Mount Lindesay Highway

Mount Lindesay Highway Beaudesert Road Queensland
Mount Lindesay Highway (green and black)
General information
Type	Highway
Length	116 km (72 mi)
Route number(s)	National Route 13 (1955–present)
Major junctions
North end	Ipswich Road (A7) Moorooka, Brisbane
	Granard / Riawena Roads (Metroad 2) Learoyd Road (State Route 30) Compton Road (State Route 30) Logan Motorway (M2) Browns Plains Road (State Route 94) Stockleigh Road (State Route 88) Beaudesert–Nerang Road (State Route 90) Beaudesert–Boonah Road (State Route 90)
South end	Summerland Way (B91) QLD/NSW border
Location(s)
Major settlements	Jimboomba, Beaudesert, Rathdowney
Highway system
Highways in Australia National Highway • Freeways in Australia Highways in Queensland

Mount Lindesay Highway is an Australian national highway located in Queensland. The highway runs southwest from Brisbane, where it leaves Ipswich Road in the suburb of Moorooka (as Beaudesert Road to the Logan Motorway), to the Queensland – New South Wales border and is 116 kilometres (72 mi) in length. For most of its length it is roughly aligned with the Sydney–Brisbane rail corridor. At its southern end these transport routes take different passes over the Scenic Rim into the Northern Rivers region. It is designated National Route 13.

Route

Mount Lindesay Highway commences at the intersection with Ipswich Road in Moorooka and heads in a southerly direction sign-posted as Beaudesert Road, through Brisbane's southern suburban fringes, where it then crosses Logan Motorway. It continues south sign-posted as Mount Lindesay Highway through Jimboomba and Beaudesert, and onwards through the Scenic Rim region through Rathdowney, where the northern end of Lions Road tourist drive begins. South of Rathdowney the highway becomes very winding as it climbs the McPherson Range passing Mount Chinghee National Park, Mount Barney National Park and Border Ranges National Park on the way. The highway officially ends at the state border with New South Wales, where it continues south eventually to Casino and Grafton as Summerland Way.

History

Until the 1950s, the highway formed part of the main traffic route between Brisbane and Sydney. The coastal route (now the Pacific Highway) was not favoured due to the large number of ferry crossings of the wide coastal rivers, the frequency and severity of flooding of these rivers and the consequent poor state of much of the road for extended periods, and its steep, winding nature as it crossed the intermediate hills between each river valley.

The passing of the Main Roads Act of 1924 through the Parliament of New South Wales provided for the declaration of Main Roads, roads partially funded by the State government through the Main Roads Board (later the Department of Main Roads, and eventually Transport for NSW). Great Northern Highway was declared (as Main Road No. 9) on 8 August 1928, running from North Sydney via Hornsby, Peat's Ferry, Gosford, Swansea, Newcastle, Maitland, Singleton, Tamworth, Armidale, Glen Innes, Tenterfield and Woodenbong to the border with Queensland; with the passing of the Main Roads (Amendment) Act of 1929 to provide for additional declarations of State Highways and Trunk Roads, this was amended to State Highway 9 on 8 April 1929. This was renamed New England Highway, through Queensland on 14 February 1933, and a month later through New South Wales on 14 March 1933, running from Hexham, Maitland, Singleton, Tamworth, Armidale, Glen Innes, Tenterfield, Woodenbong and Beaudesert to Brisbane.

In November 1949, a sealed road was opened through Cunninghams Gap, linking south-western Brisbane to Warwick, to eventually supplant the route via Mount Lindesay as the main Brisbane-Sydney traffic route as far south as Tenterfield. As a result, New England Highway was re-routed through Warwick along the route that was then known in Queensland as the Lockyer-Darling Downs Highway on 11 August 1954. Against the wishes of the Beaudesert Shire Council and the Woodenbong Chamber of Commerce, the former alignment of New England Highway from Tenterfield through Beaudesert to Brisbane was re-declared Mount Lindesay Highway, after Mount Lindesay, the residue of a solidified magma core, that is part of the Mount Warning volcanic area and is situated in the western extreme of Border Ranges National Park. The NSW Department of Main Roads (which had succeeded the New South Wales MRB in 1932), declared the New South Wales section as State Highway 24, from Tenterfield via Legume and Woodenbong to the state border with Queensland.

