Cahill Expressway

Cahill Expressway

New South Wales
Cahill Expressway; New South Wales
	Cahill Expressway and the Sydney CBD, as seen looking northwest from Art Gallery Road
	Northwest end Southeast end
Coordinates	33.860627°S 151.205760°E (Northwest end); 33.868727°S 151.218295°E (Southeast end);
General information
Type	Expressway
Length	2.1 km (1.3 mi)
Opened	1958
Gazetted	December 1964
Route number(s)	M1 (2013–present); (Harbour Tunnel–Woolloomooloo)
Former; route number	Metroad 1 (1993–2013); National Route 1 (1992–1993); (Harbour Tunnel–Woolloomooloo);
Major junctions
Northwest end	Bradfield Highway; Millers Point, Sydney
	Sydney Harbour Tunnel
Southeast end	Eastern Distributor Woolloomooloo, Sydney
Location(s)
Major suburbs / towns	The Rocks, Circular Quay
Highway system
	Highways in Australia; National Highway • Freeways in Australia; Highways in New South Wales;

Cahill Expressway is an urban freeway in Sydney and was the first freeway constructed in Australia, first opening to traffic in 1958. It links the southern foot of the Sydney Harbour Bridge, over an elevated roadway and through a series of sunken cuttings and tunnels between the Royal Botanic Garden and The Domain, to Woolloomooloo in Sydney's inner-eastern suburbs.

It is named after the then New South Wales Premier John Joseph Cahill, who also approved construction of the Sydney Opera House.

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