A new 500 metre off-road bikeway will be built under Bowen Bridge Road to extend the existing path around the Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital.

This missing link will run between Gilchrist Avenue at Victoria Park, crossing parkland before going under the Inner Northern Busway twice, under Bowen Bridge Road and then turning up into Bowen Park beside the RNA Exhibition Grounds.

A map of where the first stage of the bikeway will be built.

At a cost of $2 million, it is the first stage of the North Brisbane Bikeway which will eventually run out to Chermside, under joint Brisbane City Council and state government funding.

The project was welcomed by Bicycle Queensland and Brisbane City Council, who said the new bikeway would be of great benefit to local cyclists.