Inner City Bypass, Brisbane
| Inner City Bypass Queensland | |
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| Inner City Bypass in Brisbane | |
| General information | |
| Type | Highway |
| Length | 5 km (3.1 mi) |
| Route number(s) |
 M3 |
| Major junctions | |
| North end | Albion |
| South end | Brisbane |
| Location(s) | |
| Major suburbs | Bowen Hills |
| Highway system | |
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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, Legacy Way Tunnel, Clem Jones Tunnel, AirportLink 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, to 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.
Construction
The Inner City Bypass was built in 3 stages:
- Stage 1 – Hale Street to Campbell Street which opened during November 2001
- Stage 2 – Campbell Street to Abbotsford Road which opened during February 2002
- Stage 3 – Abbotsford Road to Kingsford Smith Drive which opened during July 2002
Exits and Interchanges
The road is within the local government area of the City of Brisbane.
| Location | km | mi | Destinations | Notes | |||
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| Inner City Bypass (Hale Street) turns east on Coronation Drive for Pacific Motorway toward Brisbane, Logan and Gold Coast, west on Coronation Drive for Toowong, or continues south across the Go Between Bridge for South Brisbane. | |||||||
| Milton | 0.5 | 0.31 |  Milton Road – Brisbane, Toowong, Ipswich | No northbound exit to Brisbane. | |||
| 0.8 | 0.50 | Caxton Street – Paddington | No northbound exit. | ||||
| Paddington | 1 | 0.62 |  Musgrave Road - to  Kelvin Grove Road | No southbound exit. | |||
| Kelvin Grove | 1.3 | 0.81 | Victoria Park Road – Kelvin Grove | Left-in/left out. No southbound exit. | |||
| 1.3 | 0.81 | Kelvin Grove Road – Brisbane | Southbound exit only. | ||||
| Herston | 2.6 | 1.6 |  Herston Road – Kelvin Grove, Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital, Victoria Park Golf Course | Northbound exit only. | |||
| Bowen Hills | 3.3 | 2.1 |  Lutwyche Road  Airport Link Tunnel – Sunshine Coast, Brisbane Airport | Inner City Bypass becomes State Route 25. | |||
| 3.5 | 2.2 | Clem Jones Tunnel – Gold Coast | |||||
| 4.4 | 2.7 |  Abbotsford Road – Brisbane | Northbound exit and southbound entrance | ||||
| Albion | 4.7 | 2.9 | Sandgate Road – Sandgate | Southbound exit and northbound entrance | |||
| 5 | 3.1 |  Breakfast Creek Road – Fortitude Valley, Brisbane, Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital | |||||
| Inner City Bypass becomes Kingsford Smith Drive. | |||||||
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi
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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 has also been connected to the Airport Link and the Legacy Way tolled tunnels.
The Airport Link was completed in mid-2012[1] and the Legacy Way in late June 2015.
See also
References
- ↑ 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
