Southern Outlet, Hobart facts for kids

Quick facts for kids Southern Outlet Tasmania
The Southern Outlet at Mount Nelson
General information
Type	Highway
Length	13 km (8.1 mi)
Opened	1969
Route number(s)	A6
Major junctions
North end	Davey Street / Macquarie Street Hobart, Tasmania
	Huon Highway for full list see Exits
South end	Channel Highway Kingston, Tasmania
Location(s)
Region	Hobart
Major suburbs	Mount Nelson
Highway system
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The Southern Outlet is a major highway in the Tasmanian capital of Hobart and acts as one of the city's 3 major radial highways, connecting traffic from the Hobart city centre with commuters from the southern suburbs as well as intrastate traffic from the south of the state. It is one of the busier commuter highways in Hobart, handling in excess of 31,000 traffic movements each day.

Route

The Southern Outlet starts at an intersection with the Davey/Macquarie couplet in Hobart, with a maximum speed limit of 80 km/h. The highway bypasses South Hobart and heads south into the mountainous terrain of Mount Nelson. Except for the Davey/Macquarie intersection the highway is fully grade separated and travels through bushland for the majority of its length. The northbound and southbound lanes are separated between Tolmans Hill overpass through to the Firthside overpass because of the mountainous landscape, allowing a higher maximum speed limit of 100 km/h. The Highway ends in Kingston, at the Kingston Interchange.

History

The Hobart Transportation Study 1965 indicated the need for a transport corridor from Hobart to Kingston. The Southern Outlet was opened in 1969 as a super-2 expressway and went from Kingston to meet up with the old Huon Highway at Grove. It opened as a fully dual-carriage way highway in 1990

Exits

LGA	Location	km	mi	Destinations	Notes
Hobart	South Hobart	0.0– 0.1	0.0– 0.062	Davey Street & Macquarie Street one-way couplet (A6) northeast / Davey Street (B64) southwest / Macquarie Street southwest – Hobart, South Hobart	Northern terminus at Macquarie Street (northbound lanes); southbound lanes begin from Davey Street
	Tolmans Hill – Dynnyrne boundary	2.7	1.7	Olinda Grove (C643) – Mount Nelson, Tolmans Hill
Kingborough	Kingston	4.6	2.9	Proctors Road	No Through Road
		6.3	3.9	Proctors Road – Kingston	Southbound exit and entrance
		7.6	4.7	Shaw Road – Kingston	Northbound exit and entrance
		8.8	5.5	Groningen Road – no exit	Northbound entrance only
		9.3	5.8	Browns Road – Firthside	Southbound exit only
		9.3– 9.6	5.8– 6.0	Huon Highway (A6) / Kingston Bypass (B68) – Kingston, Huonville, Blackmans Bay, Kettering	Southern terminus: continues as Kingston Bypass; no access to Huon Highway from Kingston Bypass
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi