Old Cleveland Road is a major road in

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. It runs from Stones Corner to

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in Brisbane, with most of the route signed as State Route 22. Sections of the road are also part of State Routes 30, 54, and 55. The road is the main route from inner Brisbane to Capalaba and

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since New Cleveland Road only links

Tingalpa Tingalpa is a suburb in the City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. In the , Tingalpa had a population of 8,290 people. Geography The suburb has some older style homes built in the post war period – weatherboard and chamferboard post war ...

with Capalaba. The road provides the quickest access to the suburbs of Capalaba and

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from

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and the

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, as well as being a main access road for

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Shopping Centre and Capalaba Central Shopping Centre. When completed the

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will run parallel to, and (in some parts) in the middle of, the road so bus patrons can avoid severe

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road-wide.

History

In 1839 and 1841

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James Warner, Granville Stayplton and Robert Dixon were directed by incoming Lieutenant

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to prepare the

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for civil administration and private (rather than convict only) occupation. In particular Warner surveyed Norman Creek from (present day) Stones Corner, Hilliard's Creek and

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to the

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, suggesting on his survey a road from

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(then called Cowpers Plains) to Cleveland Point (the only eligible site that a mooted port could be located) along a line approximately south of where Old Cleveland Road is today. A subsequent 1841 survey proposed a slightly different alignment, crossing over Tingalpa Creek only once.Fr. Michael A. Endicott O.S.A., M.A. (November 1975
'The Origins of Old Cleveland Road'
In ''Coorparoo and Saint James' Church''. Accessed from the University of Queensland Library. Retrieved 8 August 2012. In 1849, Major Thomas Mitchell, Surveyor-General of the Colony of New South Wales directed that a town at Cleveland Point be surveyed as per Warner's suggestion in the 1841 survey. Warner submitted his ''Survey of a practicable road from Brisbane in the County of Stanley to the proposed Town of Cleveland in the same County'' on 22 May 1850, the first definitive plan and (subsequent) construction of a road on the current's approximate alignment. The first sale of blocks of land at Cleveland occurred on 13 August 1851 after Warner submitted a survey of allotments for the new town on 25 April of that same year. Old Cleveland Road Tramway Tracks

Old Cleveland Road's alignment was variously altered by various surveyors, including Warner and Gould, and the New South Wales and (subsequent) Queensland colonial and State governments until 1961, the route of which remains largely unchanged to this day. Oddly, a 1926

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map called the road Cleveland Road whilst today's ''Mt. Gravatt-Capalaba Road'' was labelled by council as ''Old Cleveland Road''. A 1975 Brisbane City Council proposal to rename the current Old Cleveland Road was halted after the

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council objected to the change. Between 1912 and 1926, part of the

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ran along the road at

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. Between 1948 and 1969, Brisbane City Council electric trams ran along Old Cleveland Road between

and Belmont. Approximately of tram track remains in the

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between Jones Road to Orwell Street in Carina. This remaining tram track is listed on the Queensland Heritage Register.

Landmarks

Shopping Centre * Sleeman Centre *

* Capalaba Central Shopping Centre *

Coorparoo State School Coorparoo State School is a heritage-listed state school at 327 Old Cleveland Road, Coorparoo, City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. It was designed by Department of Public Works (Queensland) and built in 1907. It was added to the Queensland ...

and the Queen Alexandra Home Community Centre * Camp Hill State Primary School * Belmont State Primary School

Upgrades

Intersection upgrade planning

A project to plan the upgrade of the intersection with Tilley Road, at a cost of $600,000, is expected to complete by late 2022.

Safety improvements

A project to provide safety improvements at three intersections, at a cost of $501,000, was to begin construction early in 2022.

Gateway on-ramp upgrade

A project to upgrade the Gateway on-ramp, at a cost of $5 million, was to be completed late in 2021.

Major intersections

The entire road is in the

local government area.

References

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