Eagle Street is the boundary between Goodna and Bellbird Park and until 1995 was the common boundary between the City of Ipswich and the former Moreton Shire.Eagle Street - coming from Redbank Plains Road - has been a dead end road for a hundred years, petering out just west of the intersection of Elkhorn Street and Mair Drive.
Eagle Street has now been upgraded for a distance of 500 metres to a fully kerbed road with overhead street lighting and a concrete footpath, west to the newly built Siffleet Street at Bellbird Park.
The newly-constructed Eagle Street looking west from the
corner of Elkhorn Street Bellbird Park and Mair Drive Goodna.
Eagle Street is now fully constructed to within 70 metres of Kruger Parade.The developer of the new estate at the western end of Eagle Street - behind the Kruger State School - had proposed a short, 70 metre road link to Kruger Parade - which could have left the section from Siffleet Street back to Elkhorn Street and Mair Drive as a "missing link" for many years.
Ipswich City Council is now finalising the design plans for the remaining section of Eagle Street.
The new Eagle Street between Redbank Plains Road Goodna and Kruger Parade Bellbird Park.
Local Councillor Paul Tully said this would be a "tricky exercise" with high voltage power lines and underground cables right at the intersection of Eagle Street and Kruger Parade.
Cr Tully said the Council planned to install traffic lights at the intersection.He said the work was planned to commence in mid-2008 and once it was completed, it would provide a much-needed link between the two suburbs.
It would enable motorists to avoid the notorious Kruger Parade roundabout and discourage illegal u-turns at the corner of Redbank Plains Road and Brennan Street.
Eagle Street at the corner of Siffleet Street
Bellbird Park looking towards Kruger Parade Redbank.
Where the new connection road will be built along Eagle Street to connect Redbank Plains Road at Goodna with Kruger Parade Bellbird Park.
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