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]
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).
There are a number of heritage-listed sites on Ipswich Road in Annerley. In the Annerley Junction area are:
413 Ipswich Road: Tram substation (part of the infrastructure of Brisbane's former tramways, now used as a hotel restaurant)[4]
413 Ipswich Road: Fig tree (the sole survivor of an avenue of fig trees planted on Ipswich Road in Annerley between 1911 and 1955)[5]
444 Ipswich Road: Police Station (built in 1925 and still in use as a police station)[6]
448 Ipswich Road: Annerley Library & Community Centre (designed in 1956 by architect James Birrell)[7]
Further along in the Chardon's Corner area (the intersection with Cracknell Road where the Chardons Hotel stands), there are more heritage-listed sites:
616 Ipswich Road: Mary Immaculate Catholic Church (a notable city landmark due to its prominent position and its imposing interwar Gothic architecture)[8]
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).
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.
^Ford, Garry (2008). Carolyn Fitz-Gerald (ed.). "Trams, tramways and termini". Brisbane:Water, Power and Industry Paper No. 20. Kelvin Grove, Queensland: Brisbane History Group: 64. ISBN978-0-9751793-3-8.