Welcome to the Queensland Road Photo Gallery. Queensland covers an area of 1 730 648 square kilometres on the north-eastern part of Australia, and Queensland's Department of Main Roads administers 34 000 km of Queensland's state controlled road network, which is 20 per cent of the state's total road network and carries 80 per cent of traffic. (Information courtesy of Main Roads Queensland and Geoscience Australia)
In New South Wales, as is the case with all the other states in Australia, the roads are classified into different categories, and are also numbered for maintenance purposes and also navigation purposes. According to the Main Roads Queensland web site, Main Roads look after 34,000 km state-controlled roads - the highways and other main connecting roads in Queensland. State-controlled roads comprise about 20% of the state's total road network and carry around 70% of the state's traffic. Main Roads don't look after oads in Queensland that are local roads. Local governments are responsible for the other roads within their boundaries - the local suburban streets within towns and smaller connecting roads between towns. There is also the national highway network – the highways that the most crucial for transport around Australia. The federal government is responsible for funding any work on these roads. However, Main Roads manages the national highway network in Queensland on behalf of the federal government. That means, Main Roads plans, designs and supervises works on the national highway, but the federal government provides the funding. Route Numbering is designed to aid motorists navigate, using route shields as guidance. Queensland currently uses both a heirarchical system and an alpha-numeric system for route marking. In the metropoliain area of Brisbane, Metroads are the most important arterial roads, while in rural areas the National Highways and National Routes are the major highways. State Routes are the secondary ways of travel and other important urban routes that the Metroads dont cover, while Tourist Drives provide links from the State, National or Metroad routes to tourist areas / attractions. Queensland began converting to the alpha-numeric style of route marking in September 2000 with the introduction of M1 for the Pacific Motorway, a similar step has already been done in parts of Victoria and in Sydney NSW, plus across SA and Tasmania. To check out the routes used in Queensland and photos of them, click on one of the section names below:
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