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Falton roflMacquarie Parramatta SYDNEY Wollongong ILLAWARRA HW LI ROAD CLASSIFICATIONS AND LENGTHS IN NEW SOUTH WALES The lengths of roads within various classificaiions and for which the Commissioner for Main Roads was responsible as at 30 June, 1977 were: Freeways .............................................................. I27 Slate Highways ................................................. IO 478 Trunk Roads ...................................... 7 075 Ordinary Mai ...................................... 18 365 Secondary Roads .............................................. 287 Tourist Roads ................................................. 403 Developmental Roads ...................................... 3 618 Unclassified Roads .......... 2 478 TOTAL ............................................................. 42771 km MAIN ROADS8 ANOTHER EXCITING EPISODE In the days before television. a quiet evening at home generally meant sitting on the lounge and listening to a favourite radio OURNAL OF THE DEPARTMENT OF MAIN ROADS. NEW SOUTH WALES programme. Jack Davey‘s”Give Ita Go“ Show, Dick Fair’s“Amateur Hour” and John Dease’s “Quiz Kids”entertained us for hours, while day and night there was a PRICE IARCH. 1978 regular outpouring of serials. OLUME 43 NUMBER 3 Fifp Cents ANNUAL SUBSCRIPTION Names Iike‘Dad and Dave”.“Martin’s iSN 0025-0597 Two Dollars Corner”and7he Search for the Golden ,sued quarterly by the Post Free Boomerang”shou1d beenough to bring ‘ommissionerfor Main Road3 memories floating back. Many serials Editors may use information . J. Sexton imitated life so well that. like it. theyjust contained in this Journal wenton.. .andon.”BlueHills”becamea ddirional copies of this Journal unless specially indicated classic of its kind with 5.795 episodes going 8a.y be obtained from to the contrary. lepanment of Main Roads provided the exact reference to air between 1949 and 1976. I9 Castlereagh Street thereto is quoted At the “flicks”on Saturday afternoon. ydney. New South Wales, Australia movie serials acted like magnets to draw children back each week. Lefl in clif-hanging suspense about our hero’s fate. we usually dreamed a fearful variety ONTENTS ofendingsuntil the next week’sepisode resolved that dilemna but then posed 16 PORT BOTANY-A NEW-OLD GATEWAY INTO AUSTRALIA- another. DEPARTMENTS PART IN DEVELOPING PORT With theadventofT.V.,theserial rz SMALL BRIDGE MAKES A BIG DIFFERENCE-DOWN DOORALONG blossomed asshows like”Bellbird”.“The WAY Waltons”. and “The Restless Years”have brought US the same people in the same ‘4 ROADS ON BLACK SOILS setting each week. Other productions with less attempts at continuity. have focussed ‘8 WHEN ROADS WERE “THE WORST IN ALL CREATION” more on showing plenty ofaction. as in “Kojak” and “Charlie‘s Angels”. COLOUR PAGES The work of the Department has its 19 -LIME STABlLlSATlON ON NEWELL HIGHWAY. NORTH OF MOREE similarities with serials. Our activities are only another instalment in a drama that 10-81 -NEW DIMENSIONS-OF A PLEASANT KIND goes back to the foundation ofthe colony. In this issue, the continuity ofour work is 12 -NEW ROAD THROUGH RUGGED MOONBI RANGES panicularlyapparent. In the Botany Bay article (p. 66). the new Foreshore Road is 33 FOURTH ROUTE FOR SECTION OF NEW ENGLAND HIGHWAY seen as a link with our beginnings here in Cook‘stime. 1n“Roadson Black Soils”(p. 18 RECORD MAKING AND BREAKING-A LOOK AT SOME FAMOUS 74) we see today’s road building problems BRIDGES AND THEIR DIMENSIONS as an echo of the teamsters’ woes last M SIZING THINGS UP-A COMPARATIVE LOOK AT SOME SYDNEY century. Similarly. the Moonbi Ranges LANDMARKS AND THE QE2 article(p.83)showsourcurrentwork asa rounh majorstepin a“continuingsaga”0f 95 R. J. S. THOMAS road improvements. Stories about bridges are always popular so we‘ve included three 96 TENDERS ACCEPTED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF MAIN ROADS in this issue (pp.72.88 and 94). TENDERS ACCEPTED BY COUNCILS Although the work of the Department is not as exciting as “Starsky and Hutch”. nor as muchzanyfunas”M.A.S.H.”. westill have Front cover: Old rruck - old bridge. A recent scene recalling old days and old wajs of as much concern for people‘s welfare as getting over rhe First Moonbi Hill. just north of Tomwrrh. 1,ia rhe Monier Bridge over Marcus Welby, M.D. and we face our Moonbi Creek (see orticle beginning on page 83). problems as confidently as did Perry Mason. Our projects are part of the Back cover: Construction of rhe new Foreshore Road. skirring the north eastern side of continuing story ofthis State and we hope Botany 6a.s. is *,ell advanced (see article beginning on page 66). you aH,ait with eager anticipation - the next exciting episode. .~.. ... PAGE 65 UARCH 1978 I PWI 66 MAIN ROADS PORT BOTANY A NEW-OLD GATEWAY INTO AUSTRALIA DEPARTMENT‘S PART IN DEVELOPING PORT rst Impressions favourable. He described it as “a capacious, For nearly two centuries, this latter rafeandconvenient harbour”and wrote of judgment has proved correct. But strangely “Now allyou young dookies and a sandy wve on the northern shore where enough, the very facts that have in the past duchesses a ship “mighr lay almosr landlocked’; while made Port Jackson such an efficient and Take warningfrom whar I’ve tosa.