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The Tugun Bypass is a 7.5-kilometre-long (4.7 mi) stretch of motorway-grade road, bypassing through the suburb of Tugun on the Gold Coast, in Queensland, Australia.The speed limit on the Tugun bypass is 100 kilometres per hour (62 mph) and provides a high-speed motorway link between the Gold Coast and northern New South Wales, separating interstate vehicles from local traffic.
The M1 in Queensland, Australia, is a major urban road corridor. It connects the Sunshine Coast hinterland to Tugun , near the New South Wales and Queensland border, via the following corridors: Bruce Highway between Kybong and Bald Hills
Since the 1990s, the Coomera Connector corridor has been identified in various public planning documents and Gold Coast planning schemes. A joint 2015 study between the Department of Transport and Main Roads (TMR) and City of Gold Coast confirmed the corridor as a future strategic transport link that will relieve traffic congestion on the Pacific Motorway.
The Gold Coast attracts tourists from around the world and is one of Australia's leading tourist destinations. Most of the city is bypassed by the Pacific Motorway (M1 Motorway) which continues from Metroad 3 at Eight Mile Plains. The former route of the Pacific Highway through the Gold Coast has been renamed as the Gold Coast Highway.
The 1-kilometre-long (0.62 mi) older bypassed alignment along Tweed Heads Bypass (opened 1992) towards the border at Coolangatta was gazetted as Gold Coast Highway instead, extending the already existing Gold Coast Highway in Queensland, into New South Wales. [20] [21] The Tugun Bypass was handed over to the NSW government in June 2018. [22]
Gateway Motorway (M1) southeast – Gold Coast, Brisbane Airport / Gympie Arterial Road (M3) south – Brisbane: Southern highway terminus; partial Y interchange: no access between Gateway Motorway and Gympie Arterial Road: Moreton Bay: Griffin–Murrumba Downs boundary: 2.2: 1.4: 130: Dohles Rocks Road – Murrumba Downs, Griffin
Peak hour traffic on the Gold Coast. The Gold Coast is the largest non-capital city [1] and fastest growing city in Australia. [2] As a result, the Gold Coast has a wide range of public and private transport options from cars and bikes to buses, heavy rail and light rail. [3]
The Gold Coast Highway passes through all the coastal suburbs of the city and is the most direct route to most of the major holiday destinations on the Gold Coast. The Pacific Motorway (M1) interchange is 1.5 km south of the airport just over the NSW border in Tweed Heads West. The Pacific Motorway connects the city to Northern NSW, Gold Coast ...