General Holmes Drive

General Holmes Drive

New South Wales
General Holmes Drive; New South Wales
	General Holmes Drive, looking south-west from the Sydney Airport overpass
	Northeast end Southwest end
Coordinates	33.933851°S 151.192090°E (Northeast end); 33.958184°S 151.157768°E (Southwest end);
General information
Type	Motorway
Length	5.0 km (3.1 mi)
Gazetted	August 1928
Route number(s)	M1 (2013–present); (Botany–Kyeemagh); A1 (2013–present); (Kyeemagh–Brighton-Le-Sands);
Former; route number	Metroad 1 (1993–2013); (Botany–Brighton-Le-Sands); National Route 1 (1992–1993); (Botany–Brighton-Le-Sands); State Route 64 (1974–1992); (Botany–Brighton-Le-Sands);
Major junctions
Northeast end	Joyce Drive; Mascot, Sydney
	Southern Cross Drive; M5 East Motorway;
Southwest end	The Grand Parade; Brighton-Le-Sands, Sydney
Location(s)
Major suburbs	Sydney Airport
Highway system
	Highways in Australia; National Highway • Freeways in Australia; Highways in New South Wales;

General Holmes Drive is a 5-kilometre (3.1 mi) major divided road located in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. The road forms part of the M1, the A1, the Sydney Orbital Network, and the Australian Highway 1 network. Initially built in 1919 as a two-lane road and duplicated in 1951, the road partially circumnavigates Sydney Airport with its north-eastern terminus in Mascot, heading west and then south and then south-west, with its south-western terminus with The Grand Parade in Brighton-Le-Sands.

The road forms major links with the Southern Cross Drive and the M5 East, both part of the Sydney Orbital Network.

The road is named in honour of William Holmes, a distinguished Australian general who died in action during World War I.

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