Choking traffic around Indooroopilly's Walter Taylor Bridge is a sign the Centenary Highway should now be widened to six lanes and a new bridge built from Bellbowrie to Riverhills, the RACQ says.
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This week traffic inched for four kilometres along Honour Avenue past Chelmer and Graceville, with motorists taking 45 minutes to crawl across the Walter Taylor Bridge at Indooroopilly.
Brisbane City Council said "traffic congestion" on Moggill Road made the traffic situation at Indooroopilly worse than usual.
The Brisbane City Council confirmed on Wednesday it had in February 2016 bought the riverside Defence Department property, Witton Barracks, beside Indooroopilly train station, for a park and a new Indooroopilly bridge.
The council bought land on the opposite Chelmer side of the Brisbane River several years ago and confirmed its long-term plans for a new Indooroopilly bridge from Chelmer to Indooroopilly.
"Council took possession of the Witton Barracks site in February this year, following its purchase from the federal government for use as a park and to preserve the corridor for the future duplication of the Walter Taylor Bridge," a spokesman said.
However RACQ executive manager of public policy Michael Roth said it was a symptom that the state government must bring forward plans for major infrastructure in fast-growing Brisbane.
"Bringing forward plans to build a bridge across the river out at Bellbowrie to Riverhills is a very good idea," Mr Roth said.
"It should be progressed and should be something both the state government and Brisbane City Council should look at," he said.
"Make it a one-lane each way road bridge with a cycle lane," he said.
"That would be good for buses, good for cars and good for cyclists.
"It links Riverhills to the Bellbowrie Shopping Centre and gives everyone a bit more business."
Mr Roth said a Bellbowrie to Riverhills bridge - promised to residents 40 years ago when the Bellbowrie subdivision was approved – must be considered.
He said it meant shorter car trips and better access to the Ipswich rail line stations for residents in Brisbane's western suburbs.
"If they want to take public transport into the city, that can take a lot of pressure off Moggill Road and stop all that drama downstream."
Mr Roth said it was also time Main Roads widened Centenary Highway to six lanes.
"Outbound they have six lanes from Legacy Way (tunnel) to Moggill Road. They need to continue that six-laning and take it all the way across the Brisbane River at Jindalee to the Ipswich Motorway eventually," he said.
"It's a big project, but those two will obviously relieve congestion and take that little bit of pressure off Indooroopilly and let it cope better."
The Department of Main Roads said a business case to widen the Centenary Highway to six lanes would be finished in 2018.
"The study will consider timing of infrastructure construction," a spokesman said.
"Any future funding will be assessed against competing state-wide priorities."
The department did not answer Fairfax Media questions about a possible bridge between Bellbowrie and Riverhills.
The Brisbane City Council said it made no sense to use "temporary" traffic lights to let city-bound traffic use both lanes across the old Walter Taylor Bridge more frequently in peak hours.
"It would require significant queuing capacity on either side of the bridge to store waiting vehicles and then a complex traffic management system that would direct vehicles from one lane into two across the bridge and back into one lane on the other side," a spokesman said.
