Inner City Bypass, Brisbane

Inner City Bypass
Queensland
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
Highways in Australia
National HighwayFreeways in Australia
Highways in Queensland

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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, 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, 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.

ICB viaduct over the Breakfast Creek

Construction

The Inner City Bypass was built in 3 stages:

Exits and Interchanges

The road is within the local government area of the City of Brisbane.

LocationkmmiDestinationsNotes
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.
Milton0.50.31 Milton Road  Brisbane, Toowong, IpswichNo northbound exit to Brisbane.
0.80.50Caxton Street   PaddingtonNo northbound exit.
Paddington10.62 Musgrave Road - to
Kelvin Grove Road
No southbound exit.
Kelvin Grove1.30.81Victoria Park Road   Kelvin GroveLeft-in/left out. No southbound exit.
1.30.81 Kelvin Grove Road   BrisbaneSouthbound exit only.
Herston2.61.6Herston Road   Kelvin Grove, Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital, Victoria Park Golf CourseNorthbound exit only.
Bowen Hills3.32.1 Lutwyche Road
Airport Link Tunnel  Sunshine Coast, Brisbane Airport
Inner City Bypass becomes State Route 25.
3.52.2 Clem Jones Tunnel   Gold Coast
4.42.7 Abbotsford Road   BrisbaneNorthbound exit and southbound entrance
Albion4.72.9 Sandgate Road   SandgateSouthbound exit and northbound entrance
53.1 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

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

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Coordinates: 27°27′10.90″S 153°01′27.61″E / 27.4530278°S 153.0243361°E / -27.4530278; 153.0243361

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