Kingston Bypass

Kingston Bypass Tasmania
The Kingston Bypass, prior to being opened to traffic.
General information
Type	Highway
Length	2.8 km (1.7 mi)
Opened	2011
Route number(s)	B68
Major junctions
North end	Southern Outlet (A6) Huon Highway (A6) (Kingston Interchange)
	Summerleas Road
South end	Channel Highway (B68) Algona Road
Location(s)
Region	Hobart
Major suburbs	Kingston
Highway system
Highways in Australia National Highway • Freeways in Australia Highways in Tasmania
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The Kingston Bypass is a A$41 million, 2.8-kilometre-long (1.7 mi) highway bypassing the southern Hobart community of Kingston, Tasmania. The proposal of a bypass was originally published in the Hobart Area Transportation Study during 1965. The bypass was completed in 2011, after the need to such a road was realised several years earlier when the Channel Highway reached an 18,000 AADT.^[1][2] Construction of the Bypass was made possible by an A$15 million pledge for the project, made by the Australian Labor Party during the 2007 federal election campaign. During construction total cost of the bypass blew out from the original estimate of $30 million to over $41 million.^[3][4]