Pacific Highway Newcastle Freeway

Pacific Highway Newcastle Freeway - Sound files

Summary

Selected interview excerpts from the compilation cassette tape.

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Whole collection (as one file - MP3)

File	Title	Size	Pages
multimedia	CD1 and CD2	49.4Mb

CDs - full copy (mp3)

File	Title	Size	Pages
multimedia	Full version of CD1	25.6Mb
multimedia	Full version of CD2	23.8Mb

Part 1: Introduction/Recollections of the Pacific Highway and travel conditions

File	Title	Size	Pages
multimedia	MP3	3.33Mb
multimedia	Real Media	386Kb

Part 2: Observations of a new field assistant/work conditions/planning for a major deviation

File	Title	Size	Pages
multimedia	MP3	2.75Mb
multimedia	Real Media	331Kb

Part 3: Road location & surveying skills/road design procedures and equipment/aerial photography & photogrammetry/computerisation of road design/Geographic information systems

File	Title	Size	Pages
multimedia	MP3
multimedia	Real Media	489Kb

Part 4: Need for improvements - climbing lanes & town bypasses/Life in the work camps

File	Title	Size	Pages
multimedia	MP3	3.29Mb
multimedia	Real Media	424Kb

Part 5: Manual work/Construction equipment/Earthworks/Mechanisation of construction/materials - gravels, bitumen and concrete

File	Title	Size	Pages
multimedia	MP3	2.99Mb
multimedia	Real Media	388Kb

Part 6: Increasing congestion north of Sydney/planning for Sydney-Newcastle Freeway/earthworks & construction challenges

File	Title	Size	Pages
multimedia	MP3	6.35Mb
multimedia	Real Media	795Kb

Part 7: Route of Sydney-Newcastle Freeway/the official opening/environmental constraints

File	Title	Size	Pages
multimedia	MP3	3.19Mb
multimedia	Real Media	370Kb

Part 8: Floods/ferries/major bridges/explosives

File	Title	Size	Pages
multimedia	MP3	7.22Mb
multimedia	Real Media	933Kb

Part 9: Road vs rail freight/growth in heavy vehicle usage/bus operation

File	Title	Size	Pages
multimedia	MP3
multimedia	Real Media	420Kb

Part 10: Road safety/Road alignment standards/Enforcement/Bus accidents/Speed limits

File	Title	Size	Pages
multimedia	MP3	5.21Mb
multimedia	Real Media	5.18Mb

Part 11: Guard rails/Road markings & signage/Environmental & heritage factors

File	Title	Size	Pages
multimedia	MP3	3.33Mb
multimedia	Real Media	442Kb

Part 12: Community relations & property acquisition/Blackspots/Benefits of the Highway/Remaining problems and unresolved issues

File	Title	Size	Pages
multimedia	MP3	4.75Mb
multimedia	Real Media	621Kb