Roseville Bridge
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- Motor vehicles
- Grade-separated shared pedestrian footpath and cycleway
Roseville Bridge | |
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 View from Killarney Heights to Roseville | |
| Coordinates | 33°46′23″S 151°12′13″E / 33.77310°S 151.20366°E |
| Carries | Warringah Road
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| Crosses | Middle Harbour |
| Locale | Roseville, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia |
| Begins | Roseville (south) |
| Ends | Frenchs Forest (north) |
| Maintained by | Transport for NSW |
| Followed by | Spit Bridge |
| Characteristics | |
| Design | Box girder |
| Material | Pre-stressed concrete |
| Total length | 377 metres (1,237 ft) |
| Clearance above | 17.4 metres (57 ft) |
| No. of lanes | 6: 3 northbound; 3 southbound |
| History | |
| Construction cost | A$1.64 million |
| Opened | 2 April 1966 by Robert Askin, NSW Premier |
| Replaces | Old Roseville Bridge (1924–1974) |
| Statistics | |
| Daily traffic | 65,000 (2016) |
| Location | |
 Interactive map of Roseville Bridge | |
| References | |
| [1][2][3][4] | |
The Roseville Bridge, is a pre-stressed concrete box girder road bridge that carries Warringah Road, part of the A38 across Middle Harbour, located adjacent to the suburb of Roseville, in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. The bridge is one of two crossings of Middle Harbour, the other being the Spit Bridge.
The suburbs east of Middle Harbour grew rapidly in the years following the opening of the inaugural Roseville Bridge. On 2 April 1966, the Liberal Premier Robin Askin, the local Member for Collaroy, officially opened the new six-lane, high-level bridge, in a ceremony attended by several hundred people, including Pat Morton (Minister for Local Government and Highways), Milton Morris (Minister for Transport), Dick Healey (Member for Wakehurst), Harry Jago (Member for Gordon), and J. A. L. Shaw (Commissioner for Main Roads).[2][5][6][7]
Built at a cost of A$1.64 million, the bridge was designed by the Department of Main Roads, with architects Fowell, Mansfield & Maclurcan being design consultants on the project; the primary contractor was John Holland (Constructions) Pty Ltd.[8] The bridge is 377 metres (1,237 ft) long has a clearance of 17.4 metres (57 ft) from the water below.[1] However, the adjacent Pipe Bridge has a clearance of only 11 metres (36 ft). This limitation, combined with only 1.5 metres (4 ft 11 in) depth of water, make it out of reach for most cruising vessels. Along with the bridge, a significant upgrade of the approach roads was completed, which became the six-lane Warringah Road. This upgraded section of road is approximately 2 kilometres (1.2 mi) long.
Today Roseville Bridge is part of a major thoroughfare from the Pacific Highway at Roseville to the Northern Beaches and suburbs east of Middle Harbour. Due to the halt of the construction of the Warringah Expressway across Middle Harbour to Wakehurst Parkway and the Burnt Bridge Creek Deviation, which is the only part of the Warringah Expressway built on the Northern Beaches by the Labor Wran government, there are today only two other major roads to these areas: Mona Vale Road, and Spit Road which crosses Middle Harbour downstream from Roseville Bridge using the Spit Bridge.
The road carries three lanes of traffic towards Roseville, and three lanes of traffic towards Frenchs Forest. A grade-separated shared pedestrian footpath and cycleway is located on the western side of the bridge.
On 8 March 2022, torrential rain and inadequate drainage led to the bridge being dubbed the new "Roseville Aqueduct" with images showing floating cars and water fall edge.[9]
