Connecting Brisbane and Redcliffe

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Hornibrook Highway, Brighton, March 1955

The Courier Mail

03 Oct 1935

THE HORNIBROOK HIGHWAY

The opening of the Hornibrook Highway to-morrow will give the people of Brisbane a virtually new coast to their bay. A magnificent piece of engineering work has effected a great change in the ciy's geography, and has acquired for it what may be regarded as a new seaside suburb. Redcliffe and its attractive bays will be only a short motor drive beyond Sandgate, and the route across the 8850ft viaduct, which now spans Hayes's Inlet, will be unique in Australia - a journey on wheels between sea and sky. The construction of this highway has been a bold adventure, and it should greatly accelerate the development it anticipates. That it will make an important addition to Bribsane's amenities is self-evident. Redcliffe has attained to the position of the premier bay resort, despite the handicaps of its distance from the city and the lack of railway communication.

Its easier accessibility will be a boon which will be more and more appreciated as Brisbane grows, and Sangate should also acquire greater favour as a suburb by the provision of an outlet to the North Coast. But the full value of the Hornibrook Highway as a traffic facility will not be realised until it becomes a component part of a good highway all the way between the city and Redcliffe. Building enterprise, trade, and population follow good roads these days, and it will remain for public authority to copmlete a great developmental undertaking which the promoters of the Hornibrook Highway so courageously began and have, as far as their part of it is concerned, so well finished.


Then and now...

View from along the old Hornibrook Bridge towards Clontarf/Woody Point with Castrol banner sign in the distance.

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