The Margaret Street ramps off the Riverside Expressway will be closed for the next seven weekends to let demolition work continue on the new $3 billion Queens Wharf casino complex near George Street in the CBD.
From 8pm on Friday until 4am on Monday morning motorists will be unable to use the off-ramps.
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The closure will be in place each weekend until Monday, September 11.
The section of Margaret Street from the Riverside Expressway to George Street will also be closed for demolition work.
Vehicles wanting to get to the CBD from the Riverside Expressway will need to exit at the Elizabeth or Turbot Street off-ramp.
Pedestrians from 1 William Street and QUT can use Alice and George streets.
The Executive Building, the Neville Bonner Building and the old Public Works Building on George Street were all being demolished and the concrete beams under the Margaret Street overpass would be removed, Destination Brisbane consortium project director Simon Crooks said.
A 400-tonne crane would progressively remove 48 40-tonne support beams from the sections of the Margaret Street overpass.
Bracing was placed under the overpass when the ramps were closed during the Easter weekend.
"Over the last six months work has been occurring both within our site boundary and in the surrounding streets," Mr Crooks said.
"Starting this weekend, temporary road closures are required. The decision was made to only do work on weekends, when traffic in the CBD is at its lowest."
The closure was unlikely to cause major traffic problems, based on the experience of a similar closure over the Easter weekend.
Eventually the Margaret Street ramp will enter into the development, with residential towers on one side and the integrated casino and resort on the other side of Margaret Street.
Construction on the project – one of the largest in Queensland's history – will run until 2022.
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