Syd Einfeld Drive is a six lane, partially elevated,

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in Sydney, Australia. It was built as the Bondi Junction Bypass to bypass a section of

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through

Bondi Junction Bondi Junction is an eastern suburb of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. It is 6 kilometres east of the Sydney central business district and is part of the local government area of Waverley. Bondi Junction is a largely c ...

from

Woollahra Woollahra is a suburb in the Eastern Suburbs of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Woollahra is located 5 kilometres east of the Sydney central business district, in the local government area of the Municipality of Woollah ...

Old South Head Road Old South Head Road is a road in Sydney which goes from the suburb of Bondi Junction to Watsons Bay. It also passes through Bondi, Bondi Beach, North Bondi, Rose Bay and Vaucluse. It is historically significant because its earliest origins ...

. Construction of the road included 26 span prestressed concrete viaduct at Bondi Junction, totalling in length.Bondi Junction By-Pass '' Main Roads'' June 1977 pages 89-101 Construction commenced in February 1977, with the road opened on 9 January 1979 by local member of parliament

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. It was renamed Syd Einfeld Drive in February 1988. On 10 March 1989, a baby boy was born in an ambulance stopped on the road.Double trouble
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'' 11 March 1989 The

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had envisaged a freeway being built from the Sydney central business district to Bondi Junction. However, this was the only section of the road completed, being built in conjunction with the

Eastern Suburbs railway line The Eastern Suburbs Railway is a commuter railway line in Sydney constructed in the 1970s. It is operated by Sydney Trains and has stations at Martin Place, Kings Cross, Edgecliff and Bondi Junction. In addition, it has dedicated platform ...

and

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{{Streets of Sydney Australia, state=collapsed Bondi Junction, New South Wales Streets in Sydney Transport infrastructure completed in 1979 1979 establishments in Australia