Centenary Motorway

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Centenary Motorway
Queensland
   
Motorway extension near Ripley, Queensland
General information
Type Highway
Length 43 km (27 mi)
Major junctions
North end Toowong, Brisbane
South end Yamanto, Ipswich
Location(s)
Major settlements Darra
Sinnamon Park

The M5 (Centenary Motorway) is a 43-kilometre (27 mi) motorway in the western suburbs of Brisbane, Australia.

It starts as a two-lane arterial road at Yamanto, travelling to Springfield, where it becomes a two-lane highway and travels across the M2 Logan Motorway at Ellen Grove (formerly Metroad 4 / M4) and ends at Kenmore where it changes its name to the M5 Western Freeway. It features eight interchanges, the major ones being with the M7 Ipswich Motorway (formerly Metroad 2 / M2) in Darra and another at Sinnamon Park. The Centenary Freeway links traffic from the west to the north of Brisbane.

In October 2012, it was announced that the planned bikeway from Springfield to the existing bikeway along the Motorway would not proceed. Instead the existing two lane road would be expanded by two lanes.[1]

Recent Motorway designation

Almost the entire length is of road is of freeway/motorway 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. Officially the M5 starts/ends at the Sumner Road Interchange and not at the M7/M5 Interchange. This will of course change when the M7/M5 Interchange is upgraded.

The M5 has been identified to receive a major upgrade in the South East Queensland Infrastructure Plan and Program. Additional lanes will be added to accommodate Transit Lanes.

Extension

The motorway was extended to Yamanto and opened in late June 2009.[2] The extension cost $366 million and was opened by Anna Bligh. Five bridges along the new section were named after local people, places, events and football teams, including botanist Lloyd Bird and the Box Flat Mine disaster.[2]

Interchanges

Centenary Motorway
Northbound exits Distance to
Brisbane
(km)		 Distance to
Springfield
(km)		 Southbound exits
End Centenary Motorway
continues as Western Freeway
to Brisbane		 9 22 Start Centenary Motorway
continues from Western Freeway
Kenmore, Indooroopilly
Moggill Road 		9.5 21.5 no exit
Fig Tree Pocket
Fig Tree Pocket Road		 11 20 Fig Tree Pocket
Fig Tree Pocket Road
BRISBANE RIVER 13 18 BRISBANE RIVER
no exit 13.5 17.5 Jindalee
Sinnamon Road
Oxley, Jindalee
Seventeen Mile Rocks Road / Sinnamon Road		 13.7 17.3 no exit
no exit 14 17 Jindalee, Oxley
Seventeen Mile Rocks Road
Mount Ommaney, Sinnamon Park
Dandenong Road / Glen Ross Road		 15 16 Sinnamon Park, Mount Ommaney
Glen Ross Road / Dandenong Road
Jamboree Heights, Darra
Sumners Road		 16 15 Darra, Jamboree Heights
Sumners Road
IPSWICH RAILWAY LINE 16.5 14.5 IPSWICH RAILWAY LINE
Rocklea, Woolloongabba
Ipswich Motorway
Rocklea, Woolloongabba
Ipswich Motorway 		17 14 Ipswich, Sydney, Melbourne, Darwin
Ipswich Motorway
no exit 18.5 12.5 Richlands, Forest Lake
Garden Road
Wacol, Woodridge
Progress Road 		19 12 no exit
Logan Central, Gold Coast, Sunshine Coast
Logan Motorway 		22 9 Logan Central, Gold Coast
Logan Motorway
Ipswich, Sydney, Melbourne, Darwin
Logan Motorway
Springfield, Springfield Lakes
Springfield Parkway / Springfield Lakes Boulevard		 29 2 Springfield Lakes, Springfield
Springfield Parkway / Springfield Lakes Boulevard
no exit 30 1 Greenbank, Springfield Central
Springfield-Greenbank Arterial
Start Centenary Motorway 31 -- End Centenary Motorway
Traffic Lights (clockwise from motorway)
Augusta Parkway to Redbank Plains (7 km) and Ipswich (21 km)
Main Street
Sinnathamby Boulevard

See also

References

  1. ↑ Tony Moore (10 October 2012). "Bikeway axed for Centenary Motorway widening". Brisbane Times (Fairfax Media). Retrieved 21 June 2013. 
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Tony Moore (28 June 2009). "New Centenary Highway opens tomorrow". Brisbane Times (Fairfax Media). Retrieved 21 June 2013. 

Coordinates: 27°38′54.77″S 152°55′59.76″E / 27.6485472°S 152.9332667°E / -27.6485472; 152.9332667

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