Logan Motorway | |
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| Logan Motorway 2019 | |
| General information | |
| Type | Motorway |
| Length | 30.3 km (19 mi) |
| Route number(s) |
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| Former route number |
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| Major junctions | |
| West end |   Ipswich MotorwayGailes, Queensland |
| East end |  Pacific MotorwayLoganholme, Queensland |
| Location(s) | |
| Major suburbs / towns | Drewvale,Loganlea |
| Highway system | |
TheM2/M6 Logan Motorway is a 30-kilometretoll road betweenIpswich and the M1 orPacific Motorway atLoganholme, and theGateway Motorway, providing access to theGold Coast on the eastern seaboard and to the rural areas of theDarling Downs to the west. The M6 portion runs from the Pacific Motorway to the junction with the Gateway Motorway atDrewvale, where it then becomes the M2, continuing on to merge with the Ipswich Motorway atGailes.
The road is operated and owned byTransurban Queensland.[1] Most of this road was formally Metroad 4 prior to the Gateway Motorway extension in 1997.[2]
The road was used by an average of 203,000 vehicles per day in 2023.[3]
The Logan Motorway Act of 1987 permitted a franchise period of 30 years from completion of construction.[4] The original owner was the Logan Motorway Company Ltd, later a company ofQueensland Motorways.Russell Hinze attended a ceremony at Loganlea for the turning of the first sod in the construction of the Logan Motorway in October 1987.[5]
It originally opened as a two-lane motorway on 13 December 1988, and was upgraded to four in two stages.[6] 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. TheGateway Motorway was linked in 1997.[4]
Toll booths at Wembley Road were removed in April 1997.[5] Too many heavy vehicles were avoiding the toll by using Compton Road.[5]
In December 2020, a man on the Logan Motorway was shot dead by police as he approached them with a knife in his hand.[7]
In 2015, the road was deemed to be a traffic bottleneck. It was exceeding its planned capacity with up to 60,000 vehicles per day using the motorway.[8] Late in the same year it was announced thatTransurban would upgrade the Logan Motorway . It underwent a $450 million upgrade constructed from 2016 through to 2019.[9][10][11] The upgrade, known as the Logan Enhancement Project, included upgrades to the Logan Motorway andGateway Motorway:[12][13]
The road is operated and owned byTransurban Queensland.[1] The state continued to own the road and bridge infrastructure.[14] Electronicfree-flow tolling was implemented in 2009.
Tolls on the Logan Motorway were originally due to expire 30 years after opening, in 2018. In April 2011, the tolls were extended to 2051 as a result of the transfer ofQueensland Motorways' tollways to theQueensland Investment Corporation (QIC).[15]
The motorway has three toll points:[16][6]
Additionally, all traffic between the Logan Motorway andGateway Extension must pass through the Kuraby or Compton Road toll points of the Gateway Extension. This means travel on any section of Logan Motorway between Stapylton Road and Loganlea Road incurs two tolls (a combination of any Gateway Motorway or Logan Motorway tolls). The short sections of Logan Motorway betweenIpswich Motorway andCentenary Motorway and between Drews Road andPacific Motorway are toll-free.
| Toll road | Class 1 (Motorcycles) | Class 2 (Cars) | Class 3 (Light Commercial Vehicles) | Class 4 (Heavy Commercial Vehicles) | Toll increase | Toll concessionaire[18] | Expiry of toll concession[19][20] | |
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| Logan Motorway | Loganlea toll point | $1.03 | $2.06 | $3.10 | $6.96 | Annually on 1 July, by CPI | Transurban Queensland[a] (62.5% owned by Transurban) | 31 December 2051[21] |
| Heathwood and Paradise Road toll points | $1.70 | $3.40 | $5.09 | $11.49 | Annually on 1 July, by CPI | |||
| LGA | Location | km | mi | Exit | Destinations | Notes |
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| Brisbane–Ipswich boundary | Wacol–Gailes boundary | 0 | 0.0 | Ipswich Motorway (State Route M2) west – Ipswich,Toowoomba | Western motorway terminus: continues as Ipswich Motorway westbound; no access to Ipswich Motorway north east bound or from Ipswich Motorway south west bound | |
| 0.5 | 0.31 | 25 | Brisbane Road – Goodna,Redbank Plains | Westbound exit and eastbound entrance | ||
| Carole Park | 0.8 | 0.50 | 24 | Formation Street – Camira,Carole Park | Eastbound exit and westbound entrance | |
| 2 | 1.2 | 23 | Boundary Road – Carole Park,Wacol | Westbound exit and eastbound entrance | ||
| Brisbane | Forest Lake | 3.4 | 2.1 | 22 |  Centenary Motorway (State Route M5) – Springfield,Jindalee,Brisbane | No eastbound exit to M5 northbound; no westbound entrance from M5 southbound |
| 7 | 4.3 | Heathwood toll point | ||||
| Heathwood | 8.2 | 5.1 | 17 |  Stapylton Road (State Route 35) – Forestdale,Forest Lake | Toll points on westbound exit and eastbound entrance only | |
| Larapinta | 10.9 | 6.8 | 14 | Paradise Road – Acacia Ridge,Forestdale | Toll points on westbound exit and eastbound entrance only | |
| Parkinson–Drewvale boundary | 13.9 | 8.6 | 11 | Beaudesert Road – Acacia Ridge,Brisbane,Regents Park,Beaudesert | Parclo Interchange | |
| Drewvale | 15.8 | 9.8 | 9 |  Gateway Motorway (State Route M2) north – Sunshine Coast,Cairns,Brisbane Airport | Trumpet interchange; Route transition: M2 westbound,Metroad 6 eastbound | |
| Logan | Berrinba | 16.9 | 10.5 | 8 |  Wembley Road (State Route 50) – Browns Plains,Logan Central Wembley Road toll point was under the bridge. | |
| Loganlea | 22.7 | 14.1 | 5 |  Kingston Road (State Route 95) via Jutland Street & Station Road – Bethania,Underwood | Eastbound exit and entrance via Jutland Street, westbound exit and entrance via Station Road | |
| Meadowbrook | 24.2 | 15.0 | 4 | Loganlea Road – Daisy Hill,Loganlea | Westbound exit and entrance | |
| 24.5 | 15.2 | 4 | University Drive to Loganlea Road – Daisy Hill,Loganlea | Eastbound exit and entrance | ||
| 25.2 | 15.7 | Loganlea toll point | ||||
| Tanah Merah–Loganholme boundary | 29.3 | 18.2 | 1 | Drews Road | ||
| Loganholme | 29.8 | 18.5 | Pacific Highwayfrontage road – Loganholme,Brisbane | Eastbound exit is via Drews Road ramp | ||
| 30.3 | 18.8 | Pacific Motorway (State Route M1) south – Gold Coast,Ballina,Gold Coast Airport | Eastern terminus: continues as Pacific Motorway southbound; no access to M1 northbound or from M1 southbound | |||
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