Gympie Arterial Road Queensland
General information
Type	Freeway
Length	4.7 km (2.9 mi)
Route number(s)	M3
Major junctions
South end	Gympie Road Carseldine, Queensland
	Linkfield Road Strathpine Road
North end	Bruce Highway Bald Hills, Queensland
Location(s)
Major suburbs / towns	Bald Hills
Highway system
Highways in Australia National Highway • Freeways in Australia Highways in Queensland

The Gympie Arterial Road is a freeway in the northern suburbs of Brisbane in Queensland, Australia. The road starts in Carseldine at Gympie Road and terminates at the Gateway Motorway where it becomes the Bruce Highway. It is three lanes in each direction from Carseldine to the Strathpine Road intersection, and two lanes to the Gateway Motorway.

In 2000, a lane duplication was completed and an exit lane was closed at the Strathpine Road off-ramp, with 2 new lanes opened along with traffic lights in its place.

Upgrades

Strathpine Road intersection

A project to improve the intersection with Strathpine Road, at a cost of $30 million, was completed in August 2022.^[1]

Linkfield Road intersection

A project to upgrade the Linkfield Road intersection, at a cost of $125 million, was starting the design stage early in 2022.^[2]

Major intersections

The entire road is in the Brisbane local government area.^[3]

Location	km	mi	Destinations	Notes
Carseldine	0	0.0	Gympie Road – north – Bald Hills / south – Aspley	Southern end of Gympie Arterial Road (M3) No northbound entry from Bald Hills. No southbound entry or exit.
Carseldine – Bald Hills boundary	0.75	0.47	– Linkfield Road (State Route 40) – west – Brendale east – Bracken Ridge, Fitzgibbon	No northbound exit. Previous northbound exit (on Gympie Road) provides access to Linkfield Road.
Bald Hills	2.3	1.4	– Strathpine Road (State Route 58) – west – Strathpine Hoyland Street – east – Bracken Ridge	Provides access via Bracken Ridge to Gateway Motorway
	4.7	2.9	– Gateway Motorway (M1) – south–east – Deagon	Northern end of Gympie Arterial Road. No northbound exit.
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi       Incomplete access

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Legend
km Bruce Highway 0.0 Pine River southbound 0.9 Gateway Motorway northbound gravel plants Strathpine Road 3.2 Hoyland Street 3.8 North Coast rail line 4.8 Linkfield Road Gympie Road 5.6 Gympie Road

See also

Australian Roads portal

• Freeways in Australia
• Freeways in Brisbane

References