Victoria Bridge | |
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Coordinates | 37°47′29″S 175°17′23″E / 37.79128°S 175.28983°E |
Carries | Motor vehicles, bicycles, pedestrians |
Crosses | Waikato River |
Other name(s) | Hamilton Traffic Bridge |
Owner | Hamilton City Council |
Preceded by | Cobham Bridge |
Followed by | Claudelands Bridge |
Characteristics | |
Longest span | 103.6 m[1] |
No. of spans | three |
Piers in water | nil |
History | |
Designer | James Fulton |
Constructed by | G M Fraser[1] |
Construction start | 1909 |
Opened | 1910 |
Statistics | |
Daily traffic | 2-way traffic counts 92m east of Victoria St 2004 28,585 2005 29,050 2010 26,300 2015 25,400 2020 25,500 2021 25,600 2022 25,700[2] |
Location | |
Victoria Bridge (originally known as the Hamilton Traffic Bridge and later also as The Bridge Street Bridge) is a steel arch bridge in Hamilton, New Zealand. The bridge has a Category I heritage protection.
The bridge has a main arch of 340 ft (100 m) and 4 land spans. Its total length is 500 ft (150 m). The road is 18 ft (5.5 m) wide and the footpath 4.5 ft (1.4 m). It cost £25,500,[3] equivalent to over $4m in 2017.[4] It replaced the 1879 timber Union Bridge.[5]
In 1929 stone steps were built beside the western end of the bridge to link to Ferry Bank.[6]
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