When was m5 tunnel built

Back to previous menu Close Menu. Home Media releases Final tunnel breakthrough on the new M5. It has also helped unlock private sector expertise and ensure that maximum value is achieved from taxpayer dollars. Disclaimer: The material contained in this site is made available on the understanding that the Department is not thereby engaged in rendering professional advice for a particular purpose.

General Holmes Drive. Edmondson Park. Camden Valley Way — Leppington , Narellan. North-eastbound exit and entrance; south-westbound exit only; Partial diamond interchange.

Roden Cutler Interchange ; Westlink M7 southern terminus. Beech Road — Prestons , Casula , Glenfield. Westbound exit and eastbound entrance only. Georges River. Moorebank Avenue — Glenfield , Moorebank , Liverpool. Diamond interchange; electronic tolling in both directions; toll western terminus. Electronic toll plaza in both directions. Beverly Hills.

Diamond interchange; electronic tolling in both directions; toll eastern terminus. Kingsgrove Road — Campsie , Belfield. Eastbound entrance and westbound exit only. Bexley Road — Campsie , Earlwood , Bexley. Eastbound exit and westbound entrance only. Tunnel western terminus. West Botany Street — Arncliffe. Westbound entrance from West Botany Street [south] only. Tunnel eastern terminus. Cooks River. Many of the details of the project — including precisely where motorway tunnels will emerge and where exhaust stacks will be built — will not be available until late next year when the WestConnex Delivery Authority lodges an environmental impact statement.

But the new tunnels, which will be about nine kilometres long, will run from the existing M5 at Kingsgrove and surface at St Peters. Motorists will have to pay a toll to use them. They will also have to pay a toll to use the existing M5 East motorway tunnel from about There are plans to link the new tunnels at St Peters with another tunnel under the inner west to Haberfield within a decade.

The new tunnels will be built to allow three lanes in each direction.