Cyclists and walkers to breeze through inner city with improved transport link
Brisbane City Council’s efforts to ensure its new Kangaroo Point green bridge becomes a major cycle and pedestrian link in the CBD has seen it punch an underpass beneath the Story Bridge to improve connectivity in the area.
An artist's impression of the new Story Bridge underpass due to be completed next year. (Image: BCC)
Walls underneath the Story Bridge have been removed as part of the project, which involves building a new walking and riding link through to Deakin St.
The new underpass will connect the new green bridge landing at Scott St with the rest of Kangaroo Point and the eastern suburbs.
Lord Mayor Adrian Schrinner talked up the project, saying it would connect Brisbane’s most iconic landmark of the last century with “the future world-class landmark linking the city centre and Kangaroo Point Peninsula”.
“This Story Bridge is not only part of Brisbane’s heritage but its future, so it’s fitting that 95 per cent of the concrete sections removed from the bridge will be recycled and could be given a new life in other parts of the city,” he said.
He said unlike the new underpass, existing pedestrian and cycle links allowing people to go from one side of the Story Bridge to the other involved negotiating stairs.
The project is due to be completed by 2024 ahead of the anticipated opening of the Kangaroo Point green bridge.
