Pacific Motorway

Pacific Motorway
Basic data
Operator:	Dept. of Transport and Main Roads
Start of the street:	M3 Inner City Bypass; Downtown Brisbane ( QLD ); ( 27 ° 28 ′ S , 153 ° 1 ′ E )
End of street:	Pacific Highway; Tweed Heads ( NSW ); ( 28 ° 11 ′ S , 153 ° 31 ′ E )
Overall length:	100 km
States :	Queensland / New South Wales
	Six-lane section of the Pacific Motorway near Woolloongabba

Map with all coordinates: OSM | WikiMap

The Pacific Motorway is a freeway in the southeast of the Australian state of Queensland . It connects the Inner City Bypass (M3) in downtown ( Brisbane ) with the Pacific Highway (R1) northwest of Tweed Heads on the Gold Coast in the area of the border with New South Wales .

The route section in the city of Brisbane was initially called the Riverside Expressway . The first part of this freeway, which opened in Brisbane in 1973, was formerly called the South East Freeway . The South East Freeway was given the number F3, but in 1994 that name and numbering were shelved. Since then, this section has also been part of the Pacific Motorway and is known as the M3.

The freeway has eight lanes from the Logan Motorway (QM6) to the Smith Street Motorway (S10) and the speed is limited there to 110 km / h. On the other sections of the route, it has four or six lanes and the speed limit is 100 km / h. The Pacific Motorway runs through the vital Gold Coast vacation region, where most of the road traffic from Brisbane flows. In the years 1990–1998, AU $ 2 billion were spent on this motorway, including its expansion.

In March 2006, the Queensland government presented a plan for major changes to the stretch between Springwood and Daisy Hill . This mainly concerned the expansion of the entrances and exits and was intended to solve the traffic problems on the access roads. This planning led to public protests, mainly from people whose properties and houses were to be expropriated for the renovation. Planning for the section between Daisy Hill and Loganholme began in August 2007.

There are also plans to gradually expand the four-lane section from Nerang to Tugun to six lanes.

The Tugun Bypass was completed in 2008. It has been expanded to four lanes and will not be expanded to six lanes until 2025.

The freeway opens up many Gold Coast tourist attractions such as Warner Bros. Movie World , Wet'n'Wild Water World and Dreamworld ,

Service centers

When the Pacific Motorway was expanded in September 2000, it was the first highway in Queensland to be equipped with service centers. There are two of them, one in Stapylton for southbound traffic and one in Coomera for northbound traffic. There are BP gas stations , McDonald’s and other chain restaurants , picnic areas and shops. The roofs are provided with solar panels to power the facilities.

Speed traps

There is a permanently installed speed camera for traffic heading north in Tarragindi and one in Loganholme shortly after the connection to the Logan Motorway.

