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Commencing in Bald Hills at the junction of the Gateway Motorway and Gympie Arterial Road, the Bruce Highway is a motorway standard road (signed as the M1) for its first 163 kilometres (101 mi) to Curra, where it becomes a two-lane sealed highway for most of its remainder.
This road is notable for its high accident rate when it was a highway. An article titled "The old Bruce Highway is a ghost highway drive" in the "Gympie Times" of 1 January 2014 states: Driving along the old Bruce Highway between Federal and Traveston Crossing is an odd and almost spooky experience.
The road has been constructed as the new A1/M1 (Bruce Highway) route that bypasses the inner metro area of Townsville. The road was built in 5 stages with the first stage, the Douglas Arterial Road, [1] opened in April 2005 and the most recent section opened in October 2023. [2]
The roadside rest areas, constructed by the Main Roads Commission (MRC) from the early 1950s on the old Bruce Highway and on roads feeding onto the highway (at Petrie; Jowarra, Landsborough; Paynter's Creek, Woombye) represent a pattern of development of the tourist industry in Queensland intrinsically linked to the rise of motor transport Australia-wide in the second half of the 20th century.
Mulgrave Road, officially road number 809, is shown on Google maps as Bruce Highway (route A1). The road that is officially part of section 10P of the Bruce Highway (Ray Jones Drive) has no shield shown on Google maps. The roads described below are in accordance with the official TMR documentation, rather than Google maps.
Marlborough–Sarina Road starts at an intersection with the Bruce Highway in Marlborough. It runs southwest and west as Marlborough Road through the localities of Marlborough and Mount Gardiner, where it passes the exit to Duaringa–Apis Creek Road to the south.
[2] [3] It runs from the Bruce Highway on the Deeragun / Mount Low midpoint to Townsville Port Road (Southern Port Road / Benwell Road) in South Townsville, a distance of 19.4 kilometres (12.1 mi). [9] The road starts at an intersection with the Bruce Highway on the Deeragun / Mount Low midpoint. It is signed as State Route 14.
The Bruce Highway runs from Bald Hills to Cairns in Queensland, Australia. It is a state-controlled road, subdivided into fourteen sections for administrative and funding purposes. It is a state-controlled road, subdivided into fourteen sections for administrative and funding purposes.