A HUGE improvement, traffic lights free all the way. I remember the awful days of having to wait for traffic to turn right into the Domestic Terminal from Qantas Drive. That intersection was so bad, glad it is a thing of the past!
I live 2km from the M4 Reservior Road entrance to the M4. The Motorway is 100km/h and 90km/h for most of its length (the total distance is less than 38km). Don’t call anyone out before trying it. Not IMPOSSIBLE at all. I’ve done it. The newly finished fly-over to the international terminal from the tunnel is brilliant….Obviously my airport run was not in peak hour on a week day. Apparently some have a very low threshold for what they view as impossible. 😁
I arrive and depart internationally a couple of times a year. I approach from Newcastle North Connex via tunnel and around the south of the airport. It is so nice to see your video... this is going to be helpful. Thank you.
I've been travelling for decades to the airport international terminal today there's very little remnants of the old familiar Roadways to those destinations. Certainly a complex series of twist and turns to navigate to your destinations miss your turn and you're gonna be in a pickle no turning... back! But I have to admit certainly it's a very nice flow, much cleaner experience overall.
Great video! I watched the arch bridge get built from the REX regional flight each week or so for a while - nice to see it done now. I might take a drive on it one day.
Such a huge improvement! The gardener’s road was usually very congested in the rush hours and this is potentially reducing the travel time by at least 5-10 mins
We've been living in Baulkham Hills for 21 years now, and most of that time the only way to drop off or pick up visitors was to drive the M2 to the airport. Then, a year or two ago the M4/M8 became an option. However, until this month it was a bit of a dilemma whether to stay on the M2 or take the M4/M8. Now, the M4/M8 is by far the best route.
Nice video! I didn't realise how crap the airport access roads were until my last trip over there. At that time Google took me to the international terminal from the CBD via the M5 and a few traffic lights around the western side, which seemed a bit convoluted. I'm still not completely familiar with it all, but it looks much better if you're coming via the M8 now!
@@GreatAussieDrives - Newcastle Jesmond Rankin Park coming along nicely. Ditto M1 to M1 Raymond Terrace - missing link. Singleton bypass should be four traffic lanes, with M15 currently ending at Branxton to become A15, needs to become M class right up to Scone to start with.
I would assume it's likely done on purpose, just to ease that entrance into the international terminal since there's only the one lane into departures. Also that 70 to 20km/h speed limit is pretty sudden, might catch a few people out at first.
Another piece of transport infrastructure success improving Sydney, properly connected road and rail services make cities possible, congratulations Sydney another transport issue solved✌️❤️🇬🇧
This is great, but decades late ! I worked at the Airport and it was ridiculous that a major city airport was so congested to get to from any direction. The M8 helped a lot, but prior to this opening, coming from the West you got off at the St.Peter's exchange and hit a wall of traffic while you crawled through downtown Mascot. Coming from the South East is still a pain, because the M8/M5 heads slightly West on the way to Liverpool, so it's not a great help. Should of been done 20 or 30 years ago.
Worked on this Project 2022/23 Took many Pictures & Video during the Construction Phase. Looks very different now. we were telling people it was going to be toll free, looks like the Gov kept their promise.
Kudos, excellent video. Hey can I be so bold to ask how you take out cut ins (signs) so precisely, i.e is there a specific app which I can perform this? Thanks for uploading such a great video 👌
when i visited the airport some time ago i also got that congestion on exit at 5:40 - pre sydney gateway. are all those cars really going for parking/hotel/car rentals? i don't think so, just following each other like sheep it seems.
Just heads up, your recent uploaded video titled "Driving from Cooma to Bombala & Bega - Monaro Highway Pt 2, Snowy Mountains Highway [4K]" has this error messages that states: "Video unavailable - This video contains content from SESAC. It is not available in your country." And some other video on your channel also went unavailable as well. This is due to dispute between RUclips and SESAC.
Thanks for the heads up mate. This block appears to only be affecting users in the United States (though Americans do make up the 2nd-highest portion of my viewerbase after Aussies). Given the huge implications this has on both RUclips and SESAC artists, I expect a deal to be reached in the coming days, a few weeks at most. And then all should be back to normal!
