Ipswich Road, Brisbane

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.{{cite news |url=http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/queensland/hotel-with-a-past-20090605-bybu.html |title=Hotel with a past |author=Tony Moore |access-date=10 July 2010 |date=5 June 2010 |work=Brisbane Times |publisher=Fairfax Media |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121004095703/http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/queensland/hotel-with-a-past-20090605-bybu.html |archive-date=4 October 2012 |df=dmy-all }}{{cite QHR|16155|Norman Hotel|602539|access-date=26 December 2013}}

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.

The Princess Alexandra Hospital is located on Ipswich Road at Buranda, as is the Buranda Shopping Centre (formerly the Ipswich Road tram depot).

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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){{cite BrisbaneHR|59|Tram substation (former)|accessdate=2 January 2014}}
• 413 Ipswich Road: Fig tree (the sole survivor of an avenue of fig trees planted on Ipswich Road in Annerley between 1911 and 1955){{cite BrisbaneHR|60|Fig tree)|accessdate=2 January 2014}}
• 444 Ipswich Road: Police Station (built in 1925 and still in use as a police station){{cite BrisbaneHR|61|Police Station)|accessdate=2 January 2014}}
• 448 Ipswich Road: Annerley Library & Community Centre (designed in 1956 by architect James Birrell){{cite BrisbaneHR|62|Annerley Library & Community Centre|accessdate=2 January 2014}}

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){{cite BrisbaneHR|63|Mary Immaculate Catholic Church|accessdate=2 January 2014}}
• 770 Ipswich Road: Shops {{cite BrisbaneHR|64|Shops, 770 Ipswich Road|accessdate=2 January 2014}}

In Yeronga the road passes the heritage-listed Yeronga Memorial Park and the heritage-listed Yeronga Fire Station.{{cite QHR|19584|Yeronga Memorial Park|602462|access-date=2 January 2014}}{{cite QHR|16880|Yeronga Fire Station (former)|602144|access-date=2 January 2014}}

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).

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.

As it enters Rocklea, the road crosses over the Beenleigh railway line via the Rocklea Overpass. It then continues to the Granard Road interchange, where it becomes the upgraded Ipswich Motorway. Ipswich Road used to continue to the Brisbane City boundary at Gailes, where it became the Cunningham Highway, but it was cut back to Rocklea when the motorway was completed in 1994.

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.{{Citation needed|date=May 2009}} The road carried an average of 52,299 vehicles per day between July and December 2014.{{Cite news |url=http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/queensland/brisbane-traffic-increasing-report-shows-20150317-1m1kgq.html |title=Brisbane traffic increasing, report shows |author=Kristian Silva |access-date=18 March 2015 |date=18 March 2015 |newspaper=Brisbane Times |publisher=Fairfax Media |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150916164502/http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/queensland/brisbane-traffic-increasing-report-shows-20150317-1m1kgq.html |archive-date=16 September 2015 |df=dmy-all }}

The last tram service in Brisbane took route S34 along Ipswich Road into Tottenham Road and the Ipswich Road Depot on 14 April 1969.{{cite journal |journal=Brisbane:Water, Power and Industry Paper No. 20 |editor=Carolyn Fitz-Gerald |title=Trams, tramways and termini |last=Ford |first=Garry |year=2008 |publisher=Brisbane History Group |location=Kelvin Grove, Queensland |isbn=978-0-9751793-3-8 |pages=64 }}

The entire road is in the Brisbane local government area.

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