politicians have been lying for decades
Kempsey bus crash? A longway from here. Kempsey grafton etc are all bypassed long ago and dual carriageway
@@paulgerrard9227two buses crashed head on just north of Grafton in the early 90’s
My matés parents were both killed in the accident…
Many people died
There were a few big accidents around this period
yeeeee haaaa bring it on
Going to be amazing. Maybe the whingers can take the train.
Whilst this is a LONG (generational) overdue effort, it is defective in design and budgeting.
In construction is what is known as an EXTRA OVER COST. ( I am a civil engineer)
In this case the design should be 3 lanes in each direction.
The construction cost to to build 2x2 lanes is $x
The construction cost to build 2x3 lanes is not 50% more as costing is not linear.
When established on site, the cost of making something 'bigger' relates mainly to the cost of materials as "when there" it doesn't take much effort to do more.
That's the simplest way I can explain it.
Recommendation: 2 x 3 lanes.
Two lanes? Seriously?!?
As per usual not much future thinking here but thats normal these days, and also as per usual this was needed 30 years ago. What I really miss is my regular stop at The Oaks at Hexham. That was my one enjoyment in life.
Yeah, that was an era.. 😉
This has taken way too long. The Grafton bypass was completed 6 or 7 years ago. And there's still the dog's breakfast north of Raymond Terrace where there's 100kph sections and even a 90kph south of Taree. And the fact that Coff's is still a long way off.
I'd give efforts to get this done in a timely fashion a 'D' .
The big culprit here is that superannuation has been so messed up by Howard, Rudd, Gillard, Abbott, Turnbull & Scomo we don't have the same _ballast_ of money. PJK saw superannuation as a way of investing in Australia and infrastructure was a good thing. But as each miscreant since has watered it down and made it more lucrative to the big end of town the country has suffered and so have superannuants.
Thats why Hexham, north of there, that stupid 90kph section (last time l looked) & Coff's bypass has taken so phuqn long.
If it wasn't for politicians Monty Python would never ever have got off the ground
And everytime they say they have blown the budget out on a project its cause our politicians have spent the money on there own curriculur activities most the time..the public have no idear..
Don't forget the electric charging stations! Pray for no rain ☔
how about getting all other rds fixed in the hunter ffs
Hang on, how will I get my Heatherbrea pie?
At over $10 each they can close.
@@paulgerrard9227 I don't care about you.
Take the Raymond Terrace exit. Either the one south of RT or the one to its north (depending on your direction of travel).
@@DeepThought9999 Good oh!
How did you get this info my man ?
awesome---20 years too late but awesome
Any inclusion of cycleways/active transport?
On a 110 KMs freeway? Are you joking?
Use the old road, it will be almost empty.
Its a motorway. No cyclists, no horses, no pedestrians. Use old highway
Two lanes is not enough.
Hope for motorcyclists
Ireland has banned deadly "cheese cutter" cable barriers
These dangerous crash barriers combined with intentionally hazardous grooved road surfaces are a deadly combination for motorcyclists in New South Wales
FFS just hurry up and build it !!
Sadly most of us will be dead of old age before this is completed. My children will appreciate it.
sorry that your doctor has told you that you only have 4 years left to live
@@danrepacholimp How you got my medical records is beyond me, but OK. I am on my 8th covid shot and sadly for totally unrelated reasons have just been diagnosed with heart inflammation, a rather nasty auto-immune disease, brain swelling and liver cancer. Lucky I was vaccinated as at my age of 53 I had a 1 in 10 000 chance of dying from covid, and with my bad luck, probably would have. 🤔So I might make it 4 years, which, let's face it will probably be closer to 8 years. All my children had multiple vaccination. Johnny unfortunately dropped dead of a heart attack playing soccer at the age of 23. So, he won't get to see it. My other children will use it on their way to work in Newcastle, they were looking forward to moving out of home and into the big smoke but because of inflation can't afford too anymore. I have a crazy mate who suggested that the current inflation is because of the lockdowns and our deficit going from 350 billion pre covid to over a trillion. How anyone connects government spending with my children's inability to ever own their own house is beyond me, but I suppose it takes all sorts. So, thank for listening, have a great day, unfortunately my great days are now in the past.
@@danrepacholimp LOL. Four years? I suppose you will resign if it takes longer, oh I forgot that politicians don't take responsibility for the commitments they make or the things they say.
have you actually been and looked at it? Progress is well advanced. Late 2028 is the date
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@@danrepacholimp So you have already shifted to closer to 5 years in less than a day.
Went through at Christmas and it was awful. long jams, impatient local and through drivers
So when do they propose to open it? And why do these fools continue to build only 2 lanes?
That road will remain flood prone
Yes nice slick presentation shame it is only happening now! About a decade late.....
agreed. Have a look at who was in government for the last decade. Explains it
@@danrepacholimp Are you serious? The LNP have a track record of budling infrastructure, and what they have done in NSW alone is more than all the Labor governments have Australia wide. Just because one project wasn't done when you think it should have been done, doesn't mean they were asleep at the wheel. And unlike Labor, who just cut dozens of already planned NSW infrastructure projects, the LNP actually planned ahead for them. Like this one. Your ignorance or bias is seriously breathtaking.