Exits and motorway triangles

Pacific Motorway
North exits	Exit no.	Exit to the south
The end of Motorway Street continues as Coronation Drive to Indooroopilly	-	Northern Suburbs, Sunshine Coast Hale Street / Inner City Bypass (ICB)
Northern Suburbs, Sunshine Coast Hale Street / Inner City Bypass (ICB)	-
no exit	-	Skew Street
Herschel Street	-	South traffic on North Quay
Turbot Street	-	Start of the Motorway
Elizabeth Street	-	Elizabeth Street
Margaret Street	-	Margaret Street
South Brisbane Stanley Street	2	South Brisbane Vulture Street
Northern suburbs, Sunshine Coast Clem Jones Tunnel	4th	no exit
Greenslopes Juliette Street	5	Greenslopes Cornwall Street
no exit	8th	Tarragindi Marshall Road
Mount Gravatt Gaza Road	9	no exit
no exit	11	Upper Mount Gravatt Klump Road / Mains Road
Eight Mile Plains, Upper Mount Gravatt Logan Road	14th	Eight Mile Plains, Upper Mount Gravatt Logan Road
End start	16	no exit
Sunshine Coast , Brisbane Airport Gateway Motorway	16	End start
no exit	19th	Rochedale South, Springwood, Underwood Rochedale Road
Springwood, Underwood Logan Road	20th	Springwood Old Pacific Highway
no exit	22nd	Springwood Old Pacific Highway
Daisy Hill, Logan Central Paradise Road	23	Slack's Creek, Logan Central Chatswood Road
Daisy Hill, Loganlea Winnets Road	24	Daisy Hill, Loganlea Loganlea Road
Slack's Creek Nujooloo Road	25th	Shailer Park Shailer Road
Shailer Park Old Pacific Highway	26th	no exit
Shailer Park, Loganholme Bryants Road	28	Shailer Park, Tanah Merah Bryants Road
Loganholme, Redland Bay, Cleveland Beenleigh - Redland Bay Road	30th	Loganholme, Redland Bay, Cleveland Beenleigh - Redland Bay Road
Browns Plains, Ipswich , Toowoomba Logan Motorway	31	Browns Plains, Ipswich , Toowoomba Logan Motorway
Beenleigh City Road	34	Beenleigh, Eagleby City Road
Beenleigh, Eagleby Main Street	35	Beenleigh, Eagleby Main Street
Yatala, Jacobs Well Stapylton - Jacobs Well Road	38	Stapylton, Jacobs Well, Stapylton Travel Center Stapylton - Jacobs Well Road
Yatala, Ormeau Computer Road	41	Yatala, Ormeau Computer Road
Ormeau, Kingsholme, Norwell Mirambeena Drive	45	Ormeau, Kingsholme, Pimpama Peachey Road
Pimpama, Willow Vale, Jacobs Well Pimpama - Jacobs Well Road	49	Pimpama, Willow Vale, Jacobs Well Pimpama - Jacobs Well Road
Coomera, Upper Coomera, Coomera Travel Center, Dreamworld Foxwell Road	54	Coomera, Upper Coomera, Dreamworld Foxwell Road
Oxenford, Hope Island, Tamborine Mountain Hope Island Road, Tamborine - Oxenford Road	57	Oxenford, Hope Island, Tamborine Mountain Hope Island Road, Tamborine - Oxenford Road
Helensvale, Oxenford, Warner Bros. Movie World , Wet'n'Wild Water World Helensvale Road	60	Helensvale, Oxenford, Warner Bros. Movie World , Wet'n'Wild Water World Helensvale Road
Helensvale, Pacific Pines Gold Coast Highway	62	Helensvale, Pacific Pines Gold Coast Highway
Southport , Pacific Pines, Sea World Smith Street Motorway	66	Southport , Pacific Pines, Sea World Smith Street Motorway
Nerang, Ashmore, Southport Southport - Nerang Road	69	Nerang, Ashmore, Surfers Paradise Southport - Nerang Road
Nerang, Broadbeach, Beaudesert , Murwillumbah (NSW) Nerang - Broadbeach Road	71	Nerang, Broadbeach, Beaudesert , Murwillumbah (NSW) Nerang - Broadbeach Road
no exit	71A	Nerang Pappas Way
Nerang, Carrara, Broadbeach Nielsons Road	73	Nerang, Carrara, Broadbeach Nielsons Road
Worongary, Carrara Elysium Road	75	Worongary, Carrara Elysium Road
Worongary, Merrimac, Broadbeach , Tallai Gold Coast - Springbrook Road (Gooding Drive)	77	Worongary, Merrimac, Broadbeach , Tallai Gold Coast - Springbrook Road (Gooding Drive)
Mudgeeraba, Robina, Springbrook Robina Parkway	79	Mudgeeraba, Robina Robina Parkway
Mudgeeraba, Springbrook The Link Way	80	no exit
Robina, Mudgeeraba Somerset Drive	82	Robina, Mudgeeraba Robina Parkway
Burleigh Heads, Reedy Creek, Varsity Lakes Reedy Creek Road	85	Burleigh Heads, Reedy Creek, Varsity Lakes Reedy Creek Road
no exit	85A	Penny Lane
Burleigh Heads, Reedy Creek, Southport Bermuda Street	87	Burleigh Heads, Reedy Creek Bermuda Street
Burleigh Heads, Tallebudgera Tallebudgera Creek Road	89	Burleigh Heads, Tallebudgera Tallebudgera Creek Road
Palm Beach, Elanora Palm Beach Avenue	92	Palm Beach, Elanora Palm Beach Avenue
Palm Beach, Elanora, Currumbin K.P. McGrath Drive	93	Palm Beach, Elanora, Currumbin Sarawak Avenue
Currumbin, Currumbin Valley Stewart Road	95	Currumbin, Tugun, Coolangatta, Gold Coast Airport, Gold Coast Highway , Stewart Road
Tunnel under airport runway
QLD STATE BORDER NSW
Start Pacific Motorway End Start	-	Tweed Heads (NSW), Gold Coast Airport, Gold Coast Highway , Kennedy Drive
Tweed Heads (NSW), Coolangatta, Tugun, Gold Coast Airport, Gold Coast Highway	-	End of Pacific Motorway further than Pacific Highway to Ballina and Sydney