Traffic is flowing on six lanes of the Pacific Motorway (M1) between Varsity Lakes and Burleigh, with the first package of works of a $1 billion project now open.
The M1 is Queensland’s busiest road, seeing more than 210,000 vehicles regularly driving it on its busiest days.
Boral supplied more than 70,000 tonnes of asphalt to the Varsity Lakes to Burleigh upgrade, which was completed in 2022.
The works in this section included extending and relocating the Exit 85 northbound off-ramp by 250 metres, adding a fourth northbound lane between Reedy Creek (Exit 85) and Burleigh (Exit 87), and installing smart motorways technologies to help reduce 'stop-start' travel.
When widening the M1, the concrete surface was also replaced with stone mastic asphalt for a quieter and more easily maintained surface.
The project used about 13% recycled asphalt product, a reprocessed pavement containing asphalt and aggregates that reduced the amount of virgin aggregates and bitumen required.