M2 (Sydney)

M2 New South Wales
General information
Type	Motorway
Length	25 km (16 mi)
Opened	November 1993
Highway system
Highways in Australia National Highway • Freeways in Australia Highways in New South Wales

The M2 is a route in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. It links Windsor to Bella Vista. It consists of two separately named motorways, the M2 Hills Motorway and the Lane Cove Tunnel. The M2 route replaces the motorway sections of what was known as Metroad 2 from 1993 to 2013, with the non-motorway sections replaced by route A2.

Route information

• Extremities: Lane Cove Tunnel (south end) at Artarmon to Windsor
• Approximate length: 25 km
• Freeway-grade length: 31 km (Lane Cove Tunnel to Old Windsor Road)
• Formed: November 1993; realigned 1997, 2005 & 2007
• Replaced: most of State Route 28 (between Carlingford to Artarmon via North Ryde), most of State Route 30 (between Ryde to Castle Hill via Beecroft), and multiplexed with part of State Route 40 on Windsor Road.
• Names: Lane Cove Tunnel, M2 Hills Motorway, Old Windsor Road, Windsor Road.
• Cost to travel: Lane Cove Tunnel $2.49, M2 Hills Motorway $6.00 each way

Major intersections

From Bella Vista to Artarmon, the major intersections along the route are:

• Westlink M7

Hills Motorway

• Abbott Road / Old Windsor Road
• Windsor Road (formerly State Route 40)
• Pennant Hills Road (Cumberland Highway)
• Beecroft Road
• Lane Cove Road (Metroad 3)
• Delhi Road

Lane Cove Tunnel

• Epping Road
• Longueville Road / Pacific Highway / Gore Hill Freeway

Lane Cove Tunnel and M2 Hills Motorway

Main articles: Lane Cove Tunnel and M2 Hills Motorway

The Lane Cove Tunnel was open to traffic in March 2007. Prior to the opening of the Lane Cove Tunnel, the Metroad 2 followed Epping Road, between the Pacific Highway and Mowbray Road west. The M2 Hills Motorway was opened nearly 10 years prior to the Lane Cove Tunnel in May 1997, replacing sections of Metroad 2 between North Ryde and Baulkham Hills, between Old Windsor road and Carlingford Road, along Epping Road to Delhi Road, Beecroft Road, Pennant Hills Road (Part of the Cumberland Highway), Castle Hill Road and Showground Road, Old Windsor Road and Windsor Road.

History of the Metroad 2 route

Prior to the opening of the M2 Hills Motorway in 1997, the Metroad 2 route ran along Epping Road, Beecroft Road, Pennant Hills Road (Part of the Cumberland Highway), Castle Hill Road and Showground Road, Old Windsor Road and Windsor Road. These former stretches were once parts of State Routes 28, 30 until Metroad 2 replaced them in November 1993.

The southern/eastern extremity of Metroad 2 was originally at the city end of the Sydney Harbour Bridge, with the Warringah Freeway and Gore Hill Freeway labelled both Metroad 1 and Metroad 2. However the route was later truncated with Metroad 2 ending at the east end of the Lane Cove Tunnel.

In 2013 with the introduction of alphanumeric route numbers in New South Wales, Metroad was decommissioned, with the motorway sections replaced by route M2, and the non-motorway sections (Old Windsor Road and Windsor Road) receiving the A2 marker.

See also

• M2 Hills Motorway
• Lane Cove Tunnel