Brisbane Inner City Bypass (ICB) Pictures

Cool, ive never actually been on the ICB, so these pictures show something really good. The old Hale street sections are looking abit shoddy though, the rest is pretty cool.

I haven't actually ever used the Kingsford Smith Drive end of the Inner City Bypass before.

Overhead gantry signage is all that is missing from the ICB...

nagelixin said:

Overhead gantry signage is all that is missing from the ICB...

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And proper a proper entry on the milton end. Hale street/boomerang street or whatever it is is too narrow and cramped and just a mess.

Instead of the Hale Street Bridge, it should be a tunnel that pops out after all the tight corners. This would allow the initial section to become a main road and not an arterial road.

There are so many problems with that area around Hale Street and Coronation Dr. just from looking at a map...



Even the interchange to the north of this map is confusing, though (barely) passable.

Edit: the point I've labelled 'black spot' is nowhere near as bad as it looks on the map having looked at Google Earth. Still, that interchange is most definitely made of fail.

That area is fine. It is the area just to the north of the top of the map that is crap.

I don't know if I'd agree in saying that area is "fine". I drive the Riverside Expressway onto Hale St and eventually the ICB every afternoon. The merge there with Coronation Drive, the ramp from the Riverside Expressway and the Milton Road onramp is a huge mess. 3/4 of the traffic banked back on the Riverside Expressway is due to this crappy merge.

What they need to do (which I think I remember seeing was an option when the Hale Street bridge is built - could be wrong?) is remove the Caxton Street onramp heading north, and extend the Milton Road onramp up further so it joins with the Kelvin Grove Road offramp in one continuous lane, so the merge isn't so tight. That way, each road feeding onto Hale St (Riverside Expressway, Coronation Drive/Hale Street bridge and Milton Road) will have one dedicated lane entering onto Hale Street, which I think would make a huge difference.

But I definately agree with you when you say the part further north is shocking - they really need to sort that out, and fast!

KJBrissy said:

That area is fine. It is the area just to the north of the top of the map that is crap.

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