Logan Motorway

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Logan Motorway
      
M2: Gailes - Drewvale (Formerly Metroad 4)
Metroad 6: Drewvale - Loganholme
General information
Type Undefined
Length 30 km (19 mi)
Route number(s) M2 (Gailes - Drewvale)
Metroad 6 (Drewvale - Loganholme)
Major junctions
West end Ipswich Motorway, Gailes, Queensland
  Centenary Motorway
Mount Lindesay Hwy
Gateway Motorway
for full list see Exits and Interchanges.
East end Pacific Motorway, Loganholme, Queensland
Location(s)
via Drewvale, Loganlea

The M2/MR6 Logan Motorway offers motorists a quick link between Ipswich and the M1 or Pacific Motorway at Loganholme, and the Gateway Motorway, providing access to the Gold Coast on the eastern seaboard and to the rural areas of the Darling Downs to the west.

The road is operated and owned by Queensland Motorways.[1] Electronic free-flow tolling was implemented in 2009. Three toll points are located along this transport corridor at Stapylton Road and Loganlea Road on the Logan Motorway and at Kuraby on the Gateway Extension.[1] Most of this road was formally Metroad 4 prior to the Gateway Motorway extension in 1997.[2]

History

The Logan Motorway Act of 1987 permitted a franchise period of 30 years from completion of construction.[3] The original owner was the Logan Motorway Company Ltd.

It originally opened as a two-lane motorway on 13 December 1988, and was upgraded to four in two stages.[1] The first stage of the duplication (Ipswich Motorway to Wembley Road) was completed in December 1996, followed by the second (Wembley Road to Pacific Motorway) on 23 May 2000. The Gateway Motorway was linked in 1997.[3]

Exits and Interchanges

Logan Motorway[4]
Westbound exits Distance to
Ipswich
(km)		 Distance to
Gold Coast
(km)		 Eastbound exits
End Logan Motorway
continues as Ipswich Motorway
to Ipswich / Sydney / Melbourne / Darwin		 17 77 Start Logan Motorway
continues from Ipswich Motorway
Gailes
Viking Drive
no exit 18 76 Camira, Carole Park
Formation Street
Carole Park, Wacol
Boundary Road		 19 75 no exit
End Toll 20 74 Springfield
Centenary Motorway
Springfield, Jindalee, Brisbane
Centenary Motorway 		Start Toll
Forestdale, Forest Lake
Stapylton Road 		26 68 Toll Gantry
Toll Gantry Forestdale, Forest Lake
Stapylton Road
Forestdale, Acacia Ridge
Paradise Road		 27.5 66.5 Acacia Ridge, Forestdale
Paradise Road
Brisbane-Sydney Rail Line 28 66 Brisbane-Sydney Rail Line
Start Toll 30 64 Acacia Ridge, Brisbane
Beaudesert Road (North)
Acacia Ridge, Brisbane
Beaudesert Road (North) 		Regents Park, Beaudesert
Beaudesert Road (South)
Regents Park, Beaudesert
Beaudesert Road (South) 		End Toll
End
continues as 		32 62 Sunshine Coast, Cairns
Gateway Motorway
Sunshine Coast, Cairns
Gateway Motorway 		continues as
Browns Plains, Logan Central
Wembley Road 		34 60 Browns Plains, Logan Central
Wembley Road
End Toll 40 54 Bethania, Underwood
Kingston Road
via Jutland Street
Bethania, Underwood
Kingston Road
via Station Road		 Start Toll
Gold Coast Rail Line 41 53 Gold Coast Rail Line
Daisy Hill, Loganlea
Loganlea Road		 42 52 Toll Gantry
Toll Gantry Daisy Hill, Loganlea
Loganlea Road via University Drive
Start Toll 46 48 End Toll
Drews Road Loganholme, Brisbane
Pacific Highway Service Road
Drews Road
Start Logan Motorway
continues from Pacific Motorway 		47 47 End Logan Motorway
continues as Pacific Motorway
to Gold Coast / Ballina

See also

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "About the Logan Motorway". Queensland Motorways Limited. Retrieved 2010-11-16. 
  2. ↑ "Road Photos & Information: Queensland". Paul Rands. Retrieved 2010-11-16. 
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Howells, Mary (2003). Logan River Tinnie Trail. Logan City Council. p. 45. ISBN 0975051903. 
  4. ↑ "Logan Motorwat". Google Maps. Retrieved 2010-11-16. 

External links

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