Gateway Motorway
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Queensland
The Gateway Motorway is a motorway in Brisbane city in the southeast of the Australian state of Queensland. The Sir Leo Hielscher Bridges (formerly the Gateway Bridge ) are operated by Queensland Motorways.
The highway runs to the east around Brisbane and creates a fast connection from the Gold Coast to the Sunshine Coast. It starts at the Logan Motorway (M2 ) in Drewvale south of the city and ends at the motorway junction in Bald Hills in the north of the city, where it joins the Pacific Highway ( NA1 ) and the Gympie Arterial Road. At the motorway junction in Eight Mile Plains, her former end (until 1997), it coincides with the Pacific Motorway (M1 ) and the South East Freeway (M3) and changes its name from M2 to M1. The Sir Leo Hielscher Bridges over the Brisbane River in Eagle Farm belong to this highway. The road provides the access to the port and airport of Brisbane.
Extension
Formerly called the Gateway Motorway Gateway Arterial Road, as it was not classified as a motorway and three large roundabouts north of the Brisbane River had. 1987 downgraded the Queensland Government, the road up to the highway, so you get along with the many traffic. In 1990 the bridges over the East - West Arterial Road and the newly built Airport Drive created in Hendra. Since 1991, the highway between Eight Mile Plains and Bracken Ridge consists of four lanes. In early 1996, a further stage was reached with the establishment of four lanes between Bracken Ridge and Bald Hills.
1995, they began the construction of the southern access to the Logan Motorway, so the Southern Brisbane Bypass was built. The road was opened on 13 May 1997.
On 17 February 2005 an AU $, the Minister of Transport and Main Roads announced 1.6 billion expensive project to expand the Gateway Motorway at which a new Gateway Bridge, next to the old, laying a road between Eagle Farm and Nudgee and improvements south of the river foresaw. Work began in early 2007.
The new Gateway Bridge (both were back in ' Sir Leo Hielscher Bridges' renamed) was opened in four-lane design on May 24, 2010. The remaining two tracks were put into operation on August 15, 2010. The adaptation of the old bridge to the new was completed on 28 November 2010. North of the bridge, the motorway is now further east and another shuttle, the Moreton Drive was created as an access road to the domestic terminal of the airport. The new route was opened on 19 July 2009 the Moreton Drive on December 3, 2009.
The road on the old route of the Gateway Motorway was renamed in November 2010 in Southern Cross Way and the fees cottages were replaced by electronic Gebührenaufnehmer.
South of the highway bridges has been extended until the exit Wynnum Road on 9 tracks and to exit Old Cleveland Road on 8 tracks. From there it is six lanes to the confluence with Pacific Motorway. The expansion between Lyton Road and Mount Gravatt Capalaba Road was completed on 28 January 2010, the. Between Mount Gravatt Capalaba Road and the Pacific Motorway 30 July 2011
In the first stage of the highway had no number. Since March 1994 she was called Metro Road 1 and since 2005 she has worked as M1, and M2 denotes.
Connections
Remarks Distances are rounded. Measured to the end of the Sir Leo Hielscher Bridges.