| M3 Inner City Bypass |
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| Length: | 5 km (3 mi) |
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| From: | Albion |
| To: | Brisbane |
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| Primary destinations: |
Bowen Hills |
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Highways in Australia |
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M3 Inner City Bypass (ICB) is a major motorway standard road in Brisbane, Australia. The 4.5km bypass is north of the city. Bypassing the Brisbane central business district, it connects Brisbane’s Pacific Motorway and Go Between Bridge at Hale Street to Kingsford Smith Drive, the Clem Jones Tunnel and Lutwyche Road following the Exhibition railway line for the majority of its length.
The route is marked as the M3 from the western part of the route, up until the Horace Street interchange.
The motorway cost $220m to complete and incorporates a total of six lanes, four tunnels, 18 bridges and was the largest infrastructure engineering project undertaken in Queensland for decades. The route also includes a 350m long tunnel under the RNA Showgrounds. There is no toll for use of this roadway.
The ICB, built by the Brisbane City Council, is considered one of the most successful road projects in Brisbane, completed well before schedule, on budget, and to date is one of the most used road corridors in the city. Significant congestion occurs in lanes heading towards Hale Street at peak times, this has resulted in a nickname of the "Inner City Car Park".
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The Inner City Bypass was built in 3 stages:
| Inner City Bypass | |||
| Northbound exits | Distance to Brisbane Airport (km) |
Distance to Pacific Motorway (km) |
Southbound exits |
| End Inner City Bypass continues as Kingsford Smith Drive to Pinkenba |
9 | 5 | Start Inner City Bypass continues from Kingsford Smith Drive |
| Brisbane CBD Breakfast Creek Road |
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| no exit | 9.3 | 4.7 | Albion, Virginia Sandgate Road |
| Virginia, Redcliffe, Brisbane CBD Abbotsford Road |
9.6 | 4.4 | no exit |
| FERNY GROVE RAIL LINE | 10.1 | 3.9 | FERNY GROVE RAIL LINE |
| EXHIBITION RAIL LINE | 10.3 | 3.7 | EXHIBITION RAIL LINE |
| Logan, Gold Coast Clem Jones Tunnel |
10.5 | 3.5 | Logan, Gold Coast Clem Jones Tunnel |
| Bald Hills, Sunshine Coast Lutwyche Road |
10.7 | 3.3 | continues as |
| Herston, Brisbane CBD Herston Road |
11.4 | 2.6 | no exit |
| Victoria Park Road | 12.7 | 1.3 | Brisbane CBD, Ferny Grove, Mount Samson Kelvin Grove Road |
| Ferny Grove, Mount Samson Kelvin Grove Road |
12.9 | 1.1 | no exit |
| Ashgrove, Mount Glorious, Brisbane CBD Musgrave Road |
13 | 1 | Hale Street |
| no exit | 13.2 | 0.8 | Brisbane CBD, Paddington Caxton Street |
| Mount Coot-tha, Ipswich Milton Road (Access from Pacific Motorway only) |
13.5 | 0.5 | Brisbane CBD, Mount Coot-tha, Ipswich Milton Road |
| Little Cribb Street (Access from Pacific Motorway only) |
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| Start Inner City Bypass | 14 | 0 | End Inner City Bypass |
| Traffic Lights (clockwise from bypass) Pacific Motorway to Logan Central (26km) and Gold Coast (79km) Coronation Drive to Indooroopilly (6km) |
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Although not constructed as part of the TransApex project, the ICB is an inaugural part of the future connection of tunnels and other planned urban motorways within the city. The Inner City Bypass will be connected to the Airport Link, Brisbane Tollways. The Airport Link is expected to be completed by mid 2012.[1]
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