Ipswich Road, Brisbane

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Ipswich Road

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Ipswich Road in Woolloongabba, 2024
Ipswich Road, Brisbane
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Ipswich Road
Coordinates
General information
TypeRoad
Length6.5 km (4.0 mi)
Route number(s)
  • AUS Alphanumeric Route A7.svg A7
  • Australian state route 15.svg State Route 15
Major junctions
NE endAustralian state route 15.svg Main Street, Woolloongabba
 
SW endAUS Alphanumeric Route M7.svg Ipswich Motorway, Rocklea
Location(s)
Major suburbs Annerley, Moorooka

Ipswich Road is major road in the City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. The road has been an important transport route since the 19th century when it connected the towns of Brisbane and Ipswich. In the 1990s, the section from Moorooka in Brisbane to Riverview in Ipswich was replaced by the Ipswich Motorway. [1]

Contents

Logan Road, Pacific Motorway, and Beaudesert Road (Mount Lindesay Highway) are the other major roads in the south of Brisbane.

Woolloongabba

Ipswich Road begins at the Woolloongabba Fiveways intersection. From there Ipswich Road heads south towards Ipswich, Main Street heads north (to the tip of Kangaroo Point), Stanley Street goes east and west and Logan Road heads south-east towards Logan City.

The heritage-listed Norman Hotel is positioned on 102 Ipswich Road at Woolloongabba. The establishment was built in 1889, opened in 1890 and quickly became a local landmark. [2] [3]

The Clem Jones Tunnel has an entry and exit point on Ipswich Road at Woolloongabba, the same place that the Pacific Motorway crosses over the road. Also in this vicinity the Eastern Busway crosses Ipswich Road.

Buranda

The Princess Alexandra Hospital is located on Ipswich Road at Buranda, as is the Buranda Shopping Centre (formerly the Ipswich Road tram depot).

Annerley

Ipswich Road near the junction of Annerley Road in Annerley, Queensland, 2009 Ipswich Rd at Annerley Junction, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia 090617.JPG
Ipswich Road near the junction of Annerley Road in Annerley, Queensland, 2009

At Annerley, Ipswich Road intersects with Annerley Road (formerly Boggo Road) at the Annerley Junction.

There are a number of heritage-listed sites on Ipswich Road in Annerley. In the Annerley Junction area are:

Further along in the Chardon's Corner area (the intersection with Cracknell Road where the Chardons Hotel stands), there are more heritage-listed sites:

Yeronga

In Yeronga the road passes the heritage-listed Yeronga Memorial Park and the heritage-listed Yeronga Fire Station. [10] [11]

The Ipswich Road is the boundary between Annerley and Yeronga in the vicinity of the Yeronga Memorial Park (Annerley being on the east, Yeronga on the west).

Moorooka

At Moorooka the major arterial road called Beaudesert Road branches to the south east through the industrial suburbs of Salisbury and Acacia Ridge continuing on to the northern outskirts of Logan City. It is when Beaudesert Road crosses the Logan Motorway that Beaudesert Road becomes the Mount Lindesay Highway, which continues through to Logan, Jimboomba, Beaudesert and Mount Lindesay and beyond to the Queensland–New South Wales border.

South from this intersection the road is lined with numerous car sale yards and is known as the Moorooka Magic Mile of Motors.

Rocklea

At Rocklea the road becomes the upgraded Ipswich Motorway after crossing over the Beenleigh railway line.

Road traffic

At morning peak times the road can be congested anywhere from Annerley towards the city. According to the Brisbane City Council compared to 2007 rates, by 2016 the road is expected to carry an extra 12,000 cars each day.[ citation needed ] The road carried an average of 52,299 vehicles per day between July and December 2014. [12]

Trams

The last tram service in Brisbane took route S34 along Ipswich Road into Tottenham Road and the Ipswich Road Depot on 14 April 1969. [13]

Major intersections

The entire road is in the Brisbane local government area.

LocationkmmiDestinationsNotes
Woolloongabba 00.0Australian state route 15.svg Main Street (State Route 15) – north – Kangaroo Point /
Australian state route 41.svg Stanley Street (State Route 41) – west – South Brisbane /
east – East Brisbane /
Logan Road – south–east – Greenslopes
Northern end of Ipswich Road (State Route 15)
No access to Logan Road from Ipswich Road at this intersection.
0.80.50AUS Alphanumeric Route M7.svg Clem Jones Tunnel (M7) – north – Bowen Hills No northbound entry from M7. No southbound exit to M7.
Ipswich road continues south as A7.
1.20.75Okeefe Street – east – Greenslopes
Eastern Busway – west – Boggo Road busway station
Okeefe Street provides access to Logan Road (State Route 95) and
Old Cleveland Road (State Route 22)
Woolloongabba –
Annerley boundary
1.60.99Cornwall Street – east – Greenslopes
west – Fairfield, Dutton Park
Cornwall Street (to east) provides access to Pacific Motorway
Annerley 2.71.7Australian state route 10.svg Annerley Road (State Route 10) – north–west – Dutton ParkState Route 10 northern concurrency terminus
3.22.0Australian state route 10.svg Waterton Street (State Route 10) – east – Tarragindi
Venner Road – west – Yeronga, Fairfield
State Route 10 southern concurrency terminus
Moorooka 4.72.9Beaudesert Road – south–east – MoorookaNo southbound entry from Beaudesert Road. No northbound exit to Beaudesert Road.
6.54.0Kenway Street – east – MoorookaSouthern end of Ipswich Road.
A7 continues south as Ipswich Motorway
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi

See also

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