hours, most interchanges along the single-carriageway section of the Motorway acquire congestion. To remedy this problem, Main Roads Queensland are currently planning and constructing various new sections of the Motorway, under a plan called SM2032. These constructions mainly include upgrading to dual carriageway along the more populated areas through which the motorway passes; other constructions included the Maroochy River Bridge duplication (completed in 2008) and various safety measures throughout the entire length of the motorway. As of 2010, the entire freeway from Mooloolaba to Pacific Paradise is four lane dual-carriageway motorway. There is still a two-lane section between Kawana Way and Nicklin Way, and north of Pacific Paradise is also still two lanes. A A$320 million project to upgrade the intersection of the Sunshine Motorway with the Nicklin Way is planned for construction from 2022 to 2025. Planning has begun (in 2021) to upgrade a section of the Sunshine Motorway from Pacific Paradise to Coolum Beach from two lanes to four. A budget of $1.75 million has been allocated for this planning. A project to plan for a future upgrade of the interchange to Maroochy Boulevard, at a cost of $1.6 million, was to complete in late 2022. Major intersections NOTE: The Sunshine Motorway is not a motorway standard road. It is an inter-urban road with many intersections of varying degrees of importance, depending how this is measured. In addition to the 11 intersections listed below there are about 6 more not listed, which may be considered by some readers to be major intersections. See also Freeways in Australia Freeways in Sunshine Coast References Highways in Queensland Sunshine Coast, Queensland Two-lane expressways Former toll roads in Australia Articles containing potentially dated statements from 2008