{{Infobox Australian road | type = Motorway | road_name = Pacific Motorway | state = qld | state2 = nsw | image = Southeast freeway.jpg | caption = | length = 158 | direction_a = North | direction_b = South | end_a = Inner City Bypass | end_b = Pacific Highway | est = | through = | route = | former = | exits = Gateway Motorway Logan Motorway Gold Coast Highwayfor full list see exits. | show_links = yes }} The Pacific Motorway is a motorway in Australia between Brisbane, Queensland, and Brunswick Heads, New South Wales, through the New South Wales–Queensland border at Tweed Heads. The motorway starts at Coronation Drive at Milton in Brisbane, The Brisbane city section of the motorway is often referred to by its former name, the Riverside Expressway. The motorway is about long, and features eight traffic lanes with a speed limit between the M6 Logan Motorway and Smith Street Motorway and generally six or four lanes at on other sections. The motorway passes through the major tourist region of the Gold Coast, the destination for most of the vehicular traffic from Brisbane. More than A$2 billion was spent on the motorway between 1990 and 1998, including widening the road and safety measures. The motorway passes Gold Coast attractions such as Warner Bros. Movie World, Wet'n'Wild Water World, and Dreamworld, which are among the most popular theme parks in Australia. Since 2008 the motorway connects with the Tweed Heads bypass in New South Wales. There are also plans to progressively widen the four lane section from Nerang to Tugun to six lanes. The first section of this upgrade (Nerang to Varsity Lakes) was completed in May 2012. Planning is ongoing for the remaining section of the upgrade (Varsity Lakes to Tugun). The highest point of the motorway is on a cutting south of Brisbane (between Cudgera Creek Rd and Sleepy Hollow Rest Area). History Queensland section The first section, opened in Brisbane in November 1972, was originally known as the Southeast Freeway'''. It included the Riverside Expressway which was designed to alleviate traffic congestion in central Brisbane. The Southeast Freeway was connected to the Pacific Highway at Springwood in 1985. The Southeast Freeway was designated originally as the F3, but this nomenclature was removed in 1994. On 15 April 1996 it was announced that the Pacific Highway between the intersection with the