{{Short description|Highway in New South Wales, Australia}} {{Use dmy dates|date=March 2015}} {{Use Australian English|date=March 2015}} {{Infobox Australian road | road_name = Picton Road | state = nsw | type = Road | image = | length = 37.1 | length_ref = <ref name="gmaps">{{google maps |url=https://www.google.com.au/maps/dir/-34.1694175,150.6113551/-34.3652868,150.8593478/@-34.2669678,150.6893615,12.26z/data=!4m2!4m1!3e0?hl=en |title=Picton Road |access-date=7 December 2022 }}</ref> | gazetted = August 1928 {{small|as Main Road 179)}}<ref name="nswgovgaz28">{{cite news |title=Main Roads Act, 1924-1927 |url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/219952359 |work=Government Gazette of the State of New South Wales |issue=110 |publisher=National Library of Australia |date=17 August 1928 |pages=3814-20 |access-date=1 August 2022 }}</ref><br />May 1970 {{small|(as Trunk Road 95)}}<ref name="nswgovgaz70">{{cite news |title=Main Roads Act, 1924 |url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/220183604 |work=Government Gazette of the State of New South Wales |issue=74 |publisher=National Library of Australia |date=12 June 1970 |pages=2207-8 |access-date=7 December 2022 |archive-date=7 December 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221207075936/https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/220183604 |url-status=live }}</ref> | route = {{AUshield|NSW|B88}} B88 {{small|(2013–present)<br />(Wilton–Cataract)}} | former = {{plainlist| *{{AUshield|S|88}} State Route 88 {{small|(1974–2013)<br />Entire route}} *''Concurrency:'' *{{AUshield|S|56}} State Route 56 {{small|(1974–2013)<br />(Picton–Maldon)}} }} | direction_a = West | direction_b = East | coordinates_a = {{coord|-34.169441|150.611371|type:landmark_region:AU-NSW|display=inline}} | coordinates_b = {{coord|-34.365234|150.859184|type:landmark_region:AU-NSW|display=inline}} | pushpin_label_position_a = left | pushpin_label_position_b = right | mapframe = no | end_a = '''[[Remembrance Drive]]'''<br />{{small|[[Picton, New South Wales]]}} | end_b = {{AUshield|NSW|M1}} '''[[Princes Motorway]]'''<br />{{small|[[Cataract, New South Wales]]}} | exits = {{AUshield|NSW|M31}} [[Hume Highway|Hume Motorway]] | through = {{NSWcity|Wilton}} }}
'''Picton Road''' is a {{convert|37|km|adj=on}}<ref name="gmaps" /> rural road that links [[Picton, New South Wales|Picton]] and [[Wollongong, New South Wales|Wollongong]] through the [[Macarthur, New South Wales|Macarthur region]] of [[New South Wales]]. It provides an important link between the [[Hume Highway|Hume]] and [[Princes Motorway]]s.
==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 Highway|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, New South Wales|Cataract]].
==History== The passing of the ''Main Roads Act, 1924''<ref>{{Cite Legislation AU|NSW|num_act|mra1924n24133|Main Roads Act, 1924}}</ref> 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 (New South Wales)|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, New South Wales|Appin]].<ref name="nswgovgaz28" /> With the passing of the ''Main Roads (Amendment) Act, 1929''<ref>{{Cite Legislation AU|NSW|num_act|mra1929n15213|Main Roads (Amendment) Act, 1929}}</ref> 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, New South Wales|Picton]] on 14 December 1938.<ref name="nswgovgaz38">{{cite news |title=Main Roads Act, 1924-1937 |url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/225070281 |work=Government Gazette of the State of New South Wales |issue=191 |publisher=National Library of Australia |date=30 December 1938 |pages=4959 |access-date=7 December 2022 |archive-date=7 December 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221207083816/https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/225070281 |url-status=live }}</ref> Main Road 502 was declared on 16 August 1939, from the intersection with Main Road 179 near Wilton to [[Mount Keira, New South Wales|Mount Keira]].<ref name="nswgovgaz39">{{cite news |title=Main Roads Act, 1924-1938 |url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/225731156 |work=Government Gazette of the State of New South Wales |issue=127 |publisher=National Library of Australia |date=18 August 1939 |pages=4108 |access-date=7 December 2022 |archive-date=7 December 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221207084750/https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/225731156 |url-status=live }}</ref>
