Hume Highway

The Hume Highway (also known as the Hume Freeway) is one of the most important roads in Australia, linking the country's two largest cities - Sydney and Melbourne. The Hume Highway is part of the National Highway system spanning Australia, and is signed as National Highway 31 in New South Wales and National Highway M31 in Victoria.

Related Topics:
Australia - Sydney - Melbourne - National Highway - New South Wales - Victoria

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Colloqually driving through it is termed "Up/down the Hume". There are other roads that can be used to travel between these two cities, but the Hume Highway is by far the shortest, quickest and safest, if the least interesting to the tourist. There are a number of potential alternatives for the sightseer, the simplest being the Princes Highway which goes via the coast rather than inland.

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At the Sydney end of the Hume Highway, the last 10 km of road is also known as Liverpool Road, before it terminates at an intersection with Parramatta Road, in Summer Hill. At the Melbourne end, about 27 km north of Melbourne at the suburb of Craigieburn, the new Craigieburn Bypass project is under construction, diverting the Hume Freeway (and the M31 designation) off to the east of the original highway to terminate with the Western and Metropolitan Ring Roads (M80) roughly 15kms north of Melbourne; once completed, this allows traffic to travel from Geelong, Pakenham or suburban Melbourne non-stop to Albury. The original alignment of the Hume Highway is Sydney Road, which runs straight south into the heart of Melbourne's CBD, bearing metropolitan route ("blue-shielded") 55.

Related Topics:
Parramatta Road - Summer Hill - Craigieburn - Craigieburn Bypass

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