NSW METROAD 1
Former Alignment: Southern Cross Drive to Cahill Expressway

Lifespan: 1993-1999 (6 years)

Length: 4km

Northern Terminus: Cahill Expressway & Cowper Wharf Rd, Woolloomooloo

Southern Terminus: South Dowling St & Southern Cross Dr & Link Rd, Rosebery

Between October 1993 and December 199 Metroad 1 used a combination of South Dowling St and several local streets to connect Cahill Expressway with Southern Cross Drive. Northbound traffic took Flinders St, Campbell St, Crown St and Sir John Young Crescent while southbound traffic took Palmer St, Bourke St and Flinders St - with a tunnel beneath William St. This alignment was clearly only an interim route until the Eastern Distributor could be completed as the route could not handle the vast amounts of traffic that passed through every day.

Construction of the Eastern Distributor commenced in August 1997 and involved the digging of a trench in the middle of South Dowling Street. The new southbound carriageway was constructed first and then northbound traffic was detoured via Odea Ave, Bourke Street and Crescent Street while reconstruction of the northbound carriageway was taken place. Finally, in December 1999, the whole route between Cahill Expressway and Southern Cross Dr was replaced by the Eastern Distributor.

	ID sign assembly at the junction of O'dea Ave & Joynton Ave, showing Metroad 1 coverplated (along with Harbour Bridge & Tunnel by the looks of it). O'dea Ave, Bourke St and Crescent St was used as a temporary route for northbound Metroad 1 traffic during construction of the Eastern Distributor (1996-1999). Aug 2005.
	Double-chevron ID sign at the junction of Bourke St and O'dea Ave, showing Metroad 1 coverplated. O'dea Ave, Bourke St and Crescent St was used as a temporary route for northbound Metroad 1 traffic during construction of the Eastern Distributor (1996-1999). Aug 2005.
	AD sign westbound on Dacey Ave at Moore Park. April 2004.
	AD sign eastbound on Lachlan St at Moore Park. April 2004.
	ID sign at Crescent St, Redfern. O'dea Ave, Bourke St and Crescent St was used as a temporary route for northbound Metroad 1 traffic during construction of the Eastern Distributor (1996-1999). April 2004.
	Cantilevered AD sign eastbound on Cleveland Street, Surry Hills. April 2004.
	Southbound on Flinders Street, this very old AD sign once had SR64, then NR1, then Metroad 1 and has finally been blankly coverplated. April 2004.
	ID sign at the intersection fo Flinders St & South Dowling St, Surry Hills. April 2004.
	ID sign pointing down Flinder St at Oxford Street, Taylor Square. April 2004.
	Badly covered ID sign at the intersection of Flinders St & Campbell St, Darlinghurst (since closed). The sign used to read "Campbell St, City, Harbour Bridge and Tunnel; Metroad 1". April 2000.
	Another badly covered sign on Campbell St, this time at the intersection with Crown St, Surry Hills. The bottom panel formerly read similar to the above sign. Nov 2000.
	ID sign that was recently removed at the intersection of Sir John Young Cr & Crown St, Woolloomooloo. April 2004.
	ID signs that were recently removed at the intersection of Sir John Young Cr & Palmer St, Wolloomooloo. April 2004.

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