The Coffs Bypass + Transport
The Coffs Harbour bypass is the region's largest active infrastructure project: a 14-kilometre route with more than twenty bridges, open to traffic in late 2026 and fully complete in late 2027. We track it from the Transport for NSW project pages and the ministerial milestone releases, alongside the residual Pacific Highway works and the two council-owned airports at Coffs Harbour and Port Macquarie.
Costs and dates are confirmed on the project's own pages before we cite them, and where the reported figures differ we say so. Where a story turns on numbers it carries a methodology note, with tabular figures.
The average flight into or out of Coffs now carries 42 people. In 2018-19 it carried 69. Aircraft movements are up 3.3 per cent while passengers are down 36.9. Port Macquarie shows the same shape, and fell 16.3 per cent in one year.
The Coffs Bypass + Transport
Kempsey, Macksville and Urunga were three of them. On the programme's own figures Australia's largest road project cut fatal crashes by 70 per cent and took more than 30 minutes off Port Macquarie to Coffs Harbour. The Coffs bypass is the last piece.
24 August 2026
The Coffs Bypass + Transport
Coffs Harbour is the last major town on the Pacific Highway where the highway still runs through the middle of town. Work has begun on the final bridge of the $2.27 billion, 14-kilometre bypass; it opens to traffic in late 2026, taking up to 12,000 vehicles a day out of the CBD. What is being built, the numbers, and an honest read of the year ahead.
24 July 2026