Stanley Street, Brisbane

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Stanley Street
	South Brisbane - Woolloongabba
Queensland Roads
Length	6km
General direction	West-East
From	South Brisbane
To	Coorparoo
Places passed	Woolloongabba

Stanley Street is a major street in Brisbane, Queensland. It caries the designation state route 41 for the entirety of its length and state route 10 between the Vulture Street and Annerley Road intersections. For the majority of its length the road is a one-way carriageway. The route is a major connector between the Southern and Eastern suburbs and South Brisbane. For the majority of The street passes directly to the south of The Gabba and runs directly through the Mater Hospital precinct.

Stanley Street is accessible via exit 2 on the Pacific Motorway.

[edit] History

Stanley Street used to continue past the Vulture Street intersection, and follow the Brisbane River north to Kurilpa Point. At this time South Brisbane was an industrial area. The road between Melbourne Street and Vulture Street was removed to make way for the construction of the Expo '88 World's Fair precinct. The precinct was converted to South Bank Parklands after the Expo. At this time small sections of the route north of Vulture Street retained the name Stanley Street.

In 2006, with the construction of the Queensland Gallery of Modern Art, the section of road still named Stanley street which tunneled under the Queensland Art Gallery was renamed Cultural Centre Tunnel and the road to the north was removed to make way for construction. A new section of road slightly to the west of the old road was built and named Stanley Place.

Of the old Stanley Street in South Brisbane, only a section about 100m long, running alongside the Maritime Museum remains. The remainder has been built over by the Gallery of Modern Art and South Bank Parklands, rebuilt as a pedestrian plaza as part of the Parklands (Stanley Street Plaza and the Cultural Forecourt); or renamed.