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North of Lane Cove River, the route continues as Ryde Road. It crosses the Lane Cove River via De Burghs Bridge. North of Blaxland Road, the route continues as gazetted in 1976 via Lane Cove Road. The new route gazetted in 1993 ends at the intersection of Devlin Street with Blaxland Road, in the suburb of Ryde. North of the river, the route continues northeast as Church Street, but at the intersection with Victoria Road it veers left to join Devlin Street.

Concord Road crosses Parramatta River via Ryde Bridge. The A3 designation continues on Concord Road. Homebush Bay Drive joins Concord Road in the suburb of Concord West. At the intersection with the M4 motorway in the suburb of Homebush West, the A3 becomes Homebush Bay Drive. Marlborough Road, which serves as an on-off ramp in the vicinity of the Flemington markets, and the associated loop road, is part of the route designation. Near the junction with the Hume Highway (Liverpool Road) in Strathfield South, the A3 continues via an overpass onto Centenary Drive. Crossing Punchbowl Road, which is the border between Wiley Park and Greenacre, the A3 continues via Wiley Avenue for a short distance before joining Roberts Road. From here, the A3 is called King Georges Road. The scheduled state route for the A3 begins in the south at the junction with the Princes Highway (A1), in the suburb of Blakehurst.

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The A3 route runs along a whole series of differently named roads. The name 'A3' is the route allocation for the route as a whole, not a road name. Much of the route becomes very congested in peak hour. Between Mona Vale and Terry Hills, most of the eastern section of Mona Vale Road is only 1 lane in each direction. Sections which are only two lanes in each direction remain, between Beverley Hills and South Hurstville, along Homebush Bay Drive, and between St Ives and Terry Hills. Most of the route has been progressively upgraded to three lanes in each direction (although parking is permitted in the kerbside lanes in some sections). It is one of only three road connections between the Northern Beaches region of Sydney and the rest of Sydney (the other two being the A38 (Warringah Road) and the A8. It is the most direct, although not necessarily the quickest, route across Sydney between the South Coast and the North Coast. It is a major connector between most of the major radial routes emanating from central Sydney, and a major link between the northern and southern parts of the Sydney tolled orbital freeway. The highest speed limit on the (A3) is 90В km/h (56В mph) on Mona Vale Road. The A3 runs from its intersection with the A8 at Mona Vale at the north end, to the southerly of its two intersections with A1, the Princes Highway, at Blakehurst the south end.

The A3 is a major metropolitan arterial route in Sydney. Mona Vale, Terrey Hills, Pymble, Macquarie Park, Ryde, Rhodes, Sydney Olympic Park, Chullora, Wiley Park, Beverly Hills, Hurstville, Blakehurst

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