See Laos, and Cambodia - Euro like typical cross section motorway - great works. same specs in China, India etc, where we follow US model with wide medians. Typically (120) for cars and (100) trucks etc. emergency stopping lanes @ 3.0m wide and traffic lanes at 3.5m wide as with our own here in OZ. Median fully barriered, plants and plastic uprights in median to reduce headlight glare.
The Gateway itself is free but you'll need to pay between $4.80 - $11.78 if you come in from the M8 depending on where you enter WestConnex. Not sure about airport fees
It’s great but sucks that you can’t go from airport & exit at St Peter’s interchange to avoid driving through Mascot. Without that it’s just an extended M8 entry / exit.
As a former uber driver, man it was frustrating when cars in front would stop at at the bottom of the ramp when leaving the domestic terminal, like the red car in front of you and you did it to.. The stop sign only applies to the right lane. Glad those days are over.
It would've been good they somehow had a connection to foreshore drive and the ports. Such an opportunity wasted. Instead the M5 remains choked with trucks from the ports
It’s certainly a great road project! But did anyone else notice the ridiculous and constantly changing speed limits ?? From 90 km/hr to 70 km/hr coming out of the tunnel, then 60, then back to 70 (for no reason) then 40 at the viaduct to the Domestic terminal, then 20, then back to 40, then 20, then 40 for too long a distance….etc,etc… How can any driver keep up with these constant speed limit changes in such short distances, when they have to concentrate on taking the correct lane/exit in such a complex road interchange ?? They’ve really fucked what is an otherwise great new road 😡😡😡
What annoys me is that most major news networks keep stressing that it’s a “toll-free” connection, without mentioning that you have to pay toll to even get ON it. It’s like they had been bribed not to mention it by someone…😒
You can slow the video down by going to settings and acjusting the playback speed. I slowed it down to half the speed. The music will sound a bit weird, but that can be muted.
Roads, roads, roads. Sydney is a maze of roads and mostly far too many motor vehicles, mainly containing one person in each. Think how so much land is under pavement which could be better used in the Sydney area. It simply does not work building ever more roads. A light rail connection to the airport and surrounding areas would have been a far better means of moving people; maybe the government could have included it in the motorway build, down the centre, of the M8. Sydney had light rail until it was shut down in 1962 by the then government, the largest tram network in the world until then. There was even a tram line that went out to Botany bay. More roads, more motor vehicles, then it does not work.
Great drive! How would you compare M40 motorway in the UK from Birmingham to London for entire length, to M1 (fromer F3 Freeway) Pacific Motorway from Sydney to Newcastle? Here's the video: ruclips.net/video/JV1Wv3d9RDc/видео.html
Toll fee for this road toll fee to use that road, What happened to petrol tax and registrations going to fix road infrastructure instead of giving it to toll companies top make more money from the tax payer...
I worked at Sydney Airport and travel there everyday, But I stll dont remember all the road there, just a few main road travel to work and home. I dont know how can someone going to the Airport 1-2 times a year expect to know the best way to the International airport ? following GPS? I dont trust them, lost connection in the tunnel or miss the exit or in the wrong lanes. Secondly, the architecture copy the Sydney Habor Bridge design for Sydney gateway. They running out of ideas and innovation and got paid million of dollars. Hell Hello hello ? It all about connection, you dont need talent or exprience to be millionaire. 😂 The truth is hurt.
Why is Australia only focusing to build motorways in big cities ? You guys always complain there’s no people to build infrastructure for. How will there be people in regional areas when you don’t invest into the infrastructure leading into regional areas. One such good example is M4 and new M12 when it will be finished. Instead of stopping building M4 right at the exit from Penrith you guys could’ve build it all the way to Bathurst and Orange. Maybe even continue building to Dubbo. Also make your motorways more safer. I driven couple of weeks ago to Melbourne from Sydney and status of M31 is horrendous. No safety barriers, lots of dead animals, lots of at grade intersections and abhorrent 110 km/h speed limit… what is this.!? The 1950s!? You guys might learn a thing or two from European engineers …
To be honest, most regional places don’t need a motorway link. I agree that maybe dual carriageways are ideal, but even they aren’t always practical. Australia doesn’t have the population density to support motorway connections to regional areas. As for the Hume, treat it is a Highway Grade road instead of a motorway, no one can stop dead animals, it’s not worth putting in safety barriers because of the wide median strip, and 110 km/h is standard for motorways in NSW. The Hume is a bit of a cheat motorway seeing as it is the M31, not A31, but it is called the Hume Highway. Sorry if I’m all over the place.
