Ryde Road is a arterial road in

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. It is a constituent part of the

A3 (Sydney) The A3 is a route designation of a major metropolitan arterial route through suburban Sydney, connecting the A8 at Mona Vale at its northern end, to Princes Highway at Blakehurst at its southern end. This name covers a few consecutive roads ...

route.

Route

Ryde Road commences at the interchange with Pacific Highway, between

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and

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, connecting through a tunnel under Pacific Highway from Mona Vale Road and heads in a southwesterly direction as a six-lane, dual-carriageway road, through the suburb of

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. Ryde Road terminates at the

De Burghs Bridge De Burghs Bridge is a road bridge that carries the Lane Cove Road, part of the A3, across the Lane Cove River in Macquarie Park, Sydney, Australia. The bridge stretches from Macquarie Park in the south to West Pymble in the north. History Th ...

crossing the Lane Cove River, where the road continues south as

Lane Cove Road Lane Cove Road is a major suburban arterial road through North Ryde in Sydney, Australia. It is a constituent part of the A3 route. Route Lane Cove Road commences at the De Burghs Bridge, crossing the Lane Cove River at Macquarie Park and c ...

. Ryde Road forms the only road connection between the Ku-ring-gai and Ryde local government areas, and is one of only four road crossings of the Lane Cove River. It is often a traffic bottleneck.

History

The road was built in the early 1900s, after the

across the steep valley formed by the

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was opened in 1901, known at the time as The Broadway. The passing of the ''Main Roads Act of 1924'' through the

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provided for the declaration of Main Roads, roads partially funded by the State government through the

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(later

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). Main Road No. 162 was declared along Ryde Road (and continuing south along Lane Cove, Pittwater and Wicks Road through Ryde, and continuing north via St Ives to the intersection with

Pittwater Road Pittwater Road is a major arterial road along the coast of the Northern Beaches suburbs of Sydney, Australia, the majority of which is a constituent part of the A8 route. Route Pittwater Road commences at the intersection with McCarrs Creek ...

in Mona Vale) on 8 August 1928; with the passing of the ''Main Roads (Amendment) Act of 1929'' to provide for additional declarations of State Highways and Trunk Roads, this was amended to Main Road 162 on 8 April 1929. The Broadway was officially re-named Ryde Road, between Pacific Highway and

, on 27 February 1952. Ryde Road was initially designated to become part of a major north–south metropolitan arterial route in 1964, when the route incorporating other existing local arterial roads from Mona Vale to Blakehurst were designated Ring Road 3. The

was upgraded to two large high-level multi-lane separate concrete bridges over the Lane Cove River, built alongside each other and replacing the ricketty wooden structure and winding approaches, opening on 15 December 1967. Ryde Road was partly realigned and re-constructed from two lanes to six lanes to Pacific Highway between 1967 and 1972. The grade-separation of the Pacific Highway junction, by building a tunnel under the highway and railway line connecting to Mona Vale Road, was completed in 1989. The passing of the ''Roads Act of 1993'' updated road classifications and the way they could be declared within New South Wales. Under this act, Ryde Road retains its declaration as part of Main Road 162. Ryde Road was allocated part of Ring Road 3 in 1964, before it was replaced with State Route 33 in 1974, then re-designated part of

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3 in April 1993. With the conversion to the newer alphanumeric system in 2013, Metroad 3 was replaced by route A3.

Major intersections

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Route

History

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