Inner City Bypass
| Inner City Bypass | |
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| Basic data | |
| Operator: | Dept. of Transport and Main Roads |
| Start of the street: |
 Kingsford Smith DriveBreakfast Creek Road ( Brisbane ) ( QLD ) ( 27 ° 26 ′ S , 153 ° 3 ′ E ) |
| End of street: |
M3 Pacific Highway Coronation Drive Hale Street ( Brisbane ) ( QLD ) ( 27 ° 28 ′ S , 153 ° 1 ′ E ) |
| Overall length: | 5 km |
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Map with all coordinates: The Inner City Bypass (ICB) is an urban freeway in Brisbane in the southeast of the Australian state of Queensland . The 4.5 km long bypass is located northwest of the city center. It connects the Pacific Motorway (also M3) and the Go Between Bridge in the southwest on Hale Street with Kingsford Smith Drive (S25), the Clem Jones Tunnel (M7) and Lutwyche Road (A3) in the northeast. For most of the route it follows the Exhibition Railway Line .
The southwestern part of the ICB to the intersection with Horace Street has been designated as M3.
The city highway cost AU $ 220 million, has six lanes, has 4 tunnels and 18 bridges and was the largest infrastructure project in Queensland for decades. Use is free of charge.
The ICB, commissioned by Brisbane City Council to build, is considered one of the most successful road projects in the city. It was completed much earlier than planned, stayed on budget and is now one of the busiest streets in Brisbane. At peak times there are long traffic jams in the lanes towards Hale Street, which has led to the nickname Inner City Car Park among the population .
construction
The ICB was built in three stages:
- Stage 1 - Hale Street to Campbell Street (completed November 2001)
- Stage 2 - Campbell Street to Abbotsford Road (completed February 2002)
- Stage 3 - Abbotsford Road to Kingsford Smith Drive (completed July 2002)
Exits and crossings
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Inner City Bypass
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| North exits | Distance to Brisbane Airport (km) |
Distance to Pacific Motorway (km) |
Exit to the south |
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End of Inner City Bypass and continue as Kingsford Smith Drive to Pinkenba 
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9 | 5 |
Beginning of Inner City Bypass on from Kingsford Smith Drive
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Downtown Brisbane Breakfast Creek Road
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| no exit | 9.3 | 4.7 | Albion, Virginia Sandgate Road |
| Virginia, Redcliffe, downtown Brisbane Abbotsford Road 
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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 
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10.5 | 3.5 | Logan, Gold Coast Clem Jones Tunnel
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| Bald Hills, Sunshine Coast Lutwyche Road 
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10.7 | 3.3 |
further than
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| Herston, downtown Brisbane Herston Road |
11.4 | 2.6 | no exit |
| Victoria Park Road | 12.7 | 1.3 |
Downtown Brisbane , Ferny Grove, Mount Samson 77 Kelvin Grove Road |
| Ferny Grove, Mount Samson 77 Kelvin Grove Road |
12.9 | 1.1 | no exit |
| Ashgrove, Mount Glorious, downtown Brisbane Musgrave Road 
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13 | 1 | Hale Street |
| no exit | 13.2 | 0.8 |
Downtown Brisbane , Paddington Caxton Street |
| Mount Coot-tha, Ipswich Milton Road (only accessible from Pacific Motorway)  |
13.5 | 0.5 |
Downtown Brisbane , Mount Coot-tha, Ipswich Milton Road
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Little Cribb Street (only accessible from Pacific Motorway) |
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Start of the Inner City Bypass
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14th | 0 |
End of Inner City Bypass
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  Traffic light (clockwise from Bypass) Pacific Motorway to Logan Central (16 miles) and Gold Coast (79 miles) Coronation Drive to Indooroopilly (6 miles)
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Future road connections
Although not part of the TransApex project, the ICB is an indispensable part of the future tunnel connection and other planned city highways. The Inner City Bypass is to be connected to the Airport Link . The Airport Link should be completed in mid-2012.
source
- Steve Parish: Australian Touring Atlas . Steve Parish Publishing. Archerfield QLD 2007, ISBN 978-1-74193-232-4 , pp. 2 + 3.