About Expressway

About the author and the site:

Hi, I'm Paul Rands, creator of the Expressway site, which was started on May 5, 2002.

The site is a hobby of mine, from an interest in roadly things when I was growing up as a child. Since being connected to the internet, I have found others with similar hobbies and the like and can say that the site was inspired by Bradley Torr's and Lachlan Simm's highway sites. I was also inspired by the lack of Australian sites available at the time.

These days there are a plethora of Aussie Road sites, official and unofficial.

Most of the photos are taken either by myself or by a few friends. Several photos are submissions from visitors to the web site.

Photos that have been taken by me are done using mostly digital photography, but some of the original site photos are scans from prints of 35mm film.

Cameras used are an Olympus Trip AF-20 35mm camera, Casio QV-R3 3MP digital camera, Apple iPhone 3G 2MP camera mobile phone, Sony Ericsson K-750i 2MP camera mobile phone, Sony DSC-S40 4.1MP digital camera, and Sony DSC-T50 7.2 MP digital camera. All shots taken within a vehicle have been taken from the passenger seat, except selected ones from November 2005 onwards, they are taken whilst in motion with the camera mounted to the dashboard of the car using a Clamperpod connected to a suction capped goose neck.

The Australian Road Sign Graphics section is designed to be a vault of current and past standard road signs. The images are reproductions based on old traffic sign catalogues, user handbooks and official Manual of Uniform Traffic Devices. Signs are also reproduced from photographs and from memory.

Where possible, open source software is used to design and maintain the site, which includes:

• GIMP (Photo Editing)
• Inkscape (Vector Image Creation - such as maps, signs graphics, shields and logos)
• Filezilla (FTP Program)
• KompoZer (WYSIWYG Web Site Authoring)

General Disclaimer:

While all efforts are made to ensure the accuracy, currency and standard of this web site, visitors are advised that the author cannot assume responsibility for any incorrect or misleading information resulting. For further information, visitors are advised to seek official local government web sites and/or state controlled road authorities and associations which can be found in the links section.

Copyright Information:

This site © Paul Rands.

Some portions © (copyright) by their respective & credited owners. Permission must be obtained before using any images from this site. For details, please email by clicking here.

Why is there ads on most of the pages?

The ads are placed within the site to generate revenue to pay for the site's hosting.

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