Swanport Bridge

Swanport Bridge
The Swanport Bridge, with the Murray River
Coordinates	35°08′51″S 139°18′32″E / 35.14737°S 139.30886°E / -35.14737; 139.30886Coordinates: 35°08′51″S 139°18′32″E / 35.14737°S 139.30886°E / -35.14737; 139.30886
Carries	Cars and trucks up to B-double
Crosses	Murray River
Locale	Murray Bridge, South Australia
Official name	Swanport Bridge
Named for	Swanport
Owner	Government of South Australia
Maintained by	DPTI
Preceded by	Murray Bridge town bridge
Followed by	Tailem Bend–Jervois ferry
Characteristics
Material	prestressed concrete
Total length	1 kilometre (0.62 mi)
Width	1 lane each way
History
Opened	May 1979 (1979-May)
Location in South Australia

Swanport Bridge is a road bridge on Highway 1 in South Australia, spanning the Murray River about 4 km southeast of Murray Bridge. Constructed in 1979, the bridge connects the communities of Murray Bridge and Tailem Bend.^[1]

Characteristics

The bridge itself is one kilometre in length with two lanes, one for each direction of traffic. It is constructed from prestressed concrete. It serves as a link between the South Eastern Freeway to the west and the Princes Highway continuing to the east, and as such is an integral part of the Adelaide–Melbourne road transport corridor. The bridge was originally intended to be a four lane bridge but to save costs only a two lane bridge was built. Both the South Eastern Freeway to the west of the bridge and the Princes Highway to its east are two lanes each way with a wide median and speed limit of 110 kilometres per hour (68 mph). The bridge itself is only one lane each way with no median strip, and has a speed limit of 80 kilometres per hour (50 mph) since 2015.^[2]

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