The New South Wales section of Mount Lindesay Highway, which still included unsealed portions, was eventually de-gazetted as a highway by NSW Department of Main Roads on 23 December 1981 due to very low traffic volumes, it was renamed Mount Lindesay Road and re-declared as Main Road 622. This left the Queensland section as the only surviving part of the highway. Within New South Wales, Summerland Way was consequently extended north 9.4km along the alignment of the former highway to meet the Queensland end of the highway at the state border, and the eastern end of Mount Lindesay Road was truncated at the intersection with Summerland Way just east of Woodenbong.

Between 2007 and 2009 4.5 kilometres (2.8 mi) of the highway in the Logan City local government area was upgraded. As well as providing dual carriageways, the work included building service roads so that local traffic does not have to travel on the main carriageways, thereby reducing congestion.

Upgrades

Projects

Towns and Localities on the Mount Lindesay Highway (QLD) & Mount Lindesay Road (NSW)

From north to south, the following towns, suburbs and localities are either bounded by or passed through by the Mount Lindesday Highway and Mount Lindesay Road respectively:

Major intersections

State	LGA	Location	km	mi	Destinations	Notes
Queensland	Brisbane	Moorooka	0	0.0	Ipswich Road (A7) – Annerley, Rocklea	Northern terminus of Beaudesert Road and National Route 13
		Moorooka–Salisbury boundary	2.2	1.4	Evans Road (State Route 20) – Rocklea, Salisbury
		Rocklea–Salisbury–Archerfield–Coopers Plains quadripoint	4.0	2.5	Riawena Road (Metroad 2 east) – Robertson Granard Road (Metroad 2 west) – Rocklea
		Archerfield–Coopers Plains boundary	5.1	3.2	Boundary Road (State Route 56 east) – Sunnybank Boundary Road (west) – Archerfield
		Acacia Ridge	8.6	5.3	Bradman Street (State Route 11) – Acacia Ridge, Algester
		Acacia Ridge–Algester–Sunnybank Hills tripoint	9.1	5.7	Learoyd Road (State Route 30 west) – Willawong Hellawell Road (east) – Sunnybank Hills	Concurrency with State Route 30
		Sunnybank Hills–Calamvale boundary	10.8	6.7	Compton Road (State Route 30 east) – Stretton
		Parkinson–Drewvale boundary	15.0	9.3	Logan Motorway (M2) – Drewvale, Parkinson	Partial cloverleaf interchange Southern terminus of Beaudesert Road, northern terminus of Mount Lindsay Highway
	Logan	Parkinson–Hillcrest–Browns Plains tripoint	16.6	10.3	Browns Plains Road (State Route 94 east) – Browns Plains Johnson Road (west) – Hillcrest	Modified diamond interchange
		Park Ridge	21.2	13.2	Park Ridge Road (State Route 64 east) – Park Ridge Crest Road (west) – Greenbank	Modified diamond interchange
		Munruben–North Maclean boundary	28.0	17.4	Chambers Flat Road (State Route 59 east) – Chambers Flat Crowson Lane (west) – North Maclean	Modified diamond interchange
		Jimboomba	34.9	21.7	Camp Cable Road (State Route 88) – Logan Village
	Scenic Rim	Beaudesert	57.6	35.8	Beaudesert–Nerang Road (State Route 90 east) – Tamborine	Concurrency with State Route 90
			58.0	36.0	Beaudesert–Boonah Road (State Route 90 west) – Boonah
		Rathdowney	88.9	55.2	Running Creek Road, to Lions Road – Running Creek, Loadstone
			90.0	55.9	Boonah–Rathdowney Road (State Route 93) – Boonah
		Mount Lindesay–Mount Barney boundary	116.0	72.1	Mount Lindesay Highway (National Route 13)	Southern terminus of Mount Lindesay Highway and National Route 13
State border					Queensland – New South Wales state border
New South Wales	Kyogle	Lindesay Creek–Dairy Flat boundary			Summerland Way (B91) – Woodenbong, Kyogle, Casino, Grafton	Northern terminus of Summerland Way and route B91
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi       Concurrency terminus       Route transition

Gallery

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  Overpass and footbridge at Hillcrest, Logan City, 2014
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  Mount Lindesay, located adjacent to the Mount Lindesay Highway.
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  Maclean Bridge at North Maclean, 2014

See also

• Highways in Australia
• List of highways in Queensland