South Arm Highway - Bellerive Bypass

Bellerive Bypass

A limited access Highway in this region had been planned since the Hobart Area Transportation Study of 1964, but it was not until the early 1980s that it was constructed. This new section of the road starts at the Tasman Highway at Mornington and runs through a large Roundabout at Howrah before connecting to the old South arm highway. This bypass has replaced the original route between South Arm and Hobart which passed through Bellerive and Rosny. Originally the highway was planned as a fully grade-separated Highway, however currently the only grade-separated junction on this Road is with the Roundabout interchange junction at the Tasman Highway As of 2009, a section of the highway is under construction between Shoreline Drive and Rokeby, to become a Limited-access road, with two lanes in each direction. The extra two lanes were allocated (but not constructed) during the Bellrieve bypass upgrade in the 1980s.

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