Bagdad Bypass

Bagdad Bypass Tasmania
General information
Type	Highway
Length	16 km (9.9 mi)
Route number(s)	National Highway 1
Major junctions
North end	Midland Highway (National Highway 1, Dysart)
South end	Brighton Bypass (Midland Highway, National Highway 1)
Location(s)
Major settlements	Bagdad
Highway system
Highways in Australia National Highway • Freeways in Australia Highways in Tasmania

The Bagdad Bypass was a proposed bypass of the Midland Highway, through Bagdad, Tasmania. The road was proposed to initially constructed as a two-lane highway with extra earthworks undertaken to facilitate future duplication of the bypass. The road was proposed be constructed as a grade separated highway and was designed to seamlessly connect to the Brighton Bypass.

In 2010, the Department of Infrastructure, Energy & Resources released two potential alignments for public comment. Neither design existed wholly within the existing proclaimed corridor and ultimately, a combination of the two designs was chosen to minimize intrusion into townships while at the same time keep construction costs to a minimum by diverting the future highway away from areas that would require significant earthworks.^[1][2]

In 2017, a central turning lane through Baghdad was completed instead.^[3]