Tenders called for new Hobart Airport flyover junction
18 April 2019
Tenders are now being called for
detailed
design and construction of the new four-lane
Hobart Airport
Interchange project that will replace the existing
Hobart airport roundabout.
Motorists can look forward to a new, free-flowing interchange to improve
safety and reduce the peak time traffic congestion on this busy section
of the Tasman Highway.
The works will include removal of the existing roundabout and
construction of a four-lane overpass, or ‘flyover’, with the realigned
Holyman Avenue (to/from airport) and Kennedy Drive (to/from Cambridge)
passing over the Tasman Highway.
This will mean that the four-lane Tasman Highway traffic below the new
flyover will flow unimpeded towards Hobart or Sorell.
The new interchange will also greatly improve access to Hobart Airport
and support predicted growth in visitor numbers, air freight transport
and commercial development.
When complete, the project will feature a two-lane off-ramp to the
Hobart Airport, a continuous flow on-ramp from the Airport towards
Hobart, with 1.6 kilometres of the Tasman Highway upgraded including
extension of the dual carriageway.
Delivery of this significant project forms an important element of the
Hodgman Liberal Government’s South East Traffic Solution election policy
commitment.
The Australian and State Governments have committed $30 million to the
project and construction is expected to start in early 2020 and is due
for completion in mid-2022.
More information on the project, including video representation of how
the new flyover would operate, is available at
www.transport.tas.gov.au/road/projects/hobart_airport_interchange
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Source: Tasmanian Government - www.premier.tas.gov.au
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External Links: www.transport.tas.gov.au/road/projects/hobart_airport_interchange
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