Bridge connecting two Brisbane suburbs to close for more than two weeks, forcing 16km detour

The heritage-listed Walter Taylor Bridge – connecting Indooroopilly to Chelmer across the Brisbane River – has been closed for essential maintenance work until 30 September 2024.

A bridge in Brisbane connecting the suburbs of Indooroopilly and Chelmer in the city’s inner south-west has been closed until Monday 30 September 2024 for essential maintenance work.

The heritage-listed Walter Taylor Bridge was closed to all traffic from 9:00pm on Friday 13 September 2024 for the works, which are required approximately every 10 years and include a full removal and replacement of the road asphalt, line-marking, bridge deck concrete repairs, and steel node maintenance.

It is the longest time the bridge has been closed since a 17-day maintenance period in 1993, with a closure in 2013 for two days a time and night works spanning five months, and a four-night closure in May 2024.

Constructed in 1936, the Walter Taylor Bridge is a critical link across the Brisbane River for more than 35,000 daily users in personal vehicles and buses.

Road users travelling between Indooroopilly and Chelmer, and vice versa, will be required to detour across the Centenary Bridge via Oxley Road, Seventeen Mile Rocks Road and Centenary Highway, adding around 16 kilometres to their journey.

According to Google Maps data, travelling between Indooroopilly and Chelmer across the Walter Taylor Bridge takes around four minutes, while diverting via the Centenary Bridge could take up to 35 minutes or longer in peak times.

The Brisbane City Council said it decided to undertake these works in mid-to-late September due to the “quieter period of traffic” during the school holidays, along with the trial of cheaper public transport fares in Queensland.

There is no impact to the train network, which will continue to operate across the adjacent rail bridge, while emergency vehicles responding to an incident with lights and sirens will be granted access to Jack Pesch Bridge with traffic control in place to clear any pedestrian or cyclist traffic.

The Walter Taylor Bridge is scheduled to re-open to traffic at 5:00am on Monday 30 September 2024.

To view traffic changes in the area, you can visit the Queensland Traffic website by clicking here.

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