Back Creek

Transport for NSW have partnered with BMD and AECOM to form the Newell Highway Program Alliance.

The strategic partnership will deliver about 40 additional overtaking lanes in an estimated four years rather than the likely eight years it would take to fund and deliver this work using traditional procurement methods.

This innovative mode of delivery will result in a minimum of 60 kilometres of new overtaking lanes to improve safety, reduce travel times, allow more accurate travel planning and improve freight efficiency.

The new overtaking lanes are expected to provide around 33 minutes of travel time savings along the length of the Newell Highway from the Victorian to the Queensland border.

Construction of the northbound and southbound overtaking lanes on the Newell Highway at Back Creek, 19 kilometres north of West Wyalong, started on Wednesday 4 November 2021 and was completed in October 2022.

Now completed, road users travelling on the Newell Highway north of West Wyalong will experience increased overtaking opportunities to help improve journey reliability.

Other benefits of the project include:

• improved safety for all road users
• reduced travel times
• more accurate travel planning
• improved freight efficiency

• December 2022 Postcard

  Back Creek Overtaking Lanes North of West Wyalong.

• October 2021 project notification
  Work to start on new overtaking lanes on the Newell Highway near West Wyalong from 13 October 2021.