Cunningham Highway

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Queensland

The Cunningham Highway is a highway in the southeast of the Australian state of Queensland. It connects the Ipswich Motorway (M2) and the Warrego Highway ( NA2 ) in Ipswich with the New England Highway (N15, A3) in Warwick, and the Leichhardt Highway ( RA39 ) and the Barwon Highway ( S85) in Goondiwindi.

The street was named after the explorer and botanist Allan Cunningham, whose expedition in 1828 nearly took the path of today's highways.

Course

The Cunningham Highway branches off in Riverview, an eastern suburb of Ipswich from the Ipswich Motorway to the southwest. He then spreads as a national road 15 by the Main Range and there over the pass Cunninghams Gap. After Cunningham had discovered this route, he sent a report as Governor Ralph Darling and pointed to the economic benefits of the new connection from the coast and the pasture land west of it.

North of Warwick meets the Cunningham Highway on the New England Highway and, together with him to Warwick. There it branches as National Road 42 to the west and ends in Goondiwindi on the border with New South Wales.

The highest point in the course of the highway is located at 787 meters, the lowest at 22 m.

Road Conditions

The highway is regularly closed due to landslides that leave mud and debris on the road for a short time, especially on the steep sections near the Cunningham's Gap.

Further expansion

The Centenary Motorway (M5 ) of Springfield is connected to the Cunningham Highway at Yamanto. It is also expected that a further expansion and a possible rail link Ipswich - space is at Springfield.