~ “woodforfuel may be go1 everywhere”. beautiful harbour have now weakened its Mindallisyourown asyou rouchesser Excursions into the nearby countryside worth as the principal port of entry to Oryou’lljoin usin Borany Boy” revealed woods which were “Jreefrom Australia’s largest city and to the nation itself. I ran the words of a popular London undenvood ofevery kind, and rhe whole usic hall song of the 1880’s. In fact, no country, orar Ieasrgrearparr ofir, might be A perfect port - once nvicls ever ended up landing on the culrivared withour being obliged ro cur down ores of Botany Bay. Regardless of the a single tree’: Asaglanceatamapwillshow. PortJackson is a complex of bays, headlands, rivers and rly enthusiasm of Captain James Cook, Cook changed his mind about a name for io rested there for eight days - from 29 inlets. Its waters run deep and its tides are the bay. His original journal entry for 6 May moderate. It has many nooks and crannies pril to 6 May 1770, while charting the east reads “Thegreor quanriry ofrhis SON of@h ast of the continent - Botany Bay had which offersafeshelter to shipsofdeep found in this place occasioned my giving if draught during the worst weather. any short-comingsas a harbour. the name ofSring Rays Harbour“. spite of reporting that on 5 May ’2he wind Fortunately,he later altered parts ofthis In the days ofsail, and well into this century, port. wld norpemir us 10 sail”, Cook‘s comment so that it became first “Boronisr those virtues were vital to a Sydney mments about the bay were generally Bay”and then “Bolany Bay”because of grew around its harbour. but now, the city “the great quanriry ofplanrs Mr. Banks and has begun to outgrow its harbour facililies. Dr. Solanderfound in rhisplace”. The piers and wharves that served an earlier time have been crowded in by both A second opinion residential and commercial developments. Eighteen years later. Governor Arthur Many wharves are located on narrow necks Phillip penned a very different opinion of of land and lack the space they need for the Botany Bay. Concerned with growingcrops efficienthandling of cargo - including its quickly to feed almost 1,500 raw unloading. sorting and temporary storage awaiting distribution by road and rail. hove lefl: Anear!srhort oj8oran.s Ba?. “colonists”, he was very disappointed with yrodixedfrom “Haw,kesn~orrh*s Vo!age ’: the soil and vegetation around the bay. Busy harboui ,urre~ro/MirchellLibrary. Furthermore, according to Phillip, ”‘rhough exrensive, (it)didnoroffershelfertoships While the number of commercial ships e/rr: ”Borany Bay Harbour. wirh a View from rheeasrerly wind, rhegrearerparr ofrhe sailing in and out of Sydney Ports (Port frhe Heads, Takenfrom Cook’sPoinf. baybeingsoshoalrh@rshipsofevenmoderare Jackson and Botany Bay) has not increased ledicared IO his Excellency Lachlan draughr ofwarerareobligedroanchor wirh in recent years, cargo tonnage has been lacquarie. Esq.. GovernarofNew South the entrance ro rhe bay open and are exposed steadily rising. Much of this increase is due Vales. Published Novr. 30th, 1812. by lo a heavy sea rhar rolls in when ifblows hard to the fact that container ships are much West, Sydney. Drawn by J. Eyre. /rom the easr wind‘: Port Jackson (or Sydney more efficient carriers than the traditional ngraved by W. Prefston. ”Reproduced by Harbour as we usually call it), on the other types of cargo ships, At the present time, mrresyoJrhe Naiianal Library oJA urtralia, hand, he described as “rhefinesrharbour in about !%%of container trafic is handled by ‘onberra, fhe world’: Port Jackson. PAGE 6; ARCH 1978 ~~~ ~_____ The steady growth in the number of pleasure craft has also played its part in SCALE 1 6000 053100 congesting Sydney Harbour. Registrations man ofpowercraftcapableofat least 10 knots Concrete Lined are rising by 11% per annum and at the - 4 Open Chonnel latest count - in June 1977 -had reached 76.000 for the whole of the State. a large I / proportion being based in Sydney. This figure does not include lower-powered vesselsorsailingcraft, which are a traditional part of the crowded Sydney Harbour scene. New cargo methods The “containerisation” of cargoes has brought its own problems, along with its many benefits. It offers more efficient stowage and thus greater carryingcapacity per ship. It allow sfasterloading and unloading and thus shorter turn-around times forships. whichearn their keeponly while on the move. In fact, while conventional cargo vessels can spend up to halftheir time at moorings.containerships can reduce this to less than a quarter. However, containers also require extensive wharfstorage and sorting space. as well as special handling equipment to make best use 0ftheiradvantages.They are large(the standard size is6 by4.5 by43 metres, while the “forty-Tooters” are twice as long) and they are heavy(weighingupt0 approximately 20 tonnes).