Picton Road

Picton Road is a 37-kilometre (23 mi)^[1] rural road that links Picton and Wollongong through the Macarthur region of New South Wales. It provides an important link between the Hume and Princes Motorways.

Picton Road New South Wales
West end East end
Coordinates	34.169441°S 150.611371°E / -34.169441; 150.611371 (West end) 34.365234°S 150.859184°E / -34.365234; 150.859184 (East end)
General information
Type	Road
Length	37.1 km (23 mi)[1]
Gazetted	August 1928 as Main Road 179)[2] May 1970 (as Trunk Road 95)[3]
Route number(s)	B88 (2013–present) (Wilton–Cataract)
Former route number	State Route 88 (1974–2013) Entire route Concurrency: State Route 56 (1974–2013) (Picton–Maldon)
Major junctions
West end	Remembrance Drive Picton, New South Wales
	Hume Motorway
East end	Princes Motorway Cataract, New South Wales
Location(s)
Major suburbs	Wilton

Route

Picton Road starts with from the intersection with Old Hume Highway (Remembrance Drive) in Picton, then heads in a south-easterly direction, rossing the Nepean River and then Hume Motorway and continues over grass-forested ranges east of Wilton (passing through Sydney Water Catchment areas) until it ends at the intersection with Mount Ousley Road (Princes Motorway) in the southern fringes of Cataract.

History

The passing of the Main Roads Act of 1924^[4] through the Parliament of New South Wales provided for the declaration of Main Roads, roads partially funded by the State government through the Main Roads Board (later the Department of Main Roads, and eventually Transport for NSW). Main Road No. 179 was declared on 8 August 1928 from Campbelltown via Maldon and Wiltin to Appin.^[2] With the passing of the Main Roads (Amendment) Act of 1929^[5] to provide for additional declarations of State Highways and Trunk Roads, this was amended to Main Road 179 on 8 April 1929. A branch of Main Road 179 was extended from Maldon to the intersection with Hume Highway in Picton on 14 December 1938.^[6] Main Road 502 was declared on 16 August 1939, from the intersection with Main Road 179 near Wilton to Mount Keira.^[7]

Trunk Road 95 was declared on 27 May 1970, from the intersection with Hume Highway in Picton via Maldon, Wilton and Mount Ousley to the intersection with Princes Highway in North Wollongong, subsuming Main Road 502 and the alignment of Main Road 179 between Picton and Wilton; as a result Main Road 179 was truncated at Menangle.^[3] The western end of Trunk Road 95 was truncated the interchange with South-Western Freeway (today Hume Motorway) on 24 October 1984;^[8] the eastern end of Main Road 612 was extended along the former alignment from the freeway interchange to Picton (and continuing west via Mowbray Park to Oakdale).^[8]

The passing of the Roads Act of 1993^[9] updated road classifications and the way they could be declared within New South Wales. Under this act, the western end of Main Road 612 was truncated to end at Picton on 27 November 2009;^[10] Main Road 468 was declared along its former alignment from Picton to Mowbray Park.^[10] Picton Road today, as part of Main Roads 95 and 612, still retains these declarations.^[11]

Picton Road was signed State Route 88 across its entire length, with State Route 56 concurrent from Picton to Menangle, in 1974. With the conversion to the newer alphanumeric system in 2013, this was replaced with route B88 from the interchange with Hume Motorway to the interchange with Princes Motorway (with the rest of the road to Picton left unallocated).^[12]

Major intersections

LGA	Location	km[1]	mi	Destinations	Notes
Wollondilly	Picton	0.0	0.0	Remembrance Drive – Bargo, Camden	Western terminus of road
	Razorback	5.2	3.2	Menangle Road – Menangle, Campbelltown
		6.4	4.0	Main Southern railway line
Nepean River		6.8	4.2	Bridge over the river (Bridge name not known)
Wollondilly	Wilton	9.9	6.2	Hume Motorway (M31) – Appin, Campbelltown	Western terminus of route B88
		12.8	8.0	Almond Street, to Wilton Road – Liverpool, Berrima
		16.2	10.1	MacArthur Drive – Douglas Park
Wollongong	Cataract	33.7	20.9	Mount Keira Road – Mount Keira
		37.1	23.1	Princes Motorway (M1) – Heathcote, Wollongong, Shellharbour	Eastern terminus of road and route B88
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi       Route transition

See also

Australian Roads portal

• Appin Road
• List of New South Wales highways
• List of Australian highways

References

1. "Picton Road" (Map). Google Maps. Retrieved 7 December 2022.
2. "Main Roads Act, 1924-1927". Government Gazette of the State of New South Wales. No. 110. National Library of Australia. 17 August 1928. pp. 3814–20. Retrieved 1 August 2022.
3. "Main Roads Act, 1924". Government Gazette of the State of New South Wales. No. 74. National Library of Australia. 12 June 1970. pp. 2207–8. Archived from the original on 7 December 2022. Retrieved 7 December 2022.
4. State of New South Wales, An Act to provide for the better construction, maintenance, and financing of main roads; to provide for developmental roads; to constitute a Main Roads Board Archived 11 August 2022 at the Wayback Machine 10 November 1924
5. State of New South Wales, An Act to amend the Main Roads Act, 1924-1927; to confer certain further powers upon the Main Roads Board; to amend the Local Government Act, 1919, and certain other Acts; to validate certain payments and other matters; and for purposes connected therewith. Archived 12 August 2022 at the Wayback Machine 8 April 1929
6. "Main Roads Act, 1924-1937". Government Gazette of the State of New South Wales. No. 191. National Library of Australia. 30 December 1938. p. 4959. Archived from the original on 7 December 2022. Retrieved 7 December 2022.
7. "Main Roads Act, 1924-1938". Government Gazette of the State of New South Wales. No. 127. National Library of Australia. 18 August 1939. p. 4108. Archived from the original on 7 December 2022. Retrieved 7 December 2022.
8. "Main Roads Act, 1924". Government Gazette of the State of New South Wales. No. 154. National Library of Australia. 2 November 1984. p. 4108. Archived from the original on 7 December 2022. Retrieved 7 December 2022.
9. State of New South Wales, An Act to make provision with respect to the roads of New South Wales; to repeal the State Roads Act 1986, the Crown and Other Roads Act 1990 and certain other enactments; and for other purposes. Archived 11 August 2022 at the Wayback Machine 10 November 1924
10. "Roads Act 1993" (PDF). Government Gazette of the State of New South Wales. No. 184. Legislation NSW. 27 November 2009. p. 5850. Archived (PDF) from the original on 7 December 2022. Retrieved 7 December 2022.
11. Transport for NSW (August 2022). "Schedule of Classified Roads and Unclassified Regional Roads" (PDF). Government of New South Wales. Retrieved 1 August 2022.
12. "Road number and name changes in NSW" (PDF). Roads & Maritime Services. Government of New South Wales. 2012. Archived from the original (PDF) on 25 March 2016. Retrieved 7 November 2016.