Pacific Motorway
Pacific Motorway | |
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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 : |
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Six-lane section of the Pacific Motorway near Woolloongabba |
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) |
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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 |
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 |
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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 |
Remarks The exits are numbered in ascending order from downtown Brisbane .
Web links
Pacific Motorway . Queensland Department of Main Roads
source
Steve Parish: Australian Touring Atlas . Steve Parish Publishing. Archerfield QLD 2007. ISBN 978-1-74193-232-4 . P. 3 + 7