Newell Highway Program Alliance

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Project overview

The Newell Highway Program Alliance has delivered 38 additional overtaking lanes and various safety upgrades along the Newell Highway, within four years, from 2019 to 2023.

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Latest news

November 2023 – Life in the faster lane with 38 new overtaking lanes now open on the Newell Highway

The completion of 38 new overtaking lanes along the full length of the Newell Highway will deliver faster, safer, and more reliable journeys for residents, tourists and freight operators travelling in regional NSW.

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October 2023 - Gullifers Road overtaking lanes now complete

The Newell Highway Program Alliance have completed a new northbound and southbound overtaking lanes and road safety improvement works about 20 kilometres south of Forbes. 

Read more on the Gullifers page.

August 2023 – Daroobalgie overtaking lane now complete

The Newell Highway Program Alliance has completed a new southbound overtaking lane at Daroobalgie, about two kilometres north of Forbes.

Read more on the Daroobalgie page.

Project information

Background

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

The strategic partnership delivered 38 additional overtaking lanes in four years from 2019 to 2023, 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 the construction of approximately 60 kilometres of new overtaking lanes to improve safety, reduce travel times, allow more accurate travel planning and improve freight productivity.

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 border to the Queensland border.

The Australian Government has committed $60 million towards the overtaking lanes, under the Infrastructure Investment Program.

The work includes widening the shoulders and centreline, and installing audio-tactile linemarking on the edges and centre of the road.

Program Alliance projects

Project documents

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Community notifications

Project notifications

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Media releases

  • 10 November 2023
    Life in the faster lane with 38 new overtaking lanes now open on the Newell Highway
  • 8 November 2023
    New overtaking lanes and a surface upgrade of the Newell to counteract the challenging Forbes floodplain
  • 10 August 2023
    Good as Newell: Overtaking lane now open north of Forbes.
  • 29 May 2023
    New overtaking lane to reduce travel times on Newell Highway through the Riverina.
  • 29 March 2022

    Regional Jobs the Focus as Work Starts on New Overtaking Lane at Mirrool.

  • 10 September 2021
    Local businesses to help build Newell Highway overtaking lanes.

  • 20 July 2021
    Funding boost delivers wider, safer Newell Highway.

  • 13 May 2021
    Call out for local businesses to deliver next stage of Newell transformation.

  • 22 March 2021
    More Newell Highway overtaking lanes opened at Coobang and Redbank.

  • 26 November 2020
    Tocumwal locals deliver latest overtaking lane on Newell Highway.

  • 26 November 2020
    Tocumwal locals deliver latest overtaking lane on Newell Highway.

  • 16 October 2020
    Locals to help build Newell Highway overtaking lanes.

  • 28 September 2020
    Pilliga overtaking lanes support 133 jobs.

  • 8 July 2020
    Overtaking lane doubles to cut travel time.

  • 5 June 2020
    Locals to help build Newell overtaking lanes.

  • 21 May 2020
    Technology leads Newell Highway project.

  • 19 May 2020
    Newell Highway overtaking lanes on a fast track.

  • 28 April 2020
    Help us build overtaking lanes on the Newell Highway.

  • 21 April 2020
    Highway overtaking lanes in Telescope's sight.

  • 5 March 2020
    Overtaking lanes at Bundaburrah now open.

  • 27 February 2020
    Finley a fine place for Newell overtaking lane.

  • 9 December 2019
    Newell Highway overtaking lanes power ahead.

  • 6 December 2019
    Telescope, Peak Hill, next to benefit from Newell works.

  • 6 December 2019
    Newell Highway overtaking lanes info sessions.

  • 7 November 2019
    Newell Highway overtaking lanes for Jerilderie.

  • 30 October 2019
    Get involved in Newell overtaking lanes.

  • 26 August 2019
    Bundaburrah overtaking lanes take off.

  • 27 June 2019
    Newell overtaking lanes at Marthaguy.

  • 30 January 2019
    Additional overtaking lanes make overtaking on Newell Highway safer.

Contact us

For further information about this project, please contact:

Phone: 1800 577 295

Email: info@newellnhpa.nsw.gov.au