Parramatta Road is the major historical east-west artery of metropolitan Sydney, Australia, connecting the City of Sydney with Parramatta. It is the eastern-most part of the Great Western Highway. Much of its traffic has been diverted to modern expressways such as the M4 and the City West Link.
Parramatta Road has rarely been considered beautiful. A local mayor once described it as a "varicose vein." However it has never been considered unimportant. One commentator has said: "Every chapter of Sydney's history has been written on Parramatta Rd."
It begins in the east as a continuation of George Street and Broadway, and skirts the southern contours of Sydney Harbour and the Parramatta River to Parramatta. It forms the boundaries of various suburbs along the way. It ends at the junction with Church Street, Parramatta, where the Great Western Highway briefly turns to the north.
Parramatta Road forms the southern boundary of the following suburbs:
ParramattaRoad is the major historical east-west artery of metropolitan Sydney, Australia, connecting the City of Sydney with Parramatta.
TWO years after it was announced by the State Government, the latest grand plan to revitalise ParramattaRoad is still to be unveiled and the Sydney councils that worked on it fear their efforts have been wasted.
The importance of the road declined with the advent of the railway in 1855.
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Parramatta is a city, suburb and Local Government Area in Sydney, Australia, 25 kilometres west of the central business district (CBD) in Western Sydney.
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