{"id":39234,"date":"2026-06-01T06:12:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-31T20:12:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=39234"},"modified":"2026-06-01T06:12:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T20:12:12","slug":"shovels-in-the-ground-on-35-million-hillsborough-road-upgrade-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2026\/06\/01\/shovels-in-the-ground-on-35-million-hillsborough-road-upgrade-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Shovels in the ground on $35 million Hillsborough Road upgrade"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Major construction is now underway on stage one of the Hillsborough Road upgrade,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.transport.nsw.gov.au\/system\/files\/media\/documents\/2026\/YASMIN%20CATLEY%20AND%20JENNY%20AITCHISON%20-%20MEDIA%20RELEASE%20-%20SHOVELS%20IN%20THE%20GROUND%20ON%20%2435%20MILLION%20HILLSBOROUGH%20ROAD%20UPGRADE%20-%20FRIDAY%2C%2029%20MAY%202026.pdf\">marking the beginning of a major overhaul of one of Lake Macquarie\u2019s busiest transport corridors.\u00a0 (PDF, 329.89 KB)<\/a><br>For the 36,000 motorists who travel this corridor each day, the Hillsborough Road upgrade will transform how people move through Lake Macquarie. The corridor is known for heavy congestion during peak periods, and difficult turning movements making it challenging for motorists to safely merge from side streets.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Major construction is now underway on stage one of the Hillsborough Road upgrade,\u00a0marking the beginning of a major overhaul of one of Lake Macquarie\u2019s busiest transport corridors.\u00a0 (PDF, 329.89 KB)For the 36,000 motorists who travel this corridor each day, the Hillsborough Road upgrade will transform how people move through Lake Macquarie. The corridor is known &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2026\/06\/01\/shovels-in-the-ground-on-35-million-hillsborough-road-upgrade-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Shovels in the ground on $35 million Hillsborough Road upgrade&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newcastle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39234"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39235,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39234\/revisions\/39235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}