Metroad 5 (Sydney)

Metroad 5
Route information
Length:	47 km (29 mi)
Existed:	February 1993 – present
Highway system
Highways in Australia National Highway • Freeways in Australia Highways in New South Wales

Metroad 5 is a Metroad in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, and a main arterial route linking Sydney's city centre to its south western suburbs and beyond. It links the Hume Highway to the Sydney airport where it joins Metroad 1. It took over National Highway 31's role in February 1993.

Track

Metroad 5 starts from the Narellan Road interchange, Campbelltown, the one time southern extent of the South Western Freeway, and ends at General Holmes Drive (Metroad 1) near Sydney Airport, Mascot. Its entire length is now fully freeway standard. Metroad 5 plays an integral role in providing access between Sydney and Canberra without the use of traffic lights.

Metroad 5 is known as the Hume Highway until the Camden Valley Way interchange and thereafter M5 South Western Motorway to King Georges Road, Beverly Hills, then M5 East Freeway to General Holmes Drive. It is more or less parallel with State Route 54 (Newbridge Rd, Milperra Rd and Canterbury Rd) until Kingsgrove. From Kingsgrove, the M5 passes underground in a 4 km long tunnel, emerging briefly before again passing underground beneath the Cooks River, finally emerging above ground at General Holmes Drive (Metroad 1).

Route

[End National Highway 31/Start Metroad 5]

• Narellan Road (Metroad 9), Campbelltown/Mount Annan
• Campbelltown Road (SR 56), Eagle Vale (Northbound entry/Southbound exit only)
• Campbelltown Road (SR 56), Ingleburn (Northbound exit/Southbound entry only) (Completed 2006)
• Brooks Road, Denham Court (Northbound entry/Southbound exit only)
• Hume Highway, Cross Roads (Southbound entry only)

Start of the South Western Motorway

• Camden Valley Way (SR 89), Prestons (no Southbound entry or exit)
• Westlink M7 (Metroad 7) Interchange, Prestons
• Beech Road, Prestons (Southbound exit only, to Camden Valley Way)
• Hume Highway, Casula
• Moorebank Avenue, Moorebank
• Heathcote Road, Moorebank

Toll Plaza, Hammondville

• Henry Lawson Drive, Panania (Northbound entry/Southbound exit tolled)
• The River Road, Revesby
• Fairford Road (Metroad 6), Padstow
• Belmore Road, Riverwood

End of South Western Motorway

• King Georges Road (Metroad 3), Beverly Hills

Start of M5 East Freeway

• Kingsgrove Road, Kingsgrove (Eastbound entry/Westbound exit only)
• Bexley Road, Earlwood (Eastbound exit/Westbound entry only)

Start of Main Tunnel

• Princes Highway, Arncliffe (Eastbound exit only)
• West Botany Street, Arncliffe (Westbound entry only)
• Marsh Street, Arncliffe

End Main Tunnel
Start of Cooks River Tunnel

• General Holmes Drive (Metroad 1), Mascot (Citybound only)

[End Metroad 5, joins Metroad 1 to city and north coast via Eastern Distributor.]

See also

• M5 South Western Motorway