2019 Easter Long Weekend Travel Requirements Load carrying vehicles Roads and Maritime Services | March 2019

Travel restrictions apply for oversize load carrying vehicles, such as low loaders transporting Day time requirements oversize equipment, during the Easter long Oversize load carrying vehicles can travel in the weekend. These requirements are outlined in the day time during the Easter long weekend, subject Class 1 Load Carrying Vehicle to additional travel restrictions on specified roads Operator’s Guide, the NSW Schedule of the Multi- in the NSW Urban and Regional Zones between State Class 1 Dimension Exemption Notice 2016 sunrise on 19 April 2019 and sunset 22 April 2019. and additional requirements for vehicles operating under an access permit in the Additional Access Note: A Class 1 heavy vehicle transporting an Conditions for oversize and overmass heavy agricultural cotton machine on Easter Saturday or vehicles and loads. This document provides an Easter Sunday can travel on specific roads as overview of the Easter long weekend travel outlined in the NSW Class 1 Agricultural Cotton requirements. Vehicle Exemption For Permitted Heavy Vehicles (Notice) 2016.

Night time requirements NSW Urban Zone There is no change to night travel requirements for Load carrying vehicles exceeding 2.5m wide oversize load carrying vehicles during the Easter and/or 22m long cannot travel in the day time long weekend. between sunrise on 19 April 2019 and sunset on 22 April 2019 on the following roads (a vehicle Load carrying vehicles up to 2.5m wide and 22m travelling across a road is exempted): long are permitted to travel between sunset and sunrise. Road Start Point End Point Load carrying vehicles exceeding 2.5m wide Broadway South Kiama and/or 22m long are permitted to travel when Parramatta Picton Road accompanied by at least one pilot vehicle: Road interchange

• NSW Urban Zone – between midnight and F1 Warringah Masonite Road, Pacific Highway Freeway, North sunrise on all approved roads Heatherbrae • NSW Regional Zone – on selected roads Sydney at times specified for each road. These can New England be viewed in the New South Wales Class 1 Highway Hexham Bridge Weakleys Drive Load Carrying Vehicle Operator’s Guide . M1 Pacific Central Coast Pacific Highway, Motorway, Highway Doyalson Kariong

1 Road Start Point End Point Road Start Point End Point

Pacific Highway Newcastle Pacific Highway, Highway, Bypass Sandgate New England Queensland Windale Weakleys Drive Highway border Hume Cumberland Pacific Highway, , , Highway Wahroonga Highway, Liverpool Dubbo Whittingham Great Western Nepean River, Broadway Emu Plains Newell Highway, Highway, Dubbo Willoughby Bathurst F1 Warringah Sydney Road, Freeway Harbour Bridge Great Western Naremburn Castlereagh Newell Highway, Highway, Highway Gilgandra M2 Motorway North Ryde Seven Hills Marrangaroo

M1 Pacific Newell Wahroonga Beresfield Kamilaroi Newell Highway, Motorway Highway, Highway Narrabri Willow Tree Nepean River, M4 Motorway Concord Road Leonay Newell Highway Tocumwal Goondiwindi

M5 Motorway Kyeemagh Prestons Great Western Mid Western Newell Highway, Highway, M1 Princes Highway Marsden Waterfall Yallah Bathurst Motorway Hume Newell Highway, M7 Motorway Seven Hills Preston Highway, Lower Tarcutta Gore Hill Freeway Naremburn Lane Cove Victorian Newell Highway, Highway Border Finley Load carrying vehicles exceeding 3.5m wide Victorian border cannot travel on any State ACT border and/or 25m long near Rockton Roads* in the NSW Urban Zone in the day time between sunrise 19 April 2019 and sunset 22 April Snowy Mountains Princes Hume Highway 2019. Highway Highway, Bega

*State Roads can be viewed by selecting State Newell Highway, Port Macquarie Roads on the NSW OSOM Load Carrying Coonabarabran Vehicles map. Pacific Newell Highway, Highway, Moree NSW Regional Zone South Grafton Load carrying vehicles exceeding 2.5m wide Pacific cannot travel in the day time Newell Highway, and/or 22m long Highway, Boggabilla between sunrise on 19 April 2019 and sunset on Ballina 22 April 2019 on the following roads (a vehicle travelling across a road is exempted): Pacific Gold Coast Highway, Queensland Highway Tweed Heads border Road Start Point End Point West Gold Coast Albion Park Hume Highway Masonite Highway Pacific Highway Road, interchange, Federal Highway Hume Highway ACT border Heatherbrae Tweed Heads West Hume Highway ACT border

Princes Highway South Kiama Victorian border Hume Irrigation Way, Burley Griffin Highway, west east of Highway Hume Highway Picton Road Victorian border of Bowning Griffith

Great Western Nepean River Bathurst Newell Mid Western

2 Road Start Point End Point

Highway, 16km Highway, north of Goolgowi

Newell Lachlan Valley Hume Highway, Highway, Way north of Yass Forbes

Kings Highway Braidwood Batemans Bay

Hume Highway, north Cowra of Albury M1 Motorway Hunter New England near Expressway Highway Seahampton

In addition to the above restrictions, load carrying vehicles exceeding 3.5m wide and/ or 25m long cannot travel on any State Roads* in the NSW Regional Zone east of and including the Newell Hwy. Please note there are restrictions on sections of Kidman Way, and west of the Newell Hwy (please refer to the above table). *State Roads can be viewed by selecting State Roads on the NSW OSOM Load Carrying Vehicles map. This also includes all roads listed in the above table.

Contact us If you have any questions or would like more on the Easter Long Weekend Travel Requirements please contact the Road Access Unit:

1300 656 371

[email protected]

www.rms.nsw.gov.au/osom

Roads and Maritime Services, Road Access Unit PO Box 94 Glen Innes NSW 2370

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