Inner City Bypass, Brisbane

Inner City Bypass
Queensland
Inner City Bypass in Brisbane
General information
Type Highway
Length 5 km (3 mi)
Route number(s) M3
Major junctions
North end Albion
South end Brisbane
Location(s)
Major suburbs Bowen Hills
Highway system
Highways in Australia
National Highway • Freeways in Australia
Highways in Queensland

M3 Inner City Bypass (ICB) is a major motorway standard road in Brisbane, Queensland. The 4.5 kilometres (2.8 mi) 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".

ICB viaduct over the Breakfast Creek

Construction

The Inner City Bypass was built in 3 stages:

Exits and Interchanges

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
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)
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)

Future interconnectivity

Although not constructed as part of the TransApex project, the ICB is an integral 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 and the Legacy Way two new Brisbane tollways.

The Airport Link was completed in mid-2012[1] and the Legacy Way by 2015.

See also

References

  1. ↑ North-South Bypass Tunnel, Brisbane, Australia Road Traffic Technology.
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Coordinates: 27°27′10.90″S 153°01′27.61″E / 27.4530278°S 153.0243361°E

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