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Overhead gantry in Sydney, Australia From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Meccano Set is an overhead gantry located above a busy controlled at-grade road intersection located at the boundary between Lansdowne and Villawood in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. The intersection is a junction where the Hume Highway, Henry Lawson Drive and Woodville Road intersect.
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Type | Road junction |
Junction type | Controlled at-grade intersection |
Location | Lansdowne / Villawood |
Opened | December 1962 |
Built by | Department of Main Roads |
Maintained by | Transport for NSW |
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LGA(s) | City of Canterbury-Bankstown |
In December 1962 a large overhead gantry with directional signs and traffic lights, was erected by the Department of Main Roads.[1] It was quickly nicknamed the Meccano Set with reference to the children's construction toy Meccano. At that stage, the intersection was a junction for through traffic between Brisbane and Melbourne. Although this was superseded by the Cumberland Highway in August 1988, it remains an important intersection.[2][3]
In early 2019, the overhead structure was replaced with a new identical pre-fabricated version and was completed in June 2019.[4][5]
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