Pacific Highway, Hornsby

Transport for NSW has completed the bus improvements on the Pacific Highway, Hornsby between Edgeworth David Avenue and Leonard Street, Hornsby in late April.

Pacific Highway, Hornsby south of Edgeworth David Avenue - before and after the upgrades

View or download the May 2021 work completed notification (PDF, 451Kb).

The Pacific Highway is an important and busy bus corridor. Currently, public transport users can experience heavy congestion, slow travel times and delays on their journey. And this is only going to get worse, as the number of customers using these routes is expected to increase due to future public transport growth.

On the Pacific Highway near Edgeworth David Avenue in Hornsby, over 5000 bus customers travel on 600 bus services on eight different bus routes each week. In peak periods there are 12 buses per hour, or one bus every five minutes, running on this section of the Pacific Highway.

Buses on these routes carry commuters, students, local residents and visitors to the area. The bus stop (ID 2077157) on the Pacific Highway just south of Edgeworth David Avenue connects visitors to the Westfield Hornsby shopping centre and students, staff and carers to Hornsby Girls High School, as well as servicing the local community’s public transport needs.

We are proposing to:

• extend the bus only lane on the Pacific Highway 120 metres south of the Edgeworth David Avenue intersection
• install new kerbside bus only lane markings
• carry out road resurfacing, line marking and signage changes
• remove an existing raise concrete traffic island located 35 metres south of Edgeworth David Avenue intersection
• move the bus stop ID 2077157 about 35 metres to the end of the extended bus only lane
• install tactile ground surface indicators at and around the bus stop to let people who are vision impaired to know where to wait for a bus and where a bus will stop.

Our proposal will create enough space for two buses to stop south of the Pacific Highway and Edgeworth David Avenue intersection. This will stop buses queuing across the intersection and in general traffic lanes and will improve traffic flow and safety for all road users.

We have developed this proposal in consultation with Hornsby Shire Council and bus operators CDC Hills Bus and Transdev NSW.

We listened to what the community said during consultation and while also taking into consideration the project’s objectives, we have made some changes to our proposal.

We will extend the bus only lane:

• 120 metres south
• about 65 metres of this extension will be a 24-hour bus only lane
• about 55 metres will only operate during peak periods. Weekdays between 6am and 10am and between 3pm and 7pm and on weekends and public holidays between 7am and 2pm.

We will move the bus stop (ID 2077157) 35 metres south of its current location as previously proposed.

We will upgrade the bus stop (ID 2077157) as previously proposed to meet current standards and improve accessibility for people with disabilities.

During the consultation period we were requested to install a bus shelter. This is out of the scope of Transport’s project and we have passed on this feedback to Hornsby Shire Council who manage the bus shelters in the area.

The project would:

• improve the reliability of bus services and reduce travel time
• improve traffic flow through the intersection
• ease congestion and improve travel times for all road users during peak periods
• improve safety at the intersection of the Pacific Highway and Edgeworth David Avenue
• cater for future growth in bus services
• improve accessibility of the bus stop for all bus customers.

Transport for NSW has completed the bus improvements on the Pacific Highway, Hornsby between Edgeworth David Avenue and Leonard Street. 

We would like to thank the community for their patience during this important work.

• Work completion notification - May 2021

  Bus improvements on the Pacific Highway, Hornsby between Edgeworth David Avenue and Leonard Street.

• Continuing work notification - February 2021

  Bus improvements on the Pacific Highway, Hornsby between Edgeworth David Avenue and Leonard Street.

• Start of work notification - January 2021

  Bus improvements on the Pacific Highway, Hornsby between Edgeworth David Avenue and Leonard Street.

• Community Consultation Report - November 2020

  Bus improvements on the Pacific Highway, Hornsby between Edgeworth David Avenue and Leonard Street.

• Close of consultation letter - November 2020

  Bus improvements on the Pacific Highway, Hornsby between Edgeworth David Avenue and Leonard Street.

• May 2020 follow-up community update

  Bus improvements on the Pacific Highway, Hornsby between Edgeworth David Avenue and Leonard Street.

• May 2020 community update

  Bus improvements on the Pacific Highway, Hornsby between Edgeworth David Avenue and Leonard Street.