Inner City Bypass, Brisbane
- Inner City Bypass, Brisbane
QLDRoad
name=Inner City Bypass
sign1=NSW M3.pnglength=5
direction=East-West
from=Albion
to=Kelvin Grove
via=Bowen Hills
M3 Inner City Bypass 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 at Hale Street to Kingsford Smith Drive 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 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".
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
Future interconnectivity
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 new North South Bypass Tunnel (NSBT) and the proposed Airport Link, Brisbane Tollways. The NSBT is scheduled to open in 2010.
ee also
*Freeways in Australia
*Freeways in Brisbane
References
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