. William Slack, a local cattle grazier, took his stock along a possible Aboriginal track which became known to the locals as Slacks Track. Later the track became a road and then highway. The route takes its name from Captain
Patrick Logan, one of the founders of the
Moreton Bay convict settlement. Its route is similar to that of the Pacific Motorway and can be accessed directly via exit numbers 20 and 14 as well as by the
Gateway Motorway. The first electric trams travelled along the road in 1897. The service ran into the city to its terminus at the southern side of the
Victoria Bridge. Between 1953 and 1969, electric
trams ran along Logan Road between
Woolloongabba and
Mount Gravatt. At the northern end of Logan Road is the
Woolloongabba Fiveways. This intersection was one of the busiest in the city, requiring a policeman to coordinate rail and road traffic. Logan Road initially ended at the Brisbane City boundary, where it became the Pacific Highway. Following the opening of the final section of the South-East Freeway (now Pacific Motorway) in 1985, it was extended to meet it at Springwood. ==Major intersections==