Carries Road, Pedestrian | Opened 31 October 1934 | |
Similar Yarra River, Hoddle Bridge, Spencer Street Bridge, Church Street Bridge, Hawthorn Railway Bridge | ||
Macrobertson bridge burnley
The MacRobertson Bridge is a road bridge that carries Grange Road from Toorak on the south bank into Burnley, over the Yarra River and the Monash Freeway in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
The first river crossing at the site was Twickenham Ferry, which conveyed passengers and was founded by waterman Jesse Barrow in 1880. it was named for the Twickenham Ferry in London. The ferry survived until 1934, when it was replaced by the MacRobertson Bridge, financed by Sir Macpherson Robertson. When built the bridge was one of two bridges in the world to be the first to use welded steel trusses.
As built the bridge only spanned the Yarra, but in 1967 the South Eastern Arterial was built, running under the northern most span.
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