Tilley Road Bikeway Consultation: Now Open

In the 2024 council election, I committed $108,000 for investigation, design and consultation to convert the existing unformed Tilley Road road corridor into a 1.5km bikeway and linear park.

I am pleased to announce that the consultation for this project has now commenced.

Click below to have your say, and to let us know what you think should be included in the project.

Background

This unformed road corridor stretches between Tilley Road (at New Cleveland Road) and Manly Road (at the intersection of Hargreaves Road).

Over a decade ago, Council dedicated this corridor for a new road link as part of the Tilley Road Extension Project. This corridor has been allocated to Stage 4 of the extension project, with Stage 1 the last completed stage, finished in 2011.

The purpose of this project was to provide an alternative arterial route for heavy vehicle traffic destined for the Port of Brisbane. At the time, truck traffic was using the heavily congested Lytton and Wynnum Road corridors off the Gateway Motorway. As I’m sure many of you can recall, this caused headaches and frustration for all motorists in the area.

The announcement and subsequent completion of the Port of Brisbane Motorway (POBM) upgrade and the Gateway Upgrade Project (GUP) by the State Government has significantly reduced the need to use Tilley Road as an alternative heavy vehicle corridor.

The Gateway Motorway and POBM now accommodate the heavy vehicle traffic flow to the Port of Brisbane rather comfortably, which they did not do when Council first designed the Tilley Road Extension.

Issues

As such, the strategic need for this corridor to be preserved for a roadway is much lower today.

The purpose for which the Tilley Road Extension Project was formed is now obsolete, as the Gateway Motorway and POBM upgrades solved many of the issues that the project would have addressed.

Council is now considering alternative uses for the land that was allocated to Stage 4 of the extension - specifically, converting it into a 1.5km bikeway and linear park. This would connect the Eastside Village shops in Gumdale with Mayfair Village in Manly West, and offer an active transport option for locals.

Another factor to consider is that some of the land is protected koala habitat and is identified as a “koala corridor,” which necessitates environmental approvals from the federal government. However, a linear park is much more likely to be able to preserve the koala habitat, as opposed to a road corridor.

Consultation

Before Council can begin the planning, design and development of this proposed bikeway and linear park, I need to understand the community’s view on the corridor. The proposed bikeway and park back onto hundreds of residences, and so consultation is an important starting point before further investigations and design can proceed.

A letter with the survey link has been sent to the closest 1415 properties on the electoral roll, but I welcome any Wakerley resident to fill out the survey and have their say.

If residents indicate they do not want this area to become a bikeway and linear park, it will remain preserved as an unformed road corridor for the foreseeable future.

 

Tilley Road Extension Project Plan Map

The area in question has been preserved for Stage 4.

Survey Letter

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Ryan Murphy

Councillor for Chandler Ward

Civic Cabinet Chair for Infrastructure

www.ryanmurphy.com.au
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