Ipswich Road, Brisbane

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.

Logan Road, Pacific Motorway, and Beaudesert Road (Mount Lindesay Highway) are the other major roads in the south of Brisbane.

Woolloongabba
Ipswich Road begins at the Woolloongabba Fiveways 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 Logan Road heads south-east towards Logan City.

The heritage-listed Norman Hotel is positioned on 102 Ipswich Road at Woolloongabba. The establishment was built in 1889, opened in 1890 and quickly became a local landmark.

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).

Annerley
At Annerley, Ipswich Road intersects with Annerley Road (formerly Boggo Road) 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
In Yeronga the road passes the heritage-listed Yeronga Memorial Park and the heritage-listed Yeronga Fire Station.

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
At Moorooka the major arterial road called Beaudesert Road branches to the south east through the industrial suburbs of Salisbury and Acacia Ridge continuing on to the northern outskirts of Logan City. It is when Beaudesert Road crosses the Logan Motorway that Beaudesert Road becomes the Mount Lindesay Highway, 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
At Rocklea the road becomes the upgraded Ipswich Motorway after crossing over the Beenleigh railway line.

Road traffic
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. 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 Brisbane local government area.