Gympie Road is a major road in the northern suburbs of

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, Queensland, Australia. The road forms part of the main road route from the Brisbane Central Business District (CBD) to the northern suburbs, Sunshine Coast and east coast of

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. Gympie Road is designated A3 from Lutwyche Road, Kedron to the Gympie Arterial Road, Bald Hills. The road then continues as State Route 58 to Dayboro Road, Petrie. Gympie Road is named after the town of Gympie, north of the Sunshine Coast.

Landmarks

Gympie Road is lined with many shops, fast food outlets, restaurants, car yards, factories, motels, caravan parks, parks and schools including: * Kedron Park Hotel (est. 1881) *

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Lutwyche Cemetery Lutwyche Cemetery is a cemetery located at Kedron, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. It opened in 1878 and saw its first burial in the same year. It is located at the corner of Gympie and Kitchener Roads, approximately ten kilometres north of B ...

(est. 1878) * Top Taste * Edinburgh Castle Hotel (est. 1868) *

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* Marchant Park *

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* Bald Hills Primary School * St Paul's School * Pine Rivers Park * Strathpine Centre *

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* Strathpine Primary School

History

Cobb and Co coach, Old Gympie Road, Kallangur

The first private land sale occurred on Gympie Road near Kedron Brook in 1857. Farms, slaughter yards and tanneries were common sights along Gympie Road prior to World War I. The tram line from the

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was extended to Kedron Park Hotel in 1914,

in 1925 and Chermside in 1947. The tram service was closed in 1968 and replaced with diesel buses. In 1922, there was a proposal to build

Anzac Avenue Anzac Avenue is a heritage-listed major arterial road lined with trees in the Moreton Bay Region, Queensland, Australia. It runs from Petrie to Redcliffe, with most of the route signed as state route 71. The route was formerly the main ro ...

as a memorial to those who died in

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. The memorial avenue was to run from

to Redcliffe (which, at that time, was not connected to Brisbane by road, only by sea). This proposal would use and rename Gympie Road for the northward part of the route and then extend it eastwards towards Redcliffe. However, in its final form, Anzac Avenue commenced at

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rather than Brisbane and so Gympie Road was only renamed from Petrie onwards (which is why Gympie Road terminates at Petrie today). The first segment of Anzac Avenue from Petrie to Kallangur was formerly Gympie Road. However, at Kallangur, Anzac Avenue left Gympie Road to go east, leaving parts of Gympie Road going north through Kallangur to Burpengary disconnected (as a name) from the Brisbane to Petrie section. The segment from Kallangur to Burpengary was later renamed Old Gympie Road. The first integrated

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in Queensland opened on the corner of Gympie Road and Hamilton Road, Chermside in 1957. Originally called the Chermside Drive-in Shopping Centre, it has extended on many occasions and is now

. The route was formerly part of the

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and carried the designation National Route 1 until the

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opened in 1986. The route has since had the designations of Alt Route 1 and Metroad 3.

Future

TransLink is planning for the Kedron to Bracken Ridge section of the Northern Busway that will generally follow Gympie Road.

Interfaces with Airport Link tunnel

Gympie Road has the following interfaces with the Airport Link tunnel: * Northbound carriageway - traffic from either direction exiting the Airport Link can enter Gympie Road about 650 metres north of its southern end. * Southbound carriageway - traffic wishing to proceed in either direction on Airport Link can exit Gympie Road about 500 metres from its southern end. * Southern end (intersection with Kedron Park Road) - traffic proceeding north from Lutwyche Road and wishing to travel east on Airport Link can cross the southbound carriageway under traffic light control and exit Gympie Road at its southern end.

Upgrade

A project to upgrade the intersection with Anzac Avenue and Dayboro Road at Petrie, at a cost of $30 million, was completed in March 2022.

Major intersections

References

External links

Brisbane Tramway Museum - Tramway Time LineTransLink - Northern Busway - Kedron to Bracken Ridge
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