@@5fifty nahhh you gave good wording :) but I do have to interject regarding population. Once again you can’t have population growth in regional areas unless sufficient infrastructure is developed. Take my country for example. We don’t have many people living there but motorways are always being built to connect Serbia throughout with its desolate areas so people can travel quicker. Goods can be delivered quicker and more safely than normal two way national road. Every European nation have standardised width of lanes narrow median strip accompanied by the barriers along entirety of way on their motorways (seen this in Victoria with those tensile cables on either side of motorway as well as on the middle of median) paired with 2-3 meter tall fence on both sides of motorway to prevent wild animals coming onto high speed traffic (usually 130-150 km/h) with wild animal crossings built every 50 km. Australia really should start diverting its money into modernising its road infrastructure. Removing at grade intersection and building overhead or under head passes with on ramp access for cars like it does in some places. Also need to improve road surface. I’ve noticed you guys use very low quality asphalt. After few consistent rainfalls it just washes away asphalt. European standard uses 20 -30 cm thick asphalt. Last but not the least adopting European style signage could help greatly Australia. Do you really have time to read whole sentences on signs while doing 80-110 km/h??? This is just my observation as European national who came recently to Australia. Europe isn’t perfect it has its flaws so does Australia and it could benefit a lot both road quality wise and safety wise. (Equipment on roads and process of obtaining license and teaching people how to drive).
@@serbdriverAU Your country should use concrete road that would last for 50 years, Asphalt road life expectancy only 20 years and need maintenance each year. Australia a very rich country but they calculate how many cars travelling on the road and the economic benefit spend billion of dollar. Australian Government lost billion of dollars of revenue since cruise control technology introduced and cheap budget airline $50-100dollar for interstate travel . why spend billion of dollars on Autobahn like Germany for a 100 hundred car travelling each day ? F... them
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Wow, what an improvement. Excellent video by the way, thank you. I'll hopefully know where to go next time I'm back!!!!
Thanks mate, much appreciated!
A HUGE improvement, traffic lights free all the way.
I remember the awful days of having to wait for traffic to turn right into the Domestic Terminal from Qantas Drive. That intersection was so bad, glad it is a thing of the past!
I used it two days ago to take my son to the International Terminal. 25 minutes door to door from Blacktown. Brilliant!
25 mins is impossible
I live 2km from the M4 Reservior Road entrance to the M4. The Motorway is 100km/h and 90km/h for most of its length (the total distance is less than 38km). Don’t call anyone out before trying it. Not IMPOSSIBLE at all. I’ve done it. The newly finished fly-over to the international terminal from the tunnel is brilliant….Obviously my airport run was not in peak hour on a week day. Apparently some have a very low threshold for what they view as impossible. 😁
Great video, it’s always nice to get a look on where the roads go before getting on them.
I arrive and depart internationally a couple of times a year. I approach from Newcastle North Connex via tunnel and around the south of the airport. It is so nice to see your video... this is going to be helpful. Thank you.
I've been travelling for decades to the airport international terminal today there's very little remnants of the old familiar Roadways to those destinations. Certainly a complex series of twist and turns to navigate to your destinations miss your turn and you're gonna be in a pickle no turning...
back!
But I have to admit certainly it's a very nice flow, much cleaner experience overall.
Great video! I watched the arch bridge get built from the REX regional flight each week or so for a while - nice to see it done now. I might take a drive on it one day.
Now, drivers can get to Sydney Airport quickly. Well done!
From western Syd?
@@wotizit, no, not WSI, it's the road to SYD.
Wow what a nice new motorway! Always nice to see new asphalt do it's work :)
Thanks heaps for the video and the effort; one of my favourite channels, I really wished you would have done more roads and posted more videos.
Thanks for the support! 🥰
Nice drive mate, such a big infrastructure upgrade for Sydney
Finally the link to the airport we've always wanted... makes me almost sorry I'm cruising this summer.
