Sydney - Brisbane: best route?

[Jim]

nope. Last time I went up the coast road there was a cop hiding in the bushes for every fixed camera.

And there's a lot of fixed cameras.

[mightyboy]

imo, ignoring all the speed cameras between macksville and coffs, the drive along the coast road isn't too bad...... however wtf is up with the overtaking lanes being closed every holiday due to "holiday traffic management"?? ie no you must not pass that caravan doing 60 in the 100 zone in a designated spot, instead you must find a gap in the hideous number of cars coming the other way and hope to god you get every last kw to the road and then back onto your own side of the road only to be stuck behind yet another caravan 5kms later :p

personally the road south of tamworth, (north of the speed cameras through the hunter on the inland highway is great), as is the teven shortcut near ballina, certainly excites an otherwise boring trip...

[Stevesv8]

At the moment, there are roadworks essentially from the end of the Taree Bypass all the way to Coffs.

I regularly drive Taree / Port Macquarie and during the day its a 60 zone & 80 at night. The cops are all over it to. See at least one person done each trip.

People who have been to coffs tell me its pretty much roadworks all the way - except the dual carriageway from herrons creek to kempsey.

Watch out for the unmarked black holden calais ( yep ) around taree.

[XAC15T]

I know a chick in coffs... she's pretty easy...

[TonyJZX]

she the best roote though?

[10sec rx7]

slant man made it too tamworth... car has no radiator in it at the moment... lucky he found a guy to fix it tomorrow!!

[cracka]

"to" tamworth.


fixt

[10sec rx7]

"to" tamworth.


fixt

get fucked

[blackbart]

to all the people complaining about speed cameras: aren't they all fixed speed cameras?? ie. they have three blatantly obvious warning signs

No. On the way back during daylight I passed two Police wagons with cameras on em. One warning sign propped up next to the car with no time to brake when you saw it. Lucky I never speed.:D

[tim510]

port mac to coffs is shithouse, but will be way better once its done.

ive not been on the inland road in a very long time, but the coast seems better.

[The-Kid]

I did Sydney to Gold Coast. New England from Maitland or Newcastle upto Armidale then took Waterfall Road back across to just under Coffs.
Waterfall was the best driving road I've ever had. Had it to myself all the way from Armidale to under the waterfalls driving into the valley if you call it that.

[smellytofu]

imo, ignoring all the speed cameras between macksville and coffs, the drive along the coast road isn't too bad...... however wtf is up with the overtaking lanes being closed every holiday due to "holiday traffic management"??

I think the reasoning behind it is that the traffic doesn't slow down when city folks cannot merge back into one lane with courtesy and safety .. then compound that with higher traffic volumes, then it makes the merge section a slow point that has flow on effects...

[GreyBeard]

I do the N.E. Hwy 2x a month or more, mostly Tmba/Twth section. I *average* 100 or better. Never paid road tax. Ever. I pay attention. Theres SFA fixed camera's (all well signed), fewer parked camera's. Hwy nazi cars are patchy, some days there will be dozens, other days zero. Even then then they're usual OK - I've had them stick an arm out their window waving with their thumb down indicating to slow down rather that be bothered to turn around an chase me :-) There are plenty of overtaking lanes & I do know how to over-take without them. You can blast up & down places like Bolivia, Ben Lomond, Devils Pinch etc at waaay above posted limits. Tenterfield is the only substatial pain in the arse with a very slow grind though the CBD (if you can call it that).

The entire coast sucks dead dogs testicles. Roads, towns, 'tards & tool heads, eveything.

HtH

[millsi]

i know the val may not like it, but what about going to uralla via raymond terrace, stroud, gloucester, walcha. the road is a bit windy and steep hills from gloucester to nowendoc. not many cops, and faster than the new england hwy. then just up the new england from uralla.

spot on, from ipswich takes 7.5 hrs doing 105. then the run from raymond tce to syd is bout 2 hours.
depends on where u want to go to in bris though. this way avoids all the bullshit around the maitland area.
coast is a nice cruisy run though. pretty hard to miss the fixed cams

[IMOA]

I did st ives - brisbane cbd via coast this arvo in a touch under 9 hours without doing anything that would attract the attention of the road tax collectors. The coast has its annoying bits but it's still a mostly easy run.