The Townsville Ring Road: Stage Five (TRR5) is essential to the Bruce Highway, a major route within Queensland’s National Highway network.

It connects Townsville’s suburbs to key employment centres and vital services, supporting the movement of freight, passengers, and tourists.

BG&E was engaged by Georgiou to design the long-term temporary traffic management (TTM) staging works associated with the TRR5 project.

BG&E produced five long-term traffic stages and five sub-stages. For each TTM stage, this included TMD approved and RPEQ certified design documentation for road geometry, drainage, barrier design, delineation and signage, and temporary lighting design.

We worked closely with Georgiou to develop TTM works that ensure the safety of the workers and community, normal traffic operation, and efficient construction works.

The key features of this project are

• Duplication of a six kilometre, two lane section of the Townsville Ring Road between Vickers Bridge and Shaw Road to four lanes.
• Duplication of bridges over Bohle and Little Bohle rivers.
• Duplication of overpass bridges at Beck Drive and Hervey Range Developmental Road.
• A new interchange at Beck Drive, catering for all directions of travel and providing a better connection between the Townsville Ring Road and the Upper Ross area.
• Changes to the existing Riverway Drive interchange to ensure its safe operation with the new Beck Drive interchange, including removal of the southbound off-ramp and northbound on-ramp.
• Installation of drainage for flood mitigation.
• Installation of intelligent transport systems.
• Noise mitigation measures.
• Environmental considerations.
• Upgrades to the surrounding local road network, including signalisation of the Beck Drive and Gouldian Avenue intersection.
• Active transport facilities including new and upgraded shared pathways for pedestrians and bike riders.

Construction started in June 2021 and was completed in early October 2023.