Mount Lindesay Highway

The Mount Lindesay Highway is an Australian national highway located in Queensland, also known as National Route 13.[1] 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 approximately 116 kilometres (72 mi) in length.[2] 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.

Mount Lindesay Highway

Mount Lindesay Road - Beaudesert Road

Queensland
Mount Lindesay Highway (green and black)
General information
TypeHighway
Length116 km (72 mi)
Route number(s) National Route 13
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), 15km east of Woodenbong, New South Wales NSW/Qld Border
Location(s)
Major settlementsJimboomba, Beaudesert, Rathdowney
Highway system

Location and route
Browns Plains, 2014

Until 1954, the route was part of the New England Highway between Sydney and Brisbane. However, the opening of the road from Tenterfield to Wallangarra created a better road for the New England Highway and this route was renamed the Mount Lindesay Highway.[3] Until 1977, the Mount Lindesay Highway as a named road extended beyond the Queensland – New South Wales border to Tenterfield but the New South Wales section of the road, which still includes some unsealed portions, was decommissioned as a highway by the New South Wales Government due to very low traffic volumes. Approximately 8 kilometres (5 mi) south of the Queensland – New South Wales border the decommissioned part of the Mount Lindesay Highway intersects the northern end of the Summerland Way, known as New South Wales route B91, which runs south to Casino and then on to Grafton.

South of Rathdowney the highway becomes very winding as it climbs the McPherson Range. However it is a scenic road, and connects to the northern end of the Lions Road, a scenic drive between Innisplain and the Summerland Way just south of Roseberry[4], passing Mount Chinghee National Park, Mount Barney National Park and Border Ranges National Park on the way.

The highway is named 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.

Until the 1950s it 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. In the mid-1950s a sealed road was constructed west from Boonah through Cunninghams Gap to Warwick, and this supplanted the Mount Lindesay Highway as the main Brisbane – Sydney traffic route as far south as Tenterfield. This in turn has since the 1980s been supplanted by the Pacific Highway as the major Brisbane – Sydney route, as a result of extensive upgrading and deviations of the Pacific Highway.

Between 2007 and 2009 4.5 kilometres (2.8 mi) of the highway in the Logan City local government area was upgraded.[5] 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.

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
LGALocationkmmiDestinationsNotes
BrisbaneMoorooka00.0 Ipswich Road (State Route A7) - south-west - Rocklea /
north-east - Annerley		North-eastern end of National Route 13, which commences as Beaudesert Road,
and becomes Mount Lindesay Highway after it crosses the Logan Motorway
Moorooka / Salisbury boundary2.21.4 Evans Road (State Route 20) - east - Salisbury / west - Rocklea
Rocklea / Salisbury /
Archerfield / Coopers Plains boundary		4.02.5 Riawena Road (Metroad 2) - east - Robertson
Granard Road (Metroad 2) west - Rocklea
Archerfield / Coopers Plains boundary5.13.2 Boundary Road (State Route 56) - east - Sunnybank
Boundary Road - west - Archerfield
Acacia Ridge8.65.3 Bradman Street (State Route 11) - north - Acacia Ridge /
south - Algester
Acacia Ridge / Algester /
Sunnybank Hills boundary		9.15.7 Learoyd Road (State Route 30) - west - Willawong
Hellawell Road - east- Sunnybank Hills		Northern concurrency terminus with State Route 30
Sunnybank Hills / Calamvale boundary10.86.7 Compton Road (State Route 30) - east - StrettonSouthern concurrency terminus with State Route 30
Parkinson / Drewvale boundary15.09.3 Logan Motorway (State Route M2) - east - Drewvale /
west - Parkinson		Partial cloverleaf interchange.
National Route 13 becomes Mount Lindsay Highway from this point.
LoganParkinson / Hillcrest /
Browns Plains boundary		16.610.3 Browns Plains Road (State Route 94) - east - Browns Plains
Johnson Road - west - Hillcrest		Modified diamond interchange.
Park Ridge21.213.2 Park Ridge Road (State Route 64) - east - Park Ridge
Crest Road - west - Greenbank		Modified diamond interchange.
Munruben / North Maclean boundary28.017.4 Chambers Flat Road (State Route 59) - east - Chambers Flat
Crowson Lane - west - North Maclean		Modified diamond interchange.
Jimboomba34.921.7 Camp Cable Road (State Route 88) - east - Logan Village
Scenic RimBeaudesert57.635.8 Beaudesert Nerang Road (State Route 90) - east - TamborineNorthern concurrency terminus with State Route 90
58.036.0 Beaudesert Boonah Road (State Route 90) - west - BoonahSouthern concurrency terminus with State Route 90
Rathdowney90.055.9 Boonah Rathdowney Road (State Route 93) - west - Boonah
Mount Lindesay / Mount Barney boundary116.072.1 Summerland Way (NSW State Route B91)South-western end of National Route 13.
The road continues into New South Wales as the Summerland Way.
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi
  • Overpass and footbridge at Hillcrest, Logan City, 2014
  • Mount Lindesay, located adjacent to the Mount Lindesay Highway.
  • Maclean Bridge at North Maclean, 2014
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See also

References
  1. Queensland Government - Department of Transport and Main Roads - Maps
  2. Hema, Maps (2007). Australia Road and 4WD Atlas (Map). Eight Mile Plains Queensland: Hema Maps. pp. 6–7. ISBN 978-1-86500-456-3.
  3. "Munruben". Suburbs. Logan City Council. Retrieved 8 May 2014.
  4. Google (1 August 2017). "Roseberry, New South Wales" (Map). Google Maps. Google. Retrieved 1 August 2017.
  5. Gomez, Kevin (7 December 2009). "Mount Lindesay Highway upgrade in Logan completed". Road Construct. Reed Business Information. Archived from the original on 6 July 2011. Retrieved 16 July 2010.
  6. Google (1 August 2017). "Tamrookum Creek, Queensland" (Map). Google Maps. Google. Retrieved 1 August 2017.
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