Silverwater Bridge

Silverwater Bridge
Silverwater Bridge as it crosses the Parramtta River in 2007
Coordinates	33°49′27″S 151°03′05″E / 33.8241°S 151.0513083°E / -33.8241; 151.0513083
Carries	Silverwater Road Motor vehicles Pedestrians Bicycles
Crosses	Parramatta River
Locale	Silverwater, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Owner	Transport for NSW
Characteristics
Design	Box girder
Material	Concrete and metal
History
Opened	10 November 1962 (1962-11-10)
Statistics
Daily traffic	29,000 (2012)
Location

References
^[1]^[2]^[3]

Silverwater Bridge is a concrete box girder bridge^[2] that spans the Parramatta River west of the central business district in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. The bridge carries Silverwater Road (A6) over the river to link Silverwater in the south to Rydalmere and Ermington in the north.

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Description

The Silverwater Bridge opened on 10 November 1962,^[4] and was the first concrete box girder bridge built in New South Wales.^[2]^[3]

It was the first of the two major bridges needed to construct the Hornsby-Heathcote county road (the other being the Alfords Point Bridge), and was the second project undertaken in the construction of this county road (the first being Olympic Drive Lidcombe, between Boorea and Church Streets, in 1959).

In conjunction with the construction of the bridge, Silverwater Road between Parramatta Road and the bridge was widened to six lanes, and was extended across the new bridge to connect to Victoria Road at Ermington.

The origin of the suburb's name, and subsequently the bridge's name, is unknown. It may have been a reference to the nearby Parramatta River, which could have provided silver reflections of light off the water.^[5]

Other crossings over the Parramatta River include the Gladesville Bridge and Ryde Bridge.

Gallery

Silverwater Bridge, looking downriver, in 2007.
Silverwater Bridge, looking upriver, in 2006.
Silverwater Bridge at dusk, in 2018

References

^ "Average Daily Traffic Volumes" (PDF). NSW Roads & Maritime Services (PDF). Government of New South Wales. 2012. Retrieved 12 January 2015.
^ ^a ^b ^c Kass, Terry (February 2006). "RTA Thematic History: A component of the RTA Heritage and Conservation Register" (PDF). NSW Roads & Maritime Services (PDF) (2nd ed.). Government of New South Wales. p. 53. Retrieved 12 January 2015.
^ ^a ^b RiverCat (9 December 1935). "Parramatta River Bridges" (PDF). Australian Society for History of Engineering and Technology. Retrieved 15 January 2015.
^ "Parramatta's history: A timeline" (PDF) (PDF). Parramatta City Council. 2010. Retrieved 12 January 2015.
^ Pollen, Frances, ed. (1990). The Book of Sydney Suburbs. Australia: Angus & Robertson Publishers. ISBN 0-207-14495-8.

v t e Bridges in Greater Sydney, New South Wales
Road	Alfords Point Anzac Bennelong Bernie Banton Captain Cook De Burghs Endeavour Fig Tree Fullers Gladesville Iron Cove Lansdowne Lennox Long Gully Bridge Milperra Peats Ferry Bridge Roseville Ryde Silverwater Spit Sydney Harbour Tarban Creek Tom Uglys Tunks Creek Victoria Windsor Woronora
Railway	Como Hawkesbury River John Whitton
Pedestrian	Albert Cotter Boothtown Aqueduct Macquarie Culvert Meadowbank Pyrmont Yandhai
Closed	Glebe Island

v t e Geography of Parramatta River
Sources	Toongabbie Creek Darling Mills Creek
Tributaries: left	Vineyard Creek Subiaco Creek Archer Creek Smalls Creek Charity Creek Lane Cove River
Tributaries: right	Duck River Haslams Creek Powells Creek Iron Cove Creek Hawthorne Canal
Islands	Rodd Island Snapper Island Spectacle Island Cockatoo Island
Parramatta River ferry services	Parramatta Rydalmere Sydney Olympic Park Meadowbank Kissing Point Cabarita Abbotsford Chiswick Huntleys Point
River crossings	Rings Bridge Bernie Banton Bridge Lennox Bridge Barry Wilde Bridge Elizabeth Street Footbridge Macarthur Bridge Clyde-Carlingford railway bridge Thackeray Bridge (footbridge) Silverwater Bridge James Ruse Drive bridge John Whitton Bridge Meadowbank Railway Bridge Ryde Bridge Mortlake Ferry Gladesville Bridge
River inlets and bays	Homebush Bay Kissing Point Bay Morrisons Bay Kendall Bay Glades Bay France Bay Exile Bay Canada Bay Kings Bay Hen and Chicken Bay Looking Glass Bay Abbotsford Bay Wallumatta Bay Five Dock Bay Lukes Bay Drummoyne Bay Iron Cove
Suburbs: north	North Parramatta Rydalmere Ermington Melrose Park Meadowbank Putney Tennyson Point Gladesville Henley Huntleys Point Huntleys Cