{"id":30207,"date":"2024-01-24T13:10:11","date_gmt":"2024-01-24T03:10:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infrastructuremagazine.com.au\/?p=50969"},"modified":"2024-01-24T13:10:11","modified_gmt":"2024-01-24T03:10:11","slug":"work-begins-on-136m-bridge-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=30207","title":{"rendered":"Work begins on $136M bridge project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The sod has been turned on a Western Australian bridge project, marking the commencement of construction on the $136 million upgrade.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mandurah Estuary Bridge Duplication<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is jointly funded by the Australian and Western Australian Governments, through equal contributions of $68 million, with work expected to be completed by the end of 2025.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The project includes a second two-lane bridge being built on the south site of the existing structure, designed to provide additional traffic lanes for the original bridge.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In addition to the new bridge, a four metre wide path will also be built to provide more accessible recreational activities from the structure, including fishing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The bridge will be built using the incremental launch method with 15 concrete bridge segments being constructed on site.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">More than 33,000 vehicles use the existing bridge daily. Western Australian Minister for Transport, Rita Saffioti, said the duplication will play an important role in easing congestion.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThe duplication of the bridge will reduce congestion, improve safety and bring about time savings for people who need to commute in and out of Mandurah.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThis bridge experiences high traffic volumes with around 33,000 vehicles per day due to the population growth in the Mandurah and Peel regions, so the duplication will address these issues.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Mandurah Estuary Bridge was constructed in the 1980s with the design leaving scope for future duplication, set to be completed next year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>Featured image: Concept map of the Mandurah Estuary Bridge Duplication. Image credit: Roads Australia.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The sod has been turned on a Western Australian bridge project, marking the commencement of construction on the $136 million [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1161,471,1291,163,8203,8223],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bridges","category-news","category-projects","category-rail-industry-news-australia-new-zealand","category-spotlight","category-wa"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30207"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30207\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30208,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30207\/revisions\/30208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}