Community Notices

Thurgoona Drive Interchange Upgrade

The petition of residents of Thurgoona–Wirlinga and the Albury Electorate brings to the attention of the House that Thurgoona–Wirlinga is one of NSW’s fastest-growing communities. Its population has almost doubled in the past decade, it has been identified as a national migration hotspot in the Regional Movers Index, and Albury City Council has designated it the city’s principal growth corridor for the next 30 years. 

The Thurgoona Drive Interchange on the Hume Motorway is the main route connecting Thurgoona–Wirlinga residents to Albury’s commerce, schools, university, hospital, jobs, shopping, recreation, and transport facilities. Because many key services are not located within Thurgoona–Wirlinga, residents must cross the motorway via this interchange daily.

The interchange is already regularly congested, particularly during morning and afternoon peaks. This increases the risk of accidents, delays travel, and forces overflow traffic onto local streets not designed for high volumes. These conditions are placing increasing strain on the internal road network and will worsen as the community continues to grow. There is also no separate active-transport crossing at the interchange, leaving pedestrians, cyclists, and mobility device users, including school students and seniors, without a safe shared path across the motorway. A project to upgrade the interchange was announced in 2023. 

The undersigned petitioners therefore ask the Legislative Assembly to call on the New South Wales Government to fast-track the release of the Thurgoona Drive Interchange upgrade plans and provide full funding in the 2026–27 State Budget so construction can proceed as a priority to improve safety and efficiency for the community.

There is an e-petition as well, that can be shared through your networks. This is perhaps easier. Please share this as widely as possible as we need thousands of signatures to make it count. 

https://www.parliament.nsw.gov.au/la/pages/epetition-details.aspx?q=vfxNrGccTatSNlL1sYmmSA.

Sally Hendy, Secretary of Thurgoona Wirlinga Community Action Group