The Department of Transport and Main Roads (TMR) is progressing the Bruce Highway Western Alternative (BHWA) project – an early planning initiative to identify and protect a corridor for the future Moreton Motorway.

The future Moreton Motorway will extend between Elimbah and Bald Hills. It is a key long-term project to support forecast population growth, providing a new transport route to keep communities connected to homes, jobs, education, and essential services.

The future motorway will improve the resilience of the existing transport network, reduce congestion on the Bruce Highway, and help maintain the Bruce Highway’s role as Queensland's primary long-distance travel and freight route.

Planning, community consultation, and protection of the future Moreton Motorway corridor is progressing in stages. To date:

• Stages 1 and 2 (Moodlu to Narangba): Corridor protection is already in place for 22km.
• Stage 4 (Elimbah to Moodlu): Corridor protection will only progress for the section between Twin View Road at Elimbah and the D'Aguilar Highway at Moodlu. Corridor protection will be completed in early 2026.
• Stage 3 (Narangba to Bald Hills): Planning will progress once corridor protection for Elimbah to Moodlu is complete. Early feedback continues to be invited.

Staged construction of the future Moreton Motorway is not expected to commence for many years. Protecting the corridor early provides certainty for the community and industry, and ensures the land is available when needed.

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