It's so efficient, love it. lol
Thanks for sharing by the way :D
Well cut video.. that single lane to the Deborah Lawrie Flyover definitely catches you out.
Such a huge improvement! The gardener’s road was usually very congested in the rush hours and this is potentially reducing the travel time by at least 5-10 mins
Awesome, thanks for the video, much appreciated
We've been living in Baulkham Hills for 21 years now, and most of that time the only way to drop off or pick up visitors was to drive the M2 to the airport. Then, a year or two ago the M4/M8 became an option. However, until this month it was a bit of a dilemma whether to stay on the M2 or take the M4/M8. Now, the M4/M8 is by far the best route.
Healing Out of Spite by CATTY is a good song and it matches the video well 👍
Thank you!
That was awesome
Cool. I bet this video took a lot of forward planning!
What a wonderful ad for Transurban.
Nice video! I didn't realise how crap the airport access roads were until my last trip over there. At that time Google took me to the international terminal from the CBD via the M5 and a few traffic lights around the western side, which seemed a bit convoluted.
I'm still not completely familiar with it all, but it looks much better if you're coming via the M8 now!
Thanks mate! It's definitely very much a game changer compared to the old M5 route
What about doing a drive to and from the tunnels that link up with the M5 motorway?
Very useful. Thank you 🙏. What is the next major piece of road to open? Western Harbour Tunnel ?
I think it will be the M6 Stage 1 and then M12
Yep should be those two plus Rankin Park to Jesmond of the Inner City Bypass up in Newcastle
@@GreatAussieDrives - Newcastle Jesmond Rankin Park coming along nicely. Ditto M1 to M1 Raymond Terrace - missing link.
Singleton bypass should be four traffic lanes, with M15 currently ending at Branxton to become A15, needs to become M class right up to Scone to start with.
Great video, thank you! If only it wasn't for the traffic lights at New Link Rd, they should have made it another flyover to improve flow.
I would assume it's likely done on purpose, just to ease that entrance into the international terminal since there's only the one lane into departures. Also that 70 to 20km/h speed limit is pretty sudden, might catch a few people out at first.
Another piece of transport infrastructure success improving Sydney, properly connected road and rail services make cities possible, congratulations Sydney another transport issue solved✌️❤️🇬🇧
This is great, but decades late !
I worked at the Airport and it was ridiculous that a major city airport was so congested to get to from any direction.
The M8 helped a lot, but prior to this opening, coming from the West you got off at the St.Peter's exchange and hit a wall of traffic while you crawled through downtown Mascot.
Coming from the South East is still a pain, because the M8/M5 heads slightly West on the way to Liverpool, so it's not a great help.
Should of been done 20 or 30 years ago.
Giving only LPOOL or PMATTA lane markings on the entry to the M8 momentarily confused me. They should add SYD to the righthand option
Worked on this Project 2022/23 Took many Pictures & Video during the Construction Phase. Looks very different now. we were telling people it was going to be toll free, looks like the Gov kept their promise.
Kudos, excellent video. Hey can I be so bold to ask how you take out cut ins (signs) so precisely, i.e is there a specific app which I can perform this? Thanks for uploading such a great video 👌
Thanks mate, the signs in my videos are just made using Adobe Photoshop/Illustrator
@@GreatAussieDrives Thanks muchly for the
tip. I am really only a novice at video editing, however I am attempting knowledge up as much practical.
when i visited the airport some time ago i also got that congestion on exit at 5:40 - pre sydney gateway. are all those cars really going for parking/hotel/car rentals? i don't think so, just following each other like sheep it seems.
Just heads up, your recent uploaded video titled "Driving from Cooma to Bombala & Bega - Monaro Highway Pt 2, Snowy Mountains Highway [4K]" has this error messages that states: "Video unavailable - This video contains content from SESAC. It is not available in your country." And some other video on your channel also went unavailable as well. This is due to dispute between RUclips and SESAC.
Thanks for the heads up mate. This block appears to only be affecting users in the United States (though Americans do make up the 2nd-highest portion of my viewerbase after Aussies).
Given the huge implications this has on both RUclips and SESAC artists, I expect a deal to be reached in the coming days, a few weeks at most. And then all should be back to normal!
another GRAND project by China contractors, well done.
