| Road Name: | Mackay Ring Road |
| State: | qld |
| Type: | highway |
| Uc Former: | uc |
| Length: | 21 |
| Ring: | Mackay |
| Direction A: | South |
| End A: | Bruce Highway (National Highway A1), Bakers Creek |
| Direction B: | Northeast |
| End B: | Harbour Road |
| Through: | ,, Mount Pleasant, |
The Mackay Ring Road is a bypass route near Mackay, Queensland, Australia The proposed full length of the road is 21km (13miles) long and will be built in 3 stages.[1] Stage 1 opened in September 2020.
Stage 1 is in length and connects the Bruce Highway to the south of Mackay (at Stockroute Road) with the Bruce Highway to the north of Mackay (near Bald Hill Road). It includes a new bridge over the Pioneer River and an interchange with the Peak Downs Highway. It provides a bypass of Mackay for Bruce Highway traffic that is immune to flooding and free of signalised intersections.[1] Stage 1 of the project was expected to cost $540 million, 80% of the funding was from the Commonwealth and the remaining 20% from Queensland.[2]
Stage 2 is in length. It will connect Stage 1 near the Bruce Highway at Glenella to Harbour Road at Mackay Harbour. The route will follow the Mackay Harbour Railway (Port Rail Line).
Stage 3 is in length. An additional connection from Stage 2 to the Port and Slade Point Road.
It was expected that many vehicles would bypass the city once completed.
A project to extend the ring road to Bald Hill Road, at a cost of $497.3 million, was in detailed design in November 2021.[3]
A project to provide access to Mackay Port, at a cost of $350 million, was in planning in July 2022,[4]