Ipswich Road is major road in the

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, Australia. The road has been an important transport route since the 19th century when it connected the towns of

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and

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. In the 1990s, the section from

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in Brisbane to Riverview in Ipswich was replaced by the

Ipswich Motorway The Ipswich Motorway (M7) is a major road that connects Brisbane and Ipswich in South East Queensland, Australia. It commences at the junction of Ipswich Road and Granard Road and proceeds through to the M2 Logan Motorway interchange. It is t ...

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, Pacific Motorway, and Beaudesert Road (

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) are the other major roads in the south of Brisbane.

Woolloongabba

Ipswich Road begins at the

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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

heads south-east towards

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. The heritage-listed

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is positioned on 102 Ipswich Road at

Woolloongabba Woolloongabba is a suburb in the City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. In the , Woolloongabba had a population of 5,631 people. Geography Woolloongabba is located south of the CBD. It contains the Brisbane Cricket Ground ('the Gabba') and t ...

. The establishment was built in 1889, opened in 1890 and quickly became a local landmark. The Clem Jones Tunnel (Clem7) 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

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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

At Annerley, Ipswich Road intersects with

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(formerly

Boggo Road Annerley Road is an arterial road in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. It was formerly known as Boggo Road due to the boggy condition of the road. Route Annerley Road commences at Stanley Street at Clarence Corner. It passes through or forms ...

) at the Annerley Junction. 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) * 413 Ipswich Road: Fig tree (the sole survivor of an avenue of fig trees planted on Ipswich Road in Annerley between 1911 and 1955) * 444 Ipswich Road: Police Station (built in 1925 and still in use as a police station) * 448 Ipswich Road: Annerley Library & Community Centre (designed in 1956 by architect James Birrell) 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) * 770 Ipswich Road: Shops

Yeronga

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the road passes the heritage-listed

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and the heritage-listed

Yeronga Fire Station Yeronga Fire Station is a heritage-listed former fire station at 785 Ipswich Road, Yeronga, City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. It was designed by architectural firm Atkinson and Conrad, and built in 1934 by contractor William Allen Mille ...

. 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

the major arterial road called Beaudesert Road branches to the south east through the industrial suburbs of

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and

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continuing on to the northern outskirts of

. It is when Beaudesert Road crosses the

Logan Motorway The M2/M6 Logan Motorway is a 30-kilometre toll road between Ipswich and the M1 or Pacific Motorway at Loganholme, and the Gateway Motorway, providing access to the Gold Coast on the eastern seaboard and to the rural areas of the Darling Down ...

that Beaudesert Road becomes the

, 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

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the road becomes the upgraded Ipswich Motorway after crossing over the

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Road traffic

At morning peak times the road can be congested anywhere from Annerley towards the city. According to the

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compared to 2007 rates, by 2016 the road is expected to carry an extra 12,000 cars each day. The road carried an average of 52,299 vehicles per day between July and December 2014.

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.

Major intersections

The entire road is in the

local government area.

References

External links

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