This one is more like 3 or 4 decades late.
@@trevorarthur1607 Testify.
@@danrepacholimpah yes the perfect response, pass the buck
As it was supposed to have been finished October 2017, if it wasn't for a few visitors to a mosquito infested gardens it would be over 6 years old. The designer could have put in a service road to answer their complaints. Instead over 10 years later with millions of hours of people stuck in traffic, countless accidents with injuries and deaths, with consultants spending more money then the original build. Alll the pollies and public servants want bouquets when they deserve bats.
Don’t know, butt the designers & big companies who decided to go against this same design 20-30 years ago definitely need a good reaming now! 🤔
Bit late ! Shouldn’t you make it 4 lanes…..each way ?,,?
So we ( our great grandchildren) don’t have to come back and add more ! DOH, Oops sorry forgot
wont happen in my lifetime it should have been built when the m1 was built not ending a major highway with set of traffic lights The cost would of been less back then My prediction is the Belmont desal plant and offshore windfarm will get priority
Yes about time! But typical of the State and Federal Government to lack the foresight to make it three lanes which would have been more cost-effective to do it now, than to wait ten years and then upgrade. Then again they are experts at wasting tax payers money!
I knew of this "by pass" in the 80's, 40yrs later and they're still talking about it. No doubt it wil only be 2 lanes in each direction. The morons that design these roads have absolutely no idea of how to build roads. You want a successful road sysyem, talk to the professionals that use them! Example, truck drivers, bus drivers, cab drivers, ambulance, fire brigades and police! But that would make sence wouldn't it!
The only negative to these improvements is you've got got to get fuel somewhere, and when this and Coffs is done you can bet the freeway megastation will charge you extra instead of having a choice in the towns.
Just get off at one of the many towns and spend some money locally get your fuel then join the motorway again.
Most of the major towns are only a 3-4 minute detour for fuel...
My vehicle easily does Sydney to Brisbane on one tank, but If I need to stop, I always stop in one of the smaller towns and take advantage of the local pie shop / bakery or service station for drinks etc....
Karuah
@@davidh7414 That’s my stop for fuel and until recently oysters.
This is a cover up. We wont drive past the closed Oak choccy milk factory anymore! Always the sad story at the end of the drive to Sydney.
Well overdue.....now hopefully this labor gov gets booted out before they make it impossible to own a car
It ain’t happening folks.
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In WW2 American Engineers offered to build a 6 lane hwy from Melbourne to Townsville for a Petty sum...But our inspired politicians said No we will never need it.. Now it's cost us 1000s off lives and has cost huge losses to productivity and not to mention environmental poisoning due to 80 years off pathetic 3rd world roads
God two lanes?? Really?? I travel Sydney to Canberra twice a week and it's laughable we still have 1980's highway systems. The M7 is another laughable waste.
Straight off service nsw.
Hey Dan, piss off with your junk mail too
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Dan, if you want this to be open by 2028 you really need to have agreed on a design and shortlisted the potential contractors by now. Have you? Of course you haven't!
ahh, you do know construction started months ago?
It was awarded last year
Only about 4 decades too late. Australia really is a backwater but we can find billions for illegal immigrants and NDIS rorts
Never mind
First World Country.......8th World roads (....and rail )😢😢😂😂
Well said hmao
Ne’er a truer word was spoken…
Plus all the other rorts.
Is labour claiming this project? 😂
Yeah cause everyone wants to go to Raymond Terrace.. Not
Everything is two in Australia, two political parties, two car manufacturers up to 2012, two major supermarkets, yep I went across the US west to east .CA to Fl and back via the southern states and depending on the city 4/6/8/10 lanes each side everywhere and when I came back Gladstone to cairns was 2 lanes each way and crumbling.. disgraceful and the same clowns vote labour year in year out.
Wheres the Muswelbrook bypass, or was that pure political gaslighting??
Hey Dan, how much did this video cost the tax payer so it could be viewed by 30k people? how bout the govt deliver on some of the promises it's been making for the last twenty years that still haven't happened.
This govt hasn't been there for 20 years. You're thinking of the other mob. Go talk to Gladys, she was the Transport Minister who did to us what Dashing Darryl was doing to her.
Well that's all very nice. But HOW LONG until it's completed?
This should have been done and dusted THIRTY YEARS AGO.
Well let’s face it, we’ve had to give $2.4 Billion to the World Economic Forum, Albanese’s owners, donate money to Ukraine, and $2 billion to Asia to fight the “myth” of climate change. So please, Australia last
WHAT TWO LANES ONLY.NOT GOOD ENOUGH, BE DOIN ANOTHER ONE IN A COUPE OF YEARS BRAINIAC.😁😁
wont happen in my lifetime it should have been built when the m1 was built not ending a major highway with set of traffic lights The cost would of been less back then My prediction is the Belmont desal plant and offshore windfarm will get priority
sorry that you only have a few years left to live then
@@danrepacholimp if you think that it will only take a few years your dreaming wait until your union mates put the go slows on