Foreshore Freeway Bridge
Parts of this article (those related to the status of the bridge) need to be updated.(June 2018) |
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Coordinates | 33°54′53.18″S 18°25′18.50″E / 33.9147722°S 18.4218056°E |
Locale | Cape Town, Western Cape |
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The Foreshore Freeway Bridge, also known as
History
During the 1940s and 1950s the planners and engineers of Cape Town were wrapped up in discussions about proposed road infrastructure on the city's Foreshore and as various alternatives were debated, tensions between
Description
Originally intended as a freeway, the uncompleted bridge or overpass consists of two parallel units - each designed to carry one direction of motor traffic over the city's Central business district (CBD) at north entrance, to avoid the many intersections below. Both lanes on the western side were tarred, and road markings were painted right up to where the bridge stops, which is still visible on Google Earth.[citation needed] On the eastern side, approximately 260 m (853.02 ft) away, the other two ends that would have made the connection jut out and have since been converted to
Future prospects
The Transport for Cape Town initiative announced in 2012 sought the input of design students at the University of Cape Town to find an affordable solution to the unfinished bridge and during a presentation on April 14, 2014 at the
See also
References
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