See Laos, and Cambodia - Euro like typical cross section motorway - great works. same specs in China, India etc, where we follow US model with wide medians. Typically (120) for cars and (100) trucks etc. emergency stopping lanes @ 3.0m wide and traffic lanes at 3.5m wide as with our own here in OZ. Median fully barriered, plants and plastic uprights in median to reduce headlight glare.
Request: Albury to Canberra
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Yay a none Toll Road for once. Thanks sydney. ( As much as i like travling on toll roads i dont like paying them. )
Sowhats the total cost for cars to/ from the airport via this toll road?
Plus, the fees at the airport it self for drop off/ pick up?????.
The Gateway itself is free but you'll need to pay between $4.80 - $11.78 if you come in from the M8 depending on where you enter WestConnex. Not sure about airport fees
I saw at 1:36 a late lane change, perhaps that might be an issue for some drivers. Right lane only for airport.
Haha yeah the story behind that was I was indicating but the car behind me (out of camera shot) didn't let me in until quite late 😂
Hopefully it will actually improve traffic flow this time…
It’s great but sucks that you can’t go from airport & exit at St Peter’s interchange to avoid driving through Mascot. Without that it’s just an extended M8 entry / exit.
As a former uber driver, man it was frustrating when cars in front would stop at at the bottom of the ramp when leaving the domestic terminal, like the red car in front of you and you did it to.. The stop sign only applies to the right lane. Glad those days are over.
@@bens6674 It sure is stupid, and at 5:38 that banked up traffic after you exit from the international terminal is not much better!
It would've been good they somehow had a connection to foreshore drive and the ports. Such an opportunity wasted. Instead the M5 remains choked with trucks from the ports
the bridge is nice, I'm not 1st comment sadly
It’s certainly a great road project!
But did anyone else notice the ridiculous and constantly changing speed limits ??
From 90 km/hr to 70 km/hr coming out of the tunnel, then 60, then back to 70 (for no reason) then 40 at the viaduct to the Domestic terminal, then 20, then back to 40, then 20, then 40 for too long a distance….etc,etc…
How can any driver keep up with these constant speed limit changes in such short distances, when they have to concentrate on taking the correct lane/exit in such a complex road interchange ??
They’ve really fucked what is an otherwise great new road 😡😡😡
Driving from domestic to international seems like a longer route…
In terms of distance the new alignment is longer than the old alignment as it now goes north of the Alexandria Canal.
@@GreatAussieDrives Why not keep the old road open? More direct
But no traffic lights, so should be shorter time-wise
It's crummy that this is free but everywhere else a new road has a 30 year toll put on it.
What annoys me is that most major news networks keep stressing that it’s a “toll-free” connection, without mentioning that you have to pay toll to even get ON it. It’s like they had been bribed not to mention it by someone…😒
2:08, that right there is whats wrong with sydney
$61.90 for airport parking? 😂
@@GreatAussieDrives Yep!
Can you not do sped up though
You can slow the video down by going to settings and acjusting the playback speed. I slowed it down to half the speed. The music will sound a bit weird, but that can be muted.
@@quarkcypherit’s rubbish doing that and makes it worse
@@nswtrains3153 Just trying to help. It works for me. I suggest you try being polite in future.
@@quarkcypher I wasn’t trying to be rude sorry. I was just saying it’s not that good to watch it even if no audio is on
Roads, roads, roads. Sydney is a maze of roads and mostly far too many motor vehicles, mainly containing one person in each. Think how so much land is under pavement which could be better used in the Sydney area. It simply does not work building ever more roads. A light rail connection to the airport and surrounding areas would have been a far better means of moving people; maybe the government could have included it in the motorway build, down the centre, of the M8. Sydney had light rail until it was shut down in 1962 by the then government, the largest tram network in the world until then. There was even a tram line that went out to Botany bay. More roads, more motor vehicles, then it does not work.
$2.6 billion dollars!!! what a capital B!? why is it so expensive? aren't our tolls to TransUrban enough already
Its all about paying through the nose for the privilege...
