Completion of the $1.162 billion Gympie Bypass is just weeks away, with confirmation that works are on track to be finished in October 2024, weather and construction conditions permitting.
Queensland Minister for Transport and Main Roads Bart Mellish and Federal Assistant Minister for Regional Development, Senator Anthony Chisholm will make the announcement today at the official commissioning event at the Gympie Bypass Community Day.
More than 3,000 community members celebrated the milestone on a section of the bypass near the Flood Road interchange, getting the chance to access a part of the new highway before it opens to traffic.
The project has involved constructing a new 26-kilometre, four-lane divided highway between the existing Bruce Highway interchange at Woondum, just south of Gympie, and Curra.
It is the final section of a 62-kilometre, $2.549 billion program of works to upgrade the Bruce Highway between Cooroy and Curra.
Construction of the overall Cooroy to Curra program began in September 2009.
The $1.162 billion Gympie Bypass is jointly funded, with the Australian Government committing $929.6 million and the Queensland Government contributing $232.4 million.
