Traffic congestion in the Redlands may not have reached the level of gridlock experienced in inner-city Brisbane, but traffic hold-ups confront drivers daily.

Most workers leave the Redlands to get to their jobs and RACQ research shows they face increasingly long travel times along major routes such as Old Cleveland Road and Wynnum Road.

Drivers who make the morning peak-hour journey on Old Cleveland Road from Capalaba to inner city Brisbane move at an average speed of 27.5 kilometres per hour, according to last year’s RACQ travel times study.

The same study found motorists were travelling at an average of 22.3 km/h during busy morning traffic in-bound on Wynnum Road from Wynnum.

RACQ spokesman Jim Kershaw said more roads funding was needed across the board to ease congestion as South East Queensland experienced rapid growth, including for an inner-city ring road.

State Labor Member for Redlands John English said he had called on Treasurer Andrew Fraser to upgrade three busy intersections on Cleveland-Redland Bay Road.

He said upgrades were urgently needed at the intersections with Beveridge, Dinwoodie and Ziegenfusz roads before the planned road widening was undertaken.

Labor Member for Cleveland Phil Weightman said the notorious roundabout on the corner of Wellington and Shore streets at Cleveland needed traffic lights.

Mr Weightman also named the Mary Pleasant Drive and Birkdale Road roundabout as a cause for concern.

Labor MP for Capalaba Michael Choi identified the duplication of Redland Bay Road from Vienna Road to Boundary Road as an important upgrade. This project is already under way and is due for completion in December.

Mr Choi also called for the four-lane upgrade of Mount Gravatt-Capalaba Road to be completed as quickly as possible, saying the full upgrade could be years away.

Federal Liberal Member for Bowman Andrew Laming said road projects such as the duplication of Cleveland-Redland Bay Road had been planned by the State Government years ago, but had been delayed.

He said three intersections at Redland Bay – German Church Road, Boundary Street and Gordon Road – should be priorities. Mount Cotton Road upgrades were also important.