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24-654: (Redirected from Kings Highway ) King's Highway or Kings Highway may refer to: Roads [ edit ] Australia [ edit ] Kings Highway (Australia) , connecting Queanbeyan to Batemans Bay Canada [ edit ] King's Highways , an alternative designation for the primary provincial highway system in Ontario King's Highway (French: Chemin du Roy ), part of Route 138 in Quebec United States [ edit ] Kings Highway (Brooklyn) ,

48-448: A Main Road, and a long historical identity as Kings Highway, the road still has no officially gazetted name. Transport for NSW has come to an informal agreement with councils along the route to signpost the entire route as Kings Highway. Kings Highway was signed National Route 52 across its entire length in 1974. With the conversion to the newer alphanumeric system in both states in 2013, this

72-667: A broad avenue passing through mostly commercial areas in the southern part of Brooklyn King's Highway (Charleston to Boston) , United States (Old) King's Highway ( Massachusetts Route 6A ), Cape Cod, MA Old King's Highway Historic District , Barnstable, MA Brewster Old King's Highway Historic District , Brewster, MA (Old) Kings Highway ( History of Darien, Connecticut ), Darien, CT Kings Highway ( Virginia State Route 3 ), central Virginia Kings Highway ( Virginia State Route 125 ), Suffolk, Virginia Kings Highway ( New Jersey Route 27 ), northern New Jersey Kings Highway (today County Route 13 (Rockland County, New York) ),

96-899: A day. There is an increase in traffic in the summer months. In 2003, approximately 3,000 vehicles a day were using the highway at Nelligen. From Braidwood (at the Shoalhaven River Bridge) there were about 4,200 cars travelling on the road. Out of Bungendore near Burbong, 5,600 cars were counted each day. Casualty crash rates on the Kings Highway are 85% higher than the NSW average and road fatalities are 8% higher. A 2005 NRMA road survey found: Partially limited-access                     Partially controlled-access                     roadway under construction Into

120-644: A major route through Valley Cottage, New York Kings Highway (today Farm to Market Road 989 ), in Bowie County, Texas Kings Highway (today Pennsylvania Route 143 ), in eastern Pennsylvania Kings Highway (today U.S. Route 61 ), the trail following the Mississippi River northward from New Orleans, Louisiana, through New Madrid, Sikeston, Cape Girardeau, Perryville, and St. Louis, Missouri Historical roads [ edit ] King's Highway (ancient) , an ancient trade route from Egypt to Syria mentioned in

144-431: A song by Kenny Wayne Shepherd album Trouble Is... See also [ edit ] King's Road (disambiguation) Royal Road (disambiguation) El Camino Real (disambiguation) Kingsway (disambiguation) Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title King's Highway . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change

168-655: Is an interstate highway located within the Australian Capital Territory and New South Wales , Australia. The highway connects Canberra with Batemans Bay on the South Coast . It is designated route B52. West to east, it starts at the interchange with Monaro Highway , Canberra Avenue and Ipswich Street on the northern border of Symonston in the Australian Capital Territory and continues in an easterly direction along Canberra Avenue, crosses over

192-504: Is often busy on weekends, especially during summer. The highway also experiences a high number of car crashes, on occasions averaging around one every three days, costing the local community around the highway several million dollars a year. The landscape is generally sheep country. The highway travels from the Southern Tablelands to the South Coast via Clyde Mountain . A small rock cave at "Pooh Bear's Corner" can be found near

216-555: The F and <F> ​ trains Kings Highway (BMT Sea Beach Line) at West 8th Street; serving the N and ​ W trains Church Street station (MBTA) , known as Kings Highway during planning Films and songs [ edit ] The King's Highway , a 1927 British film "Kings Highway," a song on Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers' album Into the Great Wide Open "King's Highway,"

240-625: The Roads Act of 1993 through the Parliament of New South Wales updated road classifications and the way they could be declared within New South Wales. Under this act, the highway today retains its declaration as Main Road 51, from the state border with Australian Capital Territory west of Queanbeyan to the intersection with Princes Highway in Batemans Bay. Despite its long-standing classification as

264-554: The Bible El Camino Real (California) (lit. "the King's Road"), a commemorative route Places [ edit ] Kings Highway Conservation District, Dallas , Texas, a neighborhood Railway stations [ edit ] New York City Subway stations: Kings Highway (BMT Brighton Line) at East 16th Street; serving the B and ​ Q trains Kings Highway (IND Culver Line) at McDonald Avenue; serving

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288-886: The Clyde River opened in 1895 and continued until the Nelligen Bridge opened on 12 December 1964. A replacement bridge built by Seymour Whyte opened in February 2023 with the original demolished. The passing of the Main Roads Act of 1924 through the Parliament of New South Wales provided for the declaration of Main Roads, roads partially funded by the State government through the Main Roads Board (later Transport for NSW ). Main Road No. 51

