The Making of the F3 Sydney to Newcastle Freeway - 1993 Australian Promotional Documentary
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- Опубликовано: 23 июл 2021
- That energetic library music at the beginning could revive a dead man
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Presentation on the planning and development of the F3 Sydney to Newcastle Freeway, now known as the M1 Pacific Motorway, which links the two largest cities in NSW. This footage was produced by Ark Productions.
Credit : State of New South Wales (Transport for NSW) 2016, sourced from Transport for NSW Historical Archives 
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As a 16 year old from Wyong who gained a traineeship in Wollongong I started driving this route regularly in 64. I saw all of the earlier sections of this progressively take the load from a very much overpopulated Pacific Highway especially around the Hawkesbury. The new bridge plus the remarkable works at Jolls Bridge are something engraved in my memory. People who did not encounter the Pitt Street-like traffic around Hawkesbury on Sundays on the old road have nothing to whinge about today.
I was born in '66 in Gosford, we had a farm at Somersby. My father worked on the F3 freeway project in the '60's.He had a Powdermans licence ,explosives, and was one of the guys that planted the nitropyll in the long bore holes that you see in the rockface.
Great vid! Now they need to finish it from Beresfield to Raymond Terrace!
That's in the planning, although it's planned on opening towards the end of this decade.
We're building it right now
god damn that beginning music is FIRE
Only 35 years to build a highway from Sydney to Beresfield - impressive. But 35 or more years just to build grade separated dual carriageway from there to Raymond Terrace....? All those poor Sydney travellers stuck for hours in those queues...
Hours we could have spent bubbling away in our second house spa in avoca... sighs
Sweetie lets just buy a place in Noosa like Mckenzies from next door.
We shall get a charter plane and do away with this traffic
Honey for the last time im a chartered accountant from wahroonga not a drug dealer from palm beach quit that accent and make me a cucumber sandwich at once - oh great now im doing it
Clearly you never experienced the traffic jams that occurred prior to the section of the F3 leading to Central Coast towns was built. It would be an absolute nightmare on the sometimes double lane Pacific Highway. That was in the 60's when Sydney's population was less than 3 million and there were proportionally fewer faamilies with multiple vehicles.
The amount of idiots with their poor manners and freeway overtaking lane ettiquet using this very costly piece of infrastructure is damning.
Not capable of appreciation the animals.
Great gem you posted here.
Thank you for sharing your details video
Very good. I enjoyed this.
It wasn't a freeway to start with. A toll was paid at Berowra . The toll booths can be seen at the opening day. It used to take 3 to 3.5 hours on the old Pacific Highway. Only 1.5 hrs now. Was quicker to take the steam train 2.5 hours.
Yes that's right but the very first toll both were built on the north side of the Hawsbury River Bridge. The office for that tolling station ( as seen in this video ) are still there and are used as an ambulance station and accident emergency vehicle station. It's the brown brick building on the left side after the bridge heading north. Of course the toll booths were demolished. New booths and a tolling station were built at Berowra as you rightly stated.
@@markdrennan5723 I wouldn't have thought there would be tolls there. That part of the free way was built later. The original toll road is parallel to that part of the freeway (old Pacific Highway). Used to be a service station at the top of the hill where Pie in the Sky is now.
It's was the first section of road built.
There were toll booths there ( as in the video.)
The first section on the (then F3) was the Hawsbury River to Mt White.
Yep, 20c toll if I remember correctly.
30 years later and they still haven't even started on the section that skips those traffic lights at Beresfield
Nice!:)
My grandmother Doreen's father used to own coast of Lake Munmorah where the power station is. He was forced to sell at "market value" by the government. Thankfully, the future proved that land to be "worthless", so our family's investment wasn't stolen, and no-one really benefited from the theft.
2:34 "Cost $80 million dollars"
Nowadays $80 million wouldn't even cover the planning, environmental & cultural studies and all the associated red tape
Some things have certainly changed since design work started around 70 years ago.
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Tangara
Since covid people doing 130kph in the right lane has almost become the norm. They should make it 120kph at least. And fine people in the right lane for doing any less.
The Mount of incidents on that road I doubt that will ever happen 😆😆. Every day I see a traffic alert of a 5km traffic jam of the F3
that should be a rule on every major freeway in Sydney. I remember I was Dubai...they have a designated 'express lane' on thier freeways so people dont hold up in that inner lane...some people still dont get the right over taking lane smh
Terrible driving on that road , so bad
China has better roads. It's a piece of shit now with roads that look like something from Africa. Granted it's nice where it is, but past Swansea it's a disgrace. China has perfect roads, and Australia gets bumpy rollercoasters and loud road noise.
China has some good roads. But drivers are appalling. Frightening
it m1 i live in wahroonga
Yes, that is correct for today but it was changed to M1 Pacific Motorway in 1983. Prior to that it was the F3.