Hammer wrote:What's not so great is the drive back home. In particular the bumper-to-bumper traffic from Katoomba to Lawson. What usually takes about 10-15mins to cover, took over an hour to do.
It took me an extra hour to get home. Not happy Jan.
Hehe - thats a trap for young players

Having spent a lot of time in Katoomba on weekends over the past ten years, I know not to use the highway on a Sunday afternoon/evening to get back to Sydney. There is a back road that runs along the other side of the railway line between just before Wentworth Falls and Lawson. It is a little narrow and bumpy in places, but there is not a lot of traffic that uses it, and even when there is a bit of traffic it moves freely all the way. You still hit some traffic when you join the highway again at Lawson, but this is to get though Hazelbrook, and once you are through there, the traffic starts moving again. There are a few spots on this back road where you can see the highway and you just laugh at all the people sitting in the gridlock
Link to Google mapHope this helps for the future
Ian