Gateway Motorway

Gateway Motorway
Basic data
Operator:	Queensland Motorways
Start of the street:	Bruce Highway; Bald Hills ( QLD ); ( 27 ° 18 ′ S , 153 ° 1 ′ E )
End of street:	M2 / Logan Motorway Drewvale ( Brisbane ) ( QLD ) ( 27 ° 39 ′ S , 153 ° 4 ′ E ) ; ;
Overall length:	48 km
States :	Queensland

Map with all coordinates: OSM | WikiMap

The Gateway Motorway is an urban freeway in Brisbane in the southeast of the Australian state of Queensland . The Sir Leo Hielscher Bridges (formerly: Gateway Bridge ) are operated by Queensland Motorways .

The motorway runs around Brisbane in the east, creating a fast connection from the Gold Coast to the Sunshine Coast . It begins on Logan Motorway (M2) in Drewvale in the south of the city and ends at the freeway triangle in Bald Hills in the north of the city, where it joins the Pacific Highway (NA1) and Gympie Arterial Road . At the interchange in Eight Mile Plains , its earlier end (until 1997), it meets the Pacific Motorway (M1) and the South East Freeway (M3) and changes its name from M2 to M1. The Sir Leo Hielscher Bridges over the Brisbane River at Eagle Farm are part of this highway. The road provides access to the port and airport of Brisbane.

expansion

Previously called the Gateway Motorway Gateway Arterial Road because it was not classified as a freeway and had three large roundabouts north of the Brisbane River. In 1987 the Queensland government upgraded the road to the freeway to handle the heavy traffic. In 1990 the bridges over East-West Arterial Road and the newly built Airport Drive in Hendra were built . Since 1991 the highway between Eight Mile Plains and Bracken Ridge has been expanded to four lanes. In early 1996, a further expansion stage was achieved with the establishment of four lanes between Bracken Ridge and Bald Hills .

In 1995, the construction of the southern connection to the Logan Motorway began, so that the Southern Brisbane Bypass was created. The street opened on May 13, 1997.

On February 17, 2005, the Minister of Transportation and Major Roads announced an AU $ 1.6 billion project to upgrade the Gateway Motorway, which would include a new Gateway Bridge alongside the old one, a road relocation between Eagle Farm and Nudgee, and improvements south of the Provided by the river. Work started in early 2007.

The new Gateway Bridge (both spines were renamed 'Sir Leo Hielscher Bridges') was opened in four-lane design on May 24, 2010. The two remaining lanes were put into operation on August 15, 2010. The adaptation of the old bridge to the new one was completed on November 28, 2010. To the north of the bridges, the motorway now runs further east and another feeder road, Moreton Drive , was created as an entrance to the airport's inland terminal. The new route opened on July 19, 2009 and Moreton Drive on December 3, 2009.

The street on the old route of the Gateway Motorway was renamed Southern Cross Way in November 2010 and the toll booths were replaced by electronic toll collectors.

South of the bridges, the highway was widened to 9 lanes to the Wynnum Road exit and 8 lanes to the Old Cleveland Road exit . From there it is six lanes to the confluence with Pacific Motorway. The expansion between Lyton Road and Mount Gravatt Capalaba Road was completed on January 28, 2010, and that between Mount Gravatt Capalaba Road and the Pacific Motorway on July 30, 2011.

In the first stage of expansion, the motorway did not have a number. Since March 1994 it has been called Metroroad 1 and since 2005 it has been called M1 , or M2 .

connections

Gateway Motorway
North exits	Exit no. (Distance from the border to NSW)	Exit to the south
Confluence with Gympie Arterial Road further than Bruce Highway to Caboolture , Sunshine Coast , Cairns	127	Start of the Gateway Motorway from the Bruce Highway
Bracken Ridge, on Bracken Ridge Road	123	Bracken Ridge, Brighton, Sandgate, Bracken Ridge Road
Brighton, Redcliffe diversion to Deagon	122	no exit
Deagon, Sandgate Depot Road	120	no exit
Boondall, Brisbane Entertainment Center, Boondall Wetlands Bicentennial Road	117	Boondall, Brisbane Entertainment Center, Boondall Wetlands Bicentennial Road
Nudgee, Nudgee Beach, Gateway Travel Center Nudgee Road	112	Nudgee, Nudgee Beach Nudgee Road
no exit	110	Eagle Farm, Brisbane City Southern Cross Way
Brisbane Moreton Drive Airport	108	Brisbane Moreton Drive Airport
Eagle Farm, Hamilton Kingsford Smith Drive	106	no exit
Brisbane City Southern Cross Way	105	no exit
Sir Leo Hielscher Bridges (paying)
Murarrie, Lytton, Brisbane Harbor Motorway to Brisbane Harbor	103	Murarrie, Lytton Lytton Road
no exit	102	Brisbane Port Highway to Brisbane Port
Tingalpa, Cannon Hill, Wynnum, Manly Wynnum Road	100	Tingalpa, Cannon Hill, Wynnum, Manly Wynnum Road
Carindale, Sleeman Sports Complex, Capalaba, Cleveland Old Cleveland Road	97	Carindale, Sleeman Sports Complex, Capalaba, Cleveland Old Cleveland Road
Mackenzie, Wishart, Capalaba, Mount Gravatt Mount Gravatt - Capalaba Road	92	Mackenzie, Wishart, Capalaba, Mount Gravatt Mount Gravatt - Capalaba Road
Eight Mile Plains, Eight Mile Plains Bus Terminal, Sunnybank Miles Platting Road	88	Eight Mile Plains, Eight Mile Plains Bus Terminal, Sunnybank Miles Platting Road
no exit	87	Logan, Logan Central Pacific Motorway
End start	Exit No. (Distance from M1 / M2 Junction , Eight Mile Plains)	End start
Underwood, Brisbane City Logan Road	1	Underwood, Brisbane City Logan Road
charges apply
no exit	4th	Kuraby, Runcorn Compton Road
no exit	9	Logan, Gold Coast Logan Motorway
Beginning of the Gateway Motorway from the Logan Motorway	9	Confluence with Logan Motorway further than Logan Motorway to Ipswich , Toowoomba