General Holmes Drive

General Holmes Drive New South Wales
General information
Type	Motorway
Length	5 km (3 mi)
Route number(s)	(No shield) Joyce Drive to Southern Cross Drive x20px M1 (2013–present) Southern Cross Drive to M5 Motorway x20px A1 (2013–present) M5 Motorway to The Grand Parade
Former route number	Metroad 1 (1993–2013) Southern Cross Drive to The Grand Parade National Route 1 (??-1993) Southern Cross Drive to The Grand Parade
Major junctions
NW end	Joyce Drive Mascot, Sydney
	x20px Southern Cross Drive (M1) x20px M5 South Western Motorway (M5)
SE end	x20px The Grand Parade (A1) Brighton-Le-Sands, Sydney
Location(s)
Major suburbs / towns	Sydney (Kingsford Smith) Airport
Highway system
Highways in Australia National Highway • Freeways in Australia Highways in New South Wales

General Holmes Drive is a major road that runs through Brighton-Le-Sands and Kyeemagh in New South Wales, Australia. It is named for a distinguished Australian military officer who died in action during World War I.

General Holmes Drive starts from The Grand Parade in Brighton-Le-Sands, continues into the suburb of Kyeemagh, running along Cook Park, over the Cooks River (Endeavour Bridge), past Sydney Airport. The main traffic route then becomes Southern Cross Drive and General Holmes Drive continues towards the airport terminals to Joyce Drive. Most of General Holmes Drive is part of the 110 kilometre Sydney Orbital Network.

Traffic runs in three lanes in both directions through Kyeemagh, becoming four lanes after the M5 East Freeway junction. The M5 East can only be accessed southbound, and traffic joins General Holmes Drive northbound.

Landmarks

• Sydney Airport
• Sydney Airport Tunnel
• Endeavour Bridge
• Cook Park

Exits and interchanges

LGA	Location	km	mi	Destinations	Notes
Botany Bay	Mascot	0	0	Botany Road – Mascot, Redfern, Maroubra, Sydney CBD	North-eastern terminus at traffic lights
		0.2	0.12	Joyce Drive north / Ross Smith Avenue west – Sydney Airport	Traffic light intersection
	Botany	0.7	0.43	Mill Pond Drive – Botany, Maroubra, Sydney CBD	Traffic light intersection
		1.0	0.6	To Foreshore Road – Port Botany	Southbound exit only
		1.2	0.7	x20px Southern Cross Drive (M1) – Randwick, Sydney CBD	Northbound exit and southbound entrance at partial Y interchange; Route transition: no route number north, M1 continues south from Southern Cross Drive
		1.6	1.0	Foreshore Road – Port Botany, La Perouse	North-eastbound exit and entrance
		2.2	1.4	Foreshore Road – no exit	Westbound entrance only
Rockdale	Sydney Airport	2.4– 3.0	1.5– 1.9	Airport Tunnel
		3.1	1.9	x20px M5 Motorway – Liverpool, Canberra	Westbound exit and eastbound entrance at partial Y interchange; Route transition: M1 eastbound, A1 south-westbound
	Kyeemagh	4.3	2.7	Bestic Street – Rockdale	Traffic light intersection
	Ramsgate Beach	5.1	3.2	x20px The Grand Parade (A1) – Wollongong, Nowra	South-Western terminus: continues south as The Grand Parade
Incomplete access       Route transition

See also

• Freeways in Australia
• Freeways in Sydney

External links

• RTA Webcam