Prospect of stickers on cars to allow border residents to be waved through NSW-Victorian border checkpoints not ruled out

NSW police Assistant Commissioner Scott Whyte, who is overseeing the operation to monitor crossings, was asked about that possibility by The Border Mail on Thursday.

"I don't think from a NSW perspective we're ruling anything out," Mr Whyte said.

"I think that we'll continue to evolve and we'll get better in every area."

Former Victorian fruit fly inspection supervisor Norm Jones told The Border Mail earlier in the week that his advice to authorities would be to adopt a system where locals had car stickers on their windscreens that would allow them to travel through checkpoints without stopping as happened when he had his previous role.

Permits being issued by Service NSW last for 14 days and NSW police commissioner Mick Fuller said on Thursday he expected the border controls to be in place for at least six weeks.

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Traffic flow along the Lincoln Causeway into Albury was much quicker on Thursday, with both northbound lanes open to reduce the congestion and delays that occurred on Wednesday when one was operating.

Mr Whyte praised the sentiment shown by the bulk of motorists.

"I worked the line down here this morning and the attitude of the general public has been fantastic, they've really embraced it as a community," he said.

Asked about the closure of bridges at Towong and Tintaldra in the Upper Murray, Mr Whyte defended the approach taken.

"The original planning was done in line with the local emergency committee, so the council and all the local stakeholders were on that," he said.

"They were risk assessed, we looked at our traffic management plans, over the first 24 hours we continually reviewed everything ... obviously we determined with that committee that we needed to open a couple (Tooleybuc and Barmah) that we hadn't opened and we'll continually evolve and look at everything over a 24-hour basis.

"Where we need to we will open hard closures."

Member for Albury Justin Clancy, who joined the two policemen at a media conference on Thursday, conceded the rollout of the border shutdown had been tough.

"I am thankful to my community for their support, for their patience over what has been a challenging 72 hours, but also my thanks to the ADF and NSW police," Mr Clancy said.

Army Brigadier Mick Garraway said there were 375 soldiers, including 75 helping with the Albury border crossing, who would be part of the frontier operation until the weekend.