Logan Road, allocated state routes 95 and 30, is a major road in Brisbane, Queensland. It runs 18 kilometres (11 mi) from Springwood in Logan City to Woolloongabba in Brisbane, with most of the route signed as state route 95. The route was formerly the main route to the Gold Coast from Brisbane, until the South East Freeway (now Pacific Motorway) was built.
William Slack, a local cattle grazier, took his stock along a possible Aboriginal track which became known to the locals as Slacks Track.[1] Later the track became a road and then highway.
The route takes its name from Captain Patrick Logan, one of the founders of the Moreton Bay convict settlement. Its route is similar to that of the Pacific Motorway and can be accessed directly via exit numbers 20 and 14 as well as by the Gateway Motorway.
The first electric trams travelled along the road in 1897.[2] The service ran into the city to its terminus at the southern side of the Victoria Bridge.[3] Between 1953 and 1969, electric trams ran along Logan Road between Woolloongabba and Mount Gravatt.
At the northern end of Logan Road is the Woolloongabba Fiveways. This intersection was one of the busiest in the city, requiring a policeman to coordinate rail and road traffic.[4]
Logan Road joined the Southeast Freeway to the Pacific Highway, forming the major outbound route south from Brisbane, until a segment of Pacific Motorway was completed between Logan Road at Mt Gravatt and Springwood at Rochedale Road to bypass it in 1985.
Major intersections
The road is in the Brisbane local government area, except the last 3.3 kilometres, which are in Logan City.
North–west end of Logan Road (no route number) No vehicle access between Logan Road and the Main Street / Ipswich Road / Stanley Street intersection at this location.
Southbound traffic on Logan Road meets Wellington Road at a T junction, with no right turn towards the continuation of Logan Road. Thus traffic wishing to continue south on Logan Road must approach this intersection from one of the side streets. Logan Road continues south as State Route 95.
Logan Road continues south–east with no route number. State Route 95 continues east on Old Cleveland Road, and then south on Montague Street to rejoin Logan Road.
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South–eastern concurrency terminus with State Route 22.
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Montague Street (State Route 95) – north – Old Cleveland Road
Logan Road continues south-east as State Route 95.
Underwood Road is the boundary between the City of Brisbane and Logan City local government areas at this point. Logan Road (State Route 95) continues south into Logan City. Underwood, Rochedale South, Slacks Creek, Woodridge, and Springwood (mentioned in this and/or subsequent intersections) are in Logan City.