Bruce Highway

Bruce Highway
Basic data
Operator:	Dept. of Transport and Main Roads
Start of the street:	Gateway Motorway M3 Gympie Arterial Road 2.5 miles from Bracken Ridge ( QLD ) ( 27 ° 18 ′  S , 153 ° 1 ′  E )
End of street:	Captain Cook Highway Cairns ( QLD ) ( 16 ° 55 ′  S , 145 ° 46 ′  E )
Overall length:	approx. 1,700 km
States :	Queensland
Bruce Highway

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The Bruce Highway is part of the Australian trunk road system. It is located in the state of Queensland on the east coast of the country and runs from the capital Brisbane in the south to Cairns in the tropical north. At Eumundi it has been developed as a motorway and is designated with the number M1. From there it is a two-lane trunk road. It is part of National Highway 1 which, mostly following the coastline, essentially circles the entire Australian continent.

The Bruce Highway was opened in the 1930s and was then a coastal road that connected all the important places along the Queensland coast. Today it is the main thoroughfare within Queensland. The total length of the Bruce Highway is approximately 1,700 kilometers. However, the length is constantly changing due to construction work in the form of route relocations and new bypasses. The width varies between a two-lane road in the rural areas of northern Queensland and a six-lane road in the suburbs of Brisbane and on the bypasses of other major towns. The highway is now paved along its entire length.

The highest point on the highway is 192 meters, the lowest is 2 meters.

Important landscapes and places along the Bruce Highway from south to north are: Brisbane, Glass House Mountains , Sunshine Coast , Maryborough , Bundaberg , Rockhampton , Mackay , Airlie Beach , Townsville , Innisfail , Cairns .

course

literature

• Steve Parish: Australian Touring Atlas. Steve Parish Publishing, Archerfield QLD 2007, ISBN 978-1-74193-232-4 . Pp. 5, 9, 10, 11, 13, 14.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ maps.bonzle.com - Bruce Highway . Retrieved April 19, 2012.