Woronora River Bridge

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Woronora River Bridge - Wikipedia

Coordinates: 34°01′10″S 151°02′57″E / 34.0194°S 151.0491°E

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Woronora River Bridge
Woronora River Bridge, view towards Sutherland
Coordinates	34°01′10″S 151°02′57″E / 34.0194°S 151.0491°E / -34.0194; 151.0491
Carries	River Road Motor vehicles Pedestrians Bicycles
Crosses	Woronora River
Locale	Woronora, New South Wales, Australia
Begins	Woronora
Ends	Sutherland
Other name(s)	Woronora Bridge
Maintained by	Transport for NSW
Preceded by	Low-level Woronora Bridge
Followed by	Como railway bridge
Characteristics
Design	Incremental launched box girder with suspended deck
Material	Prestressed concrete
Pier construction	Reinforced concrete
Total length	521 metres (1,709 ft)
Width	19.6 to 26.605 metres (64 to 87 ft)
Height	36 metres (118 ft)
Longest span	58.7 metres (193 ft)
No. of spans	10
Piers in water	4
No. of lanes	4
History
Constructed by	Barclay Mowlem^[1]
Construction end	February 2001
Construction cost	$44.8 million
Replaces	Two-lane low-level Woronora Bridge (1981; concurrent use)
Location

References
^[2]^[3]

The Woronora River Bridge, also known as Woronora Bridge, is a four-lane road bridge that carries River Road across the Woronora River at Woronora, in Southern Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. The bridge, at the time of its completion in 2001, was the largest incrementally launched bridge in the Southern Hemisphere with horizontal and vertical curves.

Description

The Woronora Bridge was built to eliminate the steep grades and hairpin bends on the previous route between the southern Sydney suburbs of Sutherland and Bangor. It was completed in 2001 and replaced the two-lane low level Woronora Bridge which opened in 1981, which in turn had replaced a 1912 single-lane timber bridge.^[4] The low level bridge remains in use for local traffic.

There is a grade-separated shared pedestrian footpath and cycleway on the northern side of the bridge, located just underneath the road. It can be accessed from Menai Road on the Bangor side and Prince Edward Park Road or River Road on the Sutherland side of the river.

The bridge's design was recognised with the Australian Construction Achievement Award in 2002. With a downhill grade of 4.7% at the launching abutment, it has one of the steepest downhill launchings of any incrementally launched bridge.^[5]

Gallery

Aerial view of the low and high level bridges

References

^ Australian Construction Achievement Award Australian Constructors Association
^ "Woronora River Bridge". 10 April 2010.
^ Woronora Bridge at Structurae. Retrieved 18 April 2020.
^ Woronora Bridge and Linden Street widening Roads & Traffic Authority annual report 30 June 2001 page 37
^ Bennett, Mark V.; Taylor, A. J.; Roads & Traffic Authority (2002). "Woronora River Bridge, Sydney". Structural Engineering International. 12 (1): 28–31. doi:10.2749/101686602777965766. S2CID 110722124.

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Woronora River Bridge.

Bridge on the Laing O’Rourke website
Bridge on the Roads & Traffic Authority website
The New Woronora Bridge (streaming video). NSW Roads. YouTube. 24 May 2015.
"Woronora River Bridge, Heathcote Road, after 1943" (photo (black and white)). Sutherland Shire Library. 1943 – via Trove, National Library of Australia.
"Woronora River Bridge, ca. 1946 -- picture" (photo (black and white)). Sutherland Shire Library. 1946 – via Trove, National Library of Australia.
"NSW Main Road No. 663". OzRoads. 2005.^{[self-published source?]}

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