Jack’s Blog

Travelling from Glenfield to Hornsby on Monday last was a nightmare.
The road signage is dreadful.
Yes there are a lot of large green signs and the locals would be reasonably OK as they are familiar with suburb names and approximate location. I was born and raised in Sydney but have not lived there for over 40 years.
At the beginning of the Cumberland Highway near Liverpool, I was glad that Hornsby was actually on one of the green signs.
However that was the last for many kilometres.
The next one sent me to a T junction where there was no reference to Hornsby. I took the turn to the right and came to Parramatta, so I felt I was on the right track. However the next Hornsby sign was a small green one at an intersection indicating a right turn at that intersection. It was just luck I saw it as I was going straight ahead at that point and had to turn around and backtrack.
I do understand that Sydney is a big city with numerous suburbs but Hornsby is the last major suburb before you get on the Freeway north and I would think that it would be an important destination for both interstate and overseas visitors who were going north.