Centenary Freeway, Brisbane

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Centenary Freeway
Queensland Roads
Length	17km
General direction	West-East
From	Springfield, Ipswich
To	Kenmore, Brisbane
Places passed	Darra, Sinnamon Park

The Centenary Freeway is a nine kilometre freeway-style road in the western suburbs of Brisbane, Australia It forms part of Metroad 5. Most of the road has been renamed the Centenary Freeway, however it is likely that the road will still be commonly known as a highway for some time.

It starts at Springfield as a two-lane highway and travels across the Logan Motorway at Ellen Grove and ends at Kenmore where it changes its name to the Western Freeway. It features eight interchanges, the major ones being with the Ipswich Motorway in Darra and another at Sinnamon Park. The Centenary Freeway links traffic from the west to the north of Brisbane.

[edit] Recent Freeway Designation

The Centenary Freeway is in the process of officially becoming a freeway. Almost the entire length is of road is of freeway standard and has now been designated as such. Those sections not of freeway standard are being upgraded and re-designated over time. As of October 2006 the blue hexagonal Metroad 5 signage is getting progressively replaced with M5 signage.