Queensland Art Gallery Presscuttings Book 6 : Debate on New Art Gallery and Cultural Centre 1963-1970

_2 THI COUAIIR-MAIL THUUDAY AUG JIN", e - I . •·•,. RIii ' ' .. , . . . -----······---- .. or HERE are the basic recommendations of the Wilbur ·Smith £178.2 - million blueprint to "cure" Brisbane's traffic troubles. · The plan provides for carrying out the works over a four-stage • period for completion by 1985. · ·- ·· Its cost of £ 178 million Is based on present-day construction costs and lend valuations. This fi gure includes the cost of building the five bridges. · The !!Cherne would give Bri • bane eight big fr:ee– waya and four main ex– prea1way1 to cost a total o( .£117 million, and five . new: .b,rldges. acroH the B1'1-l!ane River. , . The . fl,e new- brldi– tMenl/al. for the carrylnr• tut of the WIibur Smith Jl~re:- GATEWAY BRIDGE: N~r ,.. the Brisbane River mouth. nEW FARM BRIDGE: Croainr the river nenr Latrobe and St11f!ord 1treets on the IIOU th, to New Farm. POINT BRIDGE: From Woolloongabba across to the Domain. IIERIVALE BRIDGE: Just upstream from the _William Jolly Bridge. 01 LUCIA BRIDGE: From Yeronga to the University area. The tree ways will have eompJete systems of grade lfl)lratlon and interchang- 1111 of traffic. Except for the.le points there will be no lnfllc access to the free• l'IJI. The e:,:preuway1 11•111 flan partlally-controlled atces.,. The eight proposed free– l'ay1 are :- ,..