Pacific Motorway

Pacific Motorway
Formerly
Length	100 km (62 mi)
Direction	North-South
From	Inner City Bypass Gateway Motorway Logan Motorway Gold Coast Highway for full list see exits.
Major settlements	Rochedale, Loganholme, Beenleigh, Nerang, Mudgeeraba, Tugun
To	Pacific Highway, Tweed Heads, New South Wales
Allocation	Brisbane CBD-Eight Mile Plains: Eight Mile Plains - NSW/Qld Border:
Major junctions	Gateway Motorway Logan Motorway Gold Coast Highway for full list see exits.

See also: Pacific Highway (Australia) and Riverside Expressway

The Pacific Motorway is a 100 km long motorway in Australia between Brisbane, Queensland, and the New South Wales-Queensland border at Tweed Heads. The motorway starts at Coronation Drive at Milton in Brisbane, and from 2008 links the Tweed Heads bypass in New South Wales. The Brisbane city section of the motorway is also often referred to by its former name, the Riverside Expressway. The first section opened in Brisbane in 1973 was originally known as the South East Freeway. The South East Freeway was known originally as the F3, however this has since been replaced in 1994.

The 6 lane section of the Motorway at Woolloongabba.

The motorway features eight traffic lanes with a 110 km/h speed limit between the M6 Logan Motorway and Smith Street Motorway and generally six or four lanes at 100 km/h on other sections. The motorway passes through the major tourist region of the Gold Coast, the destination for most of the vehicular traffic from Brisbane. More than A$2 billion has been spent on the motorway since 1990 to 1998, including widening the road and improving safety.

In March 2006 the Queensland Government released planning for substantial changes to the section between Springwood and Daisy Hill. The changes are mainly to the entrances and exits in the section, most of which cause substantial traffic problems on surrounding streets and traffic backups onto the Motorway. The planned upgrade has led some people to protest, mainly by those whose homes will be resumed for the project. The Government hopes to commence development in early 2007 but it is reliant on the Federal Government funding half the cost. Planning for the Daisy Hill to Loganholme section will begin August 2007, with the draft plans released for public consultation in April 2007 [2].

There are also plans to progressively widen the four lane section from Nerang to Tugun to six lanes. REF (review of environmental factors) and planning works is currently being undertaken, however, it is expected that sometime in 2010 any major widening works will commence. [3].

The Tugun Bypass was completed in 2008 and has four lanes (two in each direction in 2008 and provision for six lane widening in the future) In 2025, widening will take place within the plans of provision from four lanes to six lanes "RTA and Tweed Council traffic master plan".

Travellers along the Motorway will pass close by many Gold Coast attractions such as Warner Bros. Movie World, Wet 'n' Wild, and Dreamworld, which are among the most popular theme parks in Australia.

Travel Centres

The Pacific Motorway when it was upgraded in September 2000 was the first motorway in Queensland to have service centres integrated. Two centres, referred to as travel centres (although signed as Service Centres on the motorway signage) exist, on at Stapylton servicing southbound traffic, and Coomera servicing northbound. The travel centres include BP and McDonalds as well as a couple of other fast food restaurants, picnic areas and a shop. Solar panels on the roofs of the centres provide power to the facilities.

Speed Cameras

There is a fixed speed camera on the Pacific Motorway at Tarragindi, facing northbound. There is another at Loganholme just after the Logan Motorway exit facing northbound. Mobile speed cameras are frequently found pulled over on the left side, generally semi-obscured by bushes.

Exits

Pacific Motorway
Northbound exits	Exit Number	Southbound exits
End Motorway Road 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	-	Southbound traffic use North Quay
Turbot Street	-	Start 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	4	no exit
Greenslopes Juliette Street	5	Greenslopes Cornwall Street
no exit	8	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	14	Eight Mile Plains, Upper Mount Gravatt Logan Road
End Start	16	no exit
Sunshine Coast, Brisbane Airport Gateway Motorway		End Start
no exit	19	Rochedale South, Springwood, Underwood Rochedale Road
Springwood, Underwood Logan Road	20	Springwood Old Pacific Highway
no exit	22	Springwood Old Pacific Highway
Daisy Hill, Logan Central Paradise Road	23	Slacks Creek, Logan Central Chatswood Road
Daisy Hill, Loganlea Winnets Road	24	Daisy Hill, Loganlea Loganlea Road
Slacks Creek Nujooloo Road	25	Shailer Park Shailer Road
Shailer Park Old Pacific Highway	26	no exit
Shailer Park, Loganholme Bryants Road	28	Shailer Park, Tanah Merah Bryants Road
Loganholme, Redland Bay, Cleveland Beenleigh — Redland Bay Road	30	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 Centre 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 Centre, 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, MovieWorld, Wet'n'Wild Helensvale Road	60	Helensvale, Oxenford, MovieWorld, Wet'n'Wild 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 Nerang — Broadbeach Road	71	Nerang, Broadbeach, Beaudesert, Murwillumbah Nerang — Broadbeach Road
no exit	71A	Nerang Pappas Way
Nerang, Cararra, Broadbeach Nielsons Road	73	Nerang, Cararra, Broadbeach Nielsons Road
Worongary, Cararra Elysium Road	75	Worongary, Cararra 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, Gold Coast Airport Gold Coast Highway, Kennedy Drive
Tweed Heads, Coolangatta, Tugun, Gold Coast Airport Gold Coast Highway		End Pacific Motorway continues on as Pacific Highway to Ballina and Sydney

Notes

Exits are numbered depending on distance to Brisbane CBD.

See also

• Freeways in Australia
• Freeways in New South Wales
• Freeways in Brisbane
• Freeways in Gold Coast
• M1, Queensland
• Pacific Highway

External links

• Queensland Department of Main Roads - Pacific Motorway