Eastern Distributor
The Eastern Distributor is a 4.7-kilometre-long (2.9 mi) motorway in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Part of the M1 and the Sydney Orbital Network, the motorway links the Sydney central business district with the south-east and Sydney Airport. The Eastern Distributor separates Sydney's Eastern Suburbs from Sydney's Inner-Southern Suburbs. The centre-piece is a 1.7 km (1.1 mi) tunnel running from Woolloomooloo to Surry Hills. Built as a build-own-operate-transfer project, it is 75.1% owned by Transurban.
Eastern Distributor New South Wales | |
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| Tunnel entrance at Woolloomooloo | |
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| Type | Motorway |
| Length | 4.7 km (2.9 mi) |
| Opened | December 1999 |
| Gazetted | July 1997 |
| Route number(s) | M1 (2013–present) |
| Former route number | Metroad 1 (1999–2013) |
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| North end | Cahill Expressway Woolloomooloo, Sydney |
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| South end | Southern Cross Drive Kensington, Sydney |
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The motorway opened to traffic in December 1999, with the project fully completed in July 2000. It is only tolled in the northbound direction.
Transurban considers the southern end of Cahill Expressway (including the Domain Tunnel) to be part of the Eastern Distributor, and denotes the latter to have a total length of 6 kilometres (4 mi). The length of 4.7 kilometres (2.9 mi) used in this article refers to the length of the motorway constructed in the 1990s between the southern end of Cahill Expressway (Cowper Wharf Road) and the northern end of Southern Cross Drive (Link Road).