Burnt Bridge Creek Deviation

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Burnt Bridge Creek Deviation New South Wales
General information
Type	Road
Length	1.5 km (0.9 mi)
Opened	11 February 1985
Route number(s)	A8 (2013-present)
Former route number	Metroad 10 (1998-2013) State Rotue 14 (1985-1998)
Major junctions
SW end	Manly Road Balgowlah, Sydney
	Sydney Road
NE end	Condamine Street Manly Vale, Sydney

The Burnt Bridge Creek Deviation is a 1.5 km stretch of freeway grade road in the Northern Beaches area of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Opened on 11 February 1985, it forms part of the A8 and is the only freeway grade section of that route.^[1] It will form part of the Western Harbour Tunnel & Beaches Link, which will be a motorway-grade southward continuation of the Burt Bridge Creek Deviation through Warringah Freeway, then via a new tunnel under Sydney Harbour to the Inner West.^[2]

It begins just past the Spit Bridge and runs from Sydney Road, Balgowlah to Condamine Street, Manly Vale. There are no entry or exit ramps, and sound barriers run the entire length. Myrtle Street and Kitchener Street run over it but there are no access ramps to or from these roads. It runs, in a northbound direction, close to Frenchs Forest Road, then Brook Road, Bangaroo Street, Serpentine Crescent, Daisy Street, Myrtle Street, Kitchener Street, West Street, Griffiths Street then terminates at Condamine Street.^[3]

It is not tolled and runs in an arc around the south-east direction. The speed limit is 80 km/h for most of its length, reducing to 60 km/h prior to either terminus. The entire freeway grade road can be considered starting at the Spit Bridge and is 2.5 kilometres long with exit ramps on Battle Boulevard and Ethel Street also running over it. But the two freeway grade roads are cut in two because of the traffic lights where it intersects with Sydney Road.

The most direct alternative route is to go east on Sydney Road then north on Condamine Street.

Until the announcement of the Western Harbour Tunnel and Beaches Link project, the Burnt Bridge Creek Deviation sat for decades as an isolated oddity, reminiscent of many planned and never built freeways in the Sydney Basin, much like the Gladesville Bridge road complex.

The original plans for the Warringah Freeway show the Burnt Bridge Creek Deviation as part of an expressway that would service the growing Northern Beaches area. Suggestions have been floated in the interim to connect the two freeways, with the aid of a tunnel, but it took almost four decades for concrete plans to be made for the connection. In March 2017, the Government of New South Wales announced its intention to build the Western Harbour Tunnel & Beaches Link.^[4]

The road takes its name from Burnt Bridge Creek which flows beneath the road, although there is no sign of the "burnt bridge" which gives the creek its name.

See also[]

• A8, Sydney

References[]