Australia Day Closures and Parking Restrictions

On Australia Day, road closures will be in place in the city from as early as 4.00am in The Rocks, Millers Point and Barangaroo for morning events. Most roads in these areas will reopen by 11.00am, but some will remain closed until midnight for the evening events around the harbour. 

Below is an interactive map of all road closures throughout the city. Just hover over the particular road you want information on and times of closures will appear.

https://www.australiaday.com.au/plan-your-trip/road-closures/
 

SPECIAL EVENT CLEARWAYS 


3AM – 10AM
Hickson Rd (Napoleon St to Towns Pl)
 
3AM – 11AM
Hickson Rd (Towns Pl to Pottinger St round-a-bout)
 
3AM – Midnight
Hickson Rd to George St (from Pottinger St round-a-bout)

 
ROAD CLOSURES 


7AM – 10AM
Hickson Rd (Napoleon St to Towns Pl)

7AM – 11AM
Hickson Rd
 (Towns Pl to Pottinger St round-a-bout)
Pottinger Street access will be via Windmill Street

7AM – Midnight
Hickson Rd to George St (from Pottinger St round-a-bout)
Hickson Rd (George St to Lower Fort St)
 
4AM – Midnight
George St (Essex St to Hickson Rd)
 

Click here to view official notice and road map.
 

IMPORTANT: NO ACCESS TO OR FROM CAR PARKS DURING ROAD CLOSURE TIME

 Clearways are strict no-parking zones, and apply even to local residents and businesses with parking permits and RMS Mobility Scheme permit holders.
 

Real-time information

For real-time information about road closures and current traffic conditions:

• visit livetraffic.com
• follow @LiveTrafficSyd on Twitter
• download a real-time traffic app from the App Store or Google Play.

Work is continuing inside the Barangaroo Station, where current activities include concreting, installing steel mesh and waterproofing the station walls. With under-harbour tunnelling recommencing, our support facilities such as the treatment plant by the foreshore and grout plant are back in operation. You may also notice large concrete segments being delivered to the acoustic shed on Hickson Road, which are lowered underground and used to line the tunnel.

As a reminder, I have attached a copy of the January 2020 monthly update which has more information about activities at the Barangaroo Station site this month.

Out-of-hours work next week

Work will continue 24/7 next week at the northern end of the Barangaroo Station site, where concrete is being delivered to build the ceiling of the underground crossover cavern. There will also be some work at the southern end of the site, as we continue to disassemble and clean tunnel boring machine Nancy. This work is not expected to be noisy.

Community enquiries

If you have any questions, please contact our team on 1800 171 386 or at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. Alternatively, you can visit the Sydney Metro website to view all current and past construction updates.

Have a good weekend.

Kind regards
Mark
Community Place Manager | Barangaroo & Blues Point
John Holland CPB Ghella (JHCPBG)