Fortress mode as G20 fences up

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Hundreds of police are warned to expect an "unpredictable" G20 as Premier Campbell Newman says "I am apprehensive".

Security barricades have gone up around four key locations in inner-city Brisbane overnight ahead of the G20 summit.

They are the foundations of what will be the G20 city's fortress.

Roads are being progressively closed, with lanes blocked at the Fortitude Valley end of Adelaide Street, at Macrossan Street and at Grey Street at South Brisbane.

Brisbane visitors Karen and George Goodman outside the Marriott Hotel. Photo: Tony Moore

Further road closures come into effect in the cityand for South Brisbanefrom Wednesday, Thursday and then for the weekend.

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The heaviest security appears to be around the Marriott Hotel at the top end of Adelaide Street near Petrie Bight, where traffic comes in from the Ivory Street road tunnel.

At the Marriott Hotel, on the corner of Adelaide and Queen streets, there is a two-metre high reinforced steel barricade outside the hotel's front door.

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Fortress mode as G20 fences up