Great South Road. Self-guided tour.




The self-guided tour shows how road transport has improved. First there were the early tracks arising from land settlement, then Mitchell's Great South Road. Later the Main Roads Board constructed the Hume Highway as a two lane two-way road and in the present day we have a four lane divided road over the full length bypassing country towns.

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