312-546: The Great Wide Open Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers recorded the album in Studio C at Rumbo Recorders , which charged a rate of $ 600 per day. The studio was equipped with a 24-input Trident 80 B console and an Otari MTR90 MkII two-inch, 24-track machine. " Learning to Fly ", the first single from the album, spent six weeks at No. 1 on Billboard ' s Mainstream Rock Tracks chart, tying " The Waiting " (1981) for

336-505: The album a one-star honorable mention, which indicates a "worthy effort consumers attuned to its overriding aesthetic or individual vision may well like". As a tongue-in-cheek reference to the "Hello, CD Listeners" interlude on compact disc releases of Full Moon Fever , on cassette tape releases of this album there is a brief spoken interlude at the end of Side One. In it, Petty instructs cassette listeners how to properly flip over their tape and prepare it for Side Two. Tom Petty and

360-526: The album features Petty's best lyrics and is like a cross between Full Moon Fever and Damn the Torpedoes (1979), and much better than Let Me Up (I've Had Enough) (1987), the most recent album credited to Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. Stephen Thomas Erlewine of AllMusic was less impressed, calling the album "pleasant", but not Petty at his best, and saying that it sounds too much like Full Moon Fever . In his Consumer Guide, Robert Christgau gave

384-492: The album for Entertainment Weekly , called it the closest thing to a "classic" album that Petty and the Heartbreakers had made in 15 years, and a return to the quality of their first two albums. He felt this was likely due to the involvement of Jeff Lynne , and commented that he felt the songs on Into the Great Wide Open are "obviously" better than those on Full Moon Fever , which had also been created in collaboration with Lynne. Rolling Stone critic Parke Puterbaugh said

408-467: The album's cover is the (slightly-cropped) painting Autumn Landscape (1921) by Czech artist Jan Matulka . The original is owned by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art . The album's first single, " Learning to Fly ", was released on June 17, 1991, two weeks prior to the album, and was a substantial hit for Petty. The second single, the title track , was released just over two months after

432-501: The album's release, and also became one of the band's biggest hits. Both songs were top 10 singles on various charts. The third single, "Out in the Cold", was a minor hit, not achieving the commercial success of the first two. Throughout 1992, four additional singles were released: "Makin' Some Noise", "All Or Nothin'", "Too Good To Be True", and "King's Highway". Into the Great Wide Open was warmly received by critics. Dave DiMartino, reviewing

456-463: The band's longest run atop the chart. The album's second single, "Out in the Cold", also topped the Mainstream Rock chart, though for two weeks. The music video for the title track stars Johnny Depp as "Eddie", who moves to Los Angeles as a teenager to seek rock stardom, along with Gabrielle Anwar , Faye Dunaway , Matt LeBlanc , Terence Trent D'Arby , and Chynna Phillips . Featured on

480-598: The border into New South Wales near Queanbeyan , passes through Queanbeyan itself, Carwoola , briefly crosses back into the Kowen district of ACT and then back into NSW heading south-east to Batemans Bay via Bungendore , Braidwood and Nelligen . Kings Highway links Monaro Highway in Canberra to Princes Highway in Batemans Bay, and provides access for residents of Canberra to the NSW South Coast and its beaches. The highway

504-487: The link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=King%27s_Highway&oldid=1216289601 " Categories : Disambiguation pages Road disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Pages using New York City Subway service templates Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Kings Highway (Australia) Kings Highway

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528-612: The top of the Clyde Mountain Pass. This was the location of a munitions store during the Second World War, that could be detonated to stop passage from the coast to the national capital inland. Dozens of soft toys are placed in the eucalyptus trees along the stretch of road that connects Queanbeyan and Bungendore. The road through the Clyde Mountain area was surveyed by Thomas Mitchell in 1855. A punt service across

552-637: Was declared along this road on 8 August 1928, from the intersection with Princes Highway at Batemans Bay, via Braidwood, Bungendore, and Queanbeyan to the border with the Federal Capital Territory (today the Australian Capital Territory); with the passing of the Main Roads (Amendment) Act of 1929 to provide for additional declarations of State Highways and Trunk Roads, this was amended to Trunk Road 51 on 8 April 1929. The passing of

576-583: Was replaced with route B52. In 2006 construction commenced on Headquarters Joint Operations Command in the Kowen district of the ACT between Bungendore and Queanbeyan . The facility opened in December 2008, and sections of the highway between the HQJOC turnoff and Queanbeyan have progressively been upgraded to cater for the increased traffic. In 2013 it was reported that the highway carries an average of 4,500 vehicles

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