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, New South Wales| 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.<ref name="nswgovgaz70" /> The western end of Trunk Road 95 was truncated the interchange with South-Western Freeway (today [[Hume Highway|Hume Motorway]]) on 24 October 1984;<ref name="nswgovgaz84">{{cite news |title=Main Roads Act, 1924 |url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/231373552 |work=Government Gazette of the State of New South Wales |issue=154 |publisher=National Library of Australia |date=2 November 1984 |pages=4108 |access-date=7 December 2022 |archive-date=7 December 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221207090500/https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/231373552 |url-status=live }}</ref> 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).<ref name="nswgovgaz84" />
The passage of the ''Roads Act of 1993''<ref>{{Cite Legislation AU|NSW|num_act|ra199373|Main Roads Act 1993}}</ref> 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;<ref name="nswgovgaz09">{{cite news |title=Roads Act 1993 |url=https://gazette.legislation.nsw.gov.au/so/download.w3p?id=Gaz_Gazette%20Split%202009_2009-184.pdf |work=Government Gazette of the State of New South Wales |issue=184 |publisher=Legislation NSW |date=27 November 2009 |pages=5850 |access-date=7 December 2022 |archive-date=7 December 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221207092440/https://gazette.legislation.nsw.gov.au/so/download.w3p?id=Gaz_Gazette%20Split%202009_2009-184.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref> Main Road 468 was declared along its former alignment from Picton to Mowbray Park.<ref name="nswgovgaz09" /> Picton Road today, as part of Main Roads 95 and 612, still retains these declarations.<ref name="nswroadsched">{{cite web |url=https://roads-waterways.transport.nsw.gov.au/business-industry/partners-suppliers/lgr/documents/classified-roads-schedule.pdf |title=Schedule of Classified Roads and Unclassified Regional Roads |author=[[Transport for NSW]] |date=August 2022 |publisher=Government of New South Wales |access-date=1 August 2022 |archive-date=25 August 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220825104657/https://roads-waterways.transport.nsw.gov.au/business-industry/partners-suppliers/lgr/documents/classified-roads-schedule.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref>
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).<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.rms.nsw.gov.au/documents/projects/key-build-programs/alpha-numeric/nsw-factsheet.pdf |title=Road number and name changes in NSW |work=[[Roads & Maritime Services]] |publisher=Government of New South Wales |date=2012 |access-date=7 November 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160325194425/http://www.rms.nsw.gov.au/documents/projects/key-build-programs/alpha-numeric/nsw-factsheet.pdf# |archive-date=25 March 2016 |url-status=dead}}</ref>
==Major intersections== {{AUSinttop|length_ref=<ref name="gmaps" />}} {{NSWint |LGAS=Wollondilly |LGAspan=3 |location=Picton |type=trans |km=0.0 |road=[[Remembrance Drive]]{{NSWcity|p=on|Bargo|Camden}} |notes=Western terminus of road }} {{NSWint |location=Razorback |lspan=2 |km=5.2 |road=Menangle Road{{NSWcity|p=on|Menangle|Campbelltown}} |notes= }} {{NSWint |km=6.4 |bridge=''[[Main Southern railway line, New South Wales|Main Southern railway line]]'' }} {{Jctbridge |river=[[Nepean River]] |km=6.8 |bridge=Bridge over the river (Bridge name not known)}} {{NSWint |LGAS=Wollondilly |LGAspan=3 |location=Wilton |lspan=3 |km=9.9 |type=trans |road={{AUshield|NSW|M31}} [[Hume Highway|Hume Motorway]] (M31){{NSWcity|p=on|Appin|Campbelltown}} |notes=Western terminus of route B88 }} {{NSWint |km=12.8 |road=Almond Street, to Wilton Road{{NSWcity|p=on|Liverpool|Berrima}} |notes= }} {{NSWint |km=16.2 |road=MacArthur Drive{{NSWcity|p=on|Douglas Park}} |notes= }} {{NSWint |LGAC=Wollongong |LGAspan=2 |location=Cataract |lspan=2 |km=33.7 |road=Mount Keira Road{{NSWcity|p=on|Mount Keira}} |notes= }} {{NSWint |type=trans |km=37.1 |road={{AUshield|NSW|M1}} [[Princes Motorway]] (M1){{NSWcity|p=on|Heathcote|Wollongong|Shellharbour}} |notes=Eastern terminus of road and route B88 }} {{jctbtm|keys=trans}}
==See also== {{portal-inline|Australian Roads}} * [[Appin Road]] * [[List of New South Wales highways]] * [[List of Australian highways]]
==References== {{reflist}}
{{Road infrastructure in New South Wales |state=no collapse}} {{Illawarra region topics}}
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