Improving bus travel on strategic bus corridors serving Castle Hill

The RTA has completed a series of bus priority treatments in Windsor Road and in Church Street to improve bus services connecting Castle Hill with Parramatta and the Sydney CBD.

The treatments are part of a NSW Government initiative that is developing a network of 43 strategic bus corridors across the Sydney metropolitan area.

Bus priority measures are being installed at key points on the corridors to help provide more reliable and efficient bus services.

Preliminary surveys indicate that the Northmead-North Parramatta bus priority treatments are helping bus operators keep to schedule in the morning and evening traffic peaks.

Works completed

Windsor Road/Church Street southbound

• Narrowing the central median in Windsor Road southbound at Baulkham Hills to create a third southbound general traffic lane from 125 metres north of Cook Street to the M2 on-ramp.
• Converting the existing T2 lane into a red bus lane from Churchill Drive, Winston Hills, to Fletcher Street, Northmead.
• Removal of the T2 lane between Fletcher Street and James Ruse Drive/Briens Road intersection to provide better transition for general traffic.
• Widening Windsor Road to extend the existing left turn between Campbell Street and James Ruse Drive.
• Creating a red bus lane in Windsor Road at the approach to the intersection with James Ruse Drive and Briens Road.
• Extending the existing right turn bay in Windsor Road at the intersection with Briens Road and James Ruse Drive.
• Replacing the existing T2 kerbside lane with a morning peak red bus lane in Church Street between the James Ruse Drive/Briens Road intersection and Barney Street.
• Providing a red a.m. bus lane between Seville Street and By Street.
• Providing a 24-hour red bus lane from Harold Street to Ross Street.

Church Street/Windsor Road northbound

• Providing a 24-hour red bus lane from Grose Street to the Albert Street/Pennant Hills Road intersection.
• Providing a dual right turn lane to help buses and general traffic turn right from Church Street into Pennant Hills Road.
• Creating a 24-hour red bus lane from Pennant Hills Road to North Rocks Road.
• Maintaining three general traffic lanes from Board Street to The Junction shopping precinct.