Gympie Arterial Road | |
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General information | |
Type | Freeway |
Length | 4.7 km (2.9 mi) |
Route number(s) |
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Major junctions | |
South end | Gympie Road Carseldine, Queensland |
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North end | Bruce Highway Bald Hills, Queensland |
Location(s) | |
Major suburbs / towns | Bald Hills |
Highway system | |
The Gympie Arterial Road is a freeway in the northern suburbs of Brisbane in Queensland, Australia. The road starts in Carseldine at Gympie Road and terminates at the Gateway Motorway where it becomes the Bruce Highway. It is three lanes in each direction from Carseldine to the Strathpine Road intersection, and two lanes to the Gateway Motorway.
In 2000, a lane duplication was completed and an exit lane was closed at the Strathpine Road off-ramp, with 2 new lanes opened along with traffic lights in its place.
A project to improve the intersection with Strathpine Road, at a cost of $30 million, was completed in August 2022. [1]
A project to upgrade the Linkfield Road intersection, at a cost of $125 million, was starting the design stage early in 2022. [2]
The entire road is in the Brisbane local government area. [3]
Location | km | mi | Destinations | Notes | |
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Carseldine | 0 | 0.0 | Gympie Road – north – Bald Hills / south – Aspley | Southern end of Gympie Arterial Road (M3) No northbound entry from Bald Hills. No southbound entry or exit. | |
Carseldine – Bald Hills boundary | 0.75 | 0.47 | – Linkfield Road (State Route 40) – west – Brendale east – Bracken Ridge, Fitzgibbon | No northbound exit. Previous northbound exit (on Gympie Road) provides access to Linkfield Road. | |
Bald Hills | 2.3 | 1.4 | – Strathpine Road (State Route 58) – west – Strathpine Hoyland Street – east – Bracken Ridge | Provides access via Bracken Ridge to Gateway Motorway | |
4.7 | 2.9 | – Gateway Motorway (M1) – south–east – Deagon | Northern end of Gympie Arterial Road. No northbound exit. | ||
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi |
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