List of bypasses in Tasmania

Tasmania has a majority of bypasses built over the years with many being on the National Highway route and some being on different route numbers.

The Kingston Bypass

The Brighton Bypass

National Highway

Midland Highway

Main article: Brighton Bypass

• Brighton Bypass - The Bypass was built and opened in 2012 with a total cost of A$191 million for the bypass. Protests happened in 2011 due to the bypass going to go over the Jordan River due to Aboriginal sites. To this day the Bypass still remains Controversial.

Main article: Bagdad Bypass

• Bagdad Bypass - The Bagdad Bypass was a Proposed bypass in Bagdad but instead a Central turning lane was put in the middle of the road in Bagdad instead.
• Kempton Bypass - Bypass that diverts traffic away from the town centre of Kempton Built in the 1980s.
• Melton Mowbray Bypass -
• Jericho Bypass - Bypass that diverts traffic away from the Town centre of Jericho built in 1982.
• Oatlands Bypass - Bypass that diverts traffic away from the Town centre of Oatlands
• Tunbridge Bypass - Directs traffic away from Tunbridge.
• Ross Bypass - Bypass that diverts traffic away from the Town centre of Ross. The town has being bypassed since the 1960s or 1970s.
• Conara Bypass - The highway slightly bypasses the town but diverts traffic away from being in the Town centre.

Main article: Perth Link Roads

• Perth Link Roads - Built in 2020 with a total cost of A$92.3 million, The bypass diverts traffic away from the Town centre of Perth from Perth to Breadalbane.

Bass Highway

The route for the Bass Highway has being completely redirected, so the Bass Highway doesn't really have any Bypass besides starting on a Trumpet interchange on the Launceston Southern Outlet which bypasses Prospect Vale, Prospect, and Most of all the towns in the Meander Valley region and heading up to the West Coast.

• Prospect Bypass - Bypass that has completely redirected the Bass Highway's route to start on the Launceston Southern Outlet
• Hadspen Bypass - Before the Prospect Bypass was built, In the 1970s, Hadspen was bypassed when the Bass Highway used to take the old route where the Meander Valley Road goes onto. The town is still Bypassed but with another Bypass
• Westbury Bypass - Built in 2003, Westbury got bypassed and the Bass Highway's route got redirected again as of currently being the last Bypass being built on the Bass Highway
• Deloraine Bypass - The Deloraine Bypass was opened on 8 June 1990. The project was carried out over five years and cost a total of A$19 million. The bypass opening was performed by the Federal and State ministers for Land Transport and Roads and Transport respectively.
• Devonport Bypass - The bypass sort of splits through Devonport rather than going through the Devonport CBD.
• Ulverstone Bypass/Penguin Bypass- Bypassed in August 1980, the Bass Highway was redirected away from the Town centre of Ulverstone, and Penguin.

Brooker Highway

The Brooker Highway, and Brooker Avenue was built in the 1950s previously going onto Main Road, nowadays taking a different route bypassing Austins Ferry, New Town, and more. The Brooker Highway nearly has no Bypasses besides the Northern Outlet bypassing the suburbs of Hobart.

A routes

Bass Highway

• Wynyard Bypass - Wynyard was bypassed in the 1980s to direct vehicles away from the Town centre of Wynyard.
• Smithton Bypass - The Smithton Bypass was built in the late 1980s to direct vehicles away from the Town centre.

Tasman Highway

The Tasman Highway (or ) has a minor amounts of Bypasses on the route as the longest as the Eastern Outlet starting from the Tasman Bridge to Hobart Airport.

• St Marys Bypass - As not really being a Bypass, the route was redirected from going onto Elephant Pass Road, then into St Marys, then onto St Marys Pass. It replaces the route from going onto Curvey roads and entirely bypassing St Marys.

Huon Highway

The Huon Highway (or ) has a minor amounts of Bypasses. Just like the Tasman Highway with the minor amounts of Bypasses, the highway has being redirected on the Hobart Southern Outlet.

• Kingston Bypass - Built in 2011 to bypass Kingston and divert traffic away from the Town centre of Kingston.
• Huon Link Road - Built in March 2025, the Huon Link Road is a bypass around central Huonville designed to reduce congestion on Main Street. It connects Orchard Avenue and the Huon Highway to Flood Road, providing a more direct route for traffic to and from Cygnet.

East Tamar Highway

Plans for a high-speed East Tamar Highway date back to the 1950s.

• Dilston Bypass - The Dilston Bypass replaced the old route for the East Tamar Highway and was built in 2011.

B routes

Most B routes in Tasmania do not have any Bypasses unless they are major B route roads.

Channel Highway

Main article: Kingston Bypass

• Kingston Bypass - The 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.

Meander Valley Road

• Hadspen Bypass - When the Bass Highway went onto the route, Hadspen was bypassed in the 1970s. Nowadays, the Meander Valley Road bypasses the town centre but the Speed limit being 80 km/H.

C routes

There is not a single Bypass that carries a C route in Tasmania but rather a Major C route as Kings Meadows Link that sort of Bypasses Youngtown but has never went through Youngtown.