Great drive! How would you compare M40 motorway in the UK from Birmingham to London for entire length, to M1 (fromer F3 Freeway) Pacific Motorway from Sydney to Newcastle? Here's the video:
ruclips.net/video/JV1Wv3d9RDc/видео.html
The M40 is definitely flatter. The M1 has a few gorgeous views especially between Wahroonga and Wyong
Multiple merges instead of added lanes. Failure.
Roads aren't the solution to traffic
Toll fee for this road toll fee to use that road, What happened to petrol tax and registrations going to fix road infrastructure instead of giving it to toll companies top make more money from the tax payer...
Remove thou musico
Good video. A real life changer. Never forget it was the Liberals who made this, Labor just opened it
Would have been far better without the crap, unnecessary music.
I worked at Sydney Airport and travel there everyday, But I stll dont remember all the road there, just a few main road travel to work and home. I dont know how can someone going to the Airport 1-2 times a year expect to know the best way to the International airport ? following GPS? I dont trust them, lost connection in the tunnel or miss the exit or in the wrong lanes. Secondly, the architecture copy the Sydney Habor Bridge design for Sydney gateway. They running out of ideas and innovation and got paid million of dollars. Hell Hello hello ? It all about connection, you dont need talent or exprience to be millionaire. 😂 The truth is hurt.
Why is Australia only focusing to build motorways in big cities ? You guys always complain there’s no people to build infrastructure for. How will there be people in regional areas when you don’t invest into the infrastructure leading into regional areas. One such good example is M4 and new M12 when it will be finished. Instead of stopping building M4 right at the exit from Penrith you guys could’ve build it all the way to Bathurst and Orange. Maybe even continue building to Dubbo.
Also make your motorways more safer. I driven couple of weeks ago to Melbourne from Sydney and status of M31 is horrendous. No safety barriers, lots of dead animals, lots of at grade intersections and abhorrent 110 km/h speed limit… what is this.!? The 1950s!? You guys might learn a thing or two from European engineers …
To be honest, most regional places don’t need a motorway link. I agree that maybe dual carriageways are ideal, but even they aren’t always practical. Australia doesn’t have the population density to support motorway connections to regional areas.
As for the Hume, treat it is a Highway Grade road instead of a motorway, no one can stop dead animals, it’s not worth putting in safety barriers because of the wide median strip, and 110 km/h is standard for motorways in NSW. The Hume is a bit of a cheat motorway seeing as it is the M31, not A31, but it is called the Hume Highway.
Sorry if I’m all over the place.
@@5fifty nahhh you gave good wording :) but I do have to interject regarding population. Once again you can’t have population growth in regional areas unless sufficient infrastructure is developed. Take my country for example. We don’t have many people living there but motorways are always being built to connect Serbia throughout with its desolate areas so people can travel quicker. Goods can be delivered quicker and more safely than normal two way national road. Every European nation have standardised width of lanes narrow median strip accompanied by the barriers along entirety of way on their motorways (seen this in Victoria with those tensile cables on either side of motorway as well as on the middle of median) paired with 2-3 meter tall fence on both sides of motorway to prevent wild animals coming onto high speed traffic (usually 130-150 km/h) with wild animal crossings built every 50 km. Australia really should start diverting its money into modernising its road infrastructure. Removing at grade intersection and building overhead or under head passes with on ramp access for cars like it does in some places. Also need to improve road surface. I’ve noticed you guys use very low quality asphalt. After few consistent rainfalls it just washes away asphalt. European standard uses 20 -30 cm thick asphalt.
Last but not the least adopting European style signage could help greatly Australia. Do you really have time to read whole sentences on signs while doing 80-110 km/h???
This is just my observation as European national who came recently to Australia. Europe isn’t perfect it has its flaws so does Australia and it could benefit a lot both road quality wise and safety wise. (Equipment on roads and process of obtaining license and teaching people how to drive).
@@serbdriverAU Your country should use concrete road that would last for 50 years, Asphalt road life expectancy only 20 years and need maintenance each year. Australia a very rich country but they calculate how many cars travelling on the road and the economic benefit spend billion of dollar. Australian Government lost billion of dollars of revenue since cruise control technology introduced and cheap budget airline $50-100dollar for interstate travel . why spend billion of dollars on Autobahn like Germany for a 100 hundred car travelling each day ? F... them
Boy. Things've changed a bit since I was last here 45 years ago.
@@bens6674 bruh