Hume Highway
Hume Highway Hume Freeway/Hume Motorway –Victoria | |
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| M31 Hume Highway by-passing the Albury CBD, facing south (2015) | |
| General information | |
| Type | Highway |
| Length | 840 km (522 mi) |
| Gazetted | September 1914 (VIC, as Main Road) July 1925 (VIC, as State Highway) August 1928 (NSW, as Main Road 2) |
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| Former route number | see Former route allocations |
| Major junctions | |
| Northeast end | Great Western Highway Ashfield, Sydney |
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| Southwest end | Metropolitan Ring Road Western Ring Road Thomastown, Melbourne |
| Location(s) | |
| Major settlements | Berrima, Goulburn, Yass, Gundagai, Albury–Wodonga, Wangaratta, Benalla, Seymour, Craigieburn |
| Highway system | |
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The Hume Highway, including the sections now known as the Hume Freeway and the Hume Motorway, is one of Australia's major inter-city national highways, running for 840 kilometres (520 mi) between Melbourne in the southwest and Sydney in the northeast. Upgrading of the route from Sydney's outskirts to Melbourne's outskirts to dual carriageway was completed on 7 August 2013.
From north to south, the road is called the Hume Highway in metropolitan Sydney, the Hume Motorway between the Cutler Interchange and Berrima, the Hume Highway elsewhere in New South Wales and the Hume Freeway in Victoria. It is part of the Auslink National Network and is a vital link for road freight to transport goods to and from the two cities as well as serving Albury–Wodonga and Canberra. It is therefore considered to be Australia's longest highway in terms of its dual-carriageway standard retaining the M, or motorway, alphanumeric.