Editing Hobart (section)

===Road===
[[File:Connection to the east - panoramio.jpg|thumb|[[Tasman Bridge]]]]
Hobart's transport is centred around roads. The main arterial routes within the urban area are the [[Brooker Highway]] to [[Glenorchy, Tasmania|Glenorchy]] and the northern suburbs, the [[Tasman Bridge]] and [[Bowen Bridge]] across the river to [[Rosny, Tasmania|Rosny]] and the Eastern Shore. The East Derwent Highway to Lindisfarne, Geilston Bay, and Northwards to Brighton, the South Arm Highway leading to Howrah, Rokeby, Lauderdale and Opossum Bay and the [[Southern Outlet, Hobart|Southern Outlet]] south to [[Kingston, Tasmania|Kingston]] and the [[D'Entrecasteaux Channel]]. Leaving the city, motorists can travel the [[Lyell Highway]] to the [[West Coast, Tasmania|west coast]], [[Midland Highway (Tasmania)|Midland Highway]] to [[Launceston, Tasmania|Launceston]] and the north, [[Tasman Highway]] to the east coast, or the [[Huon Highway]] to the far south.

Many of these highways were built after Australia's first motor vehicle [[Hobart Area Transportation Study|transportation study]] by US consultants in the 1960s, with an apparent urgency to cater to growing road traffic volumes. However, most of the targets were not achieved in the years after 1985 despite the scale of these projects, with the large amount of public funds required curbing feasibility. Another side-effect of this transition in investment away from public transport is that Hobart has limited mode redundancy compared to larger Australian capitals and a higher proportion of vehicle traffic, meaning that individual incidents can shut the entire network down.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Podwinski |first1=Isabella |title=Avoiding another major Hobart traffic jam means building a new bridge, one expert says — but are we too car dependent? |url=https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-01-17/tas-bridge-traffic-tasman-hobart-gridlock-truck/101863226 |access-date=26 June 2024 |agency=ABC News |date=17 January 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Stayner |first1=Guy |title=Fixing Hobart's traffic woes may come down to driving cultural change |url=https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-05-22/hobart-traffic-roads-getting-worse/11115722 |access-date=26 June 2024 |agency=ABC News |date=22 May 2019}}</ref>

As part of the [[Southern Transport Investment Program]], Tasmania's largest transport project, the $786 million (as of 2023) [[Bridgewater Bridge (Tasmania)#Replacement bridge|New Bridgewater Bridge]], is expected to finish by 2025.<ref>{{cite web |title=New Bridgewater Bridge Project |url=https://bridgewaterbridge.tas.gov.au/home |website=Bridgewater Bridge |access-date=25 June 2024}}</ref> Unlike the Tasman Bridge, it will be accessible to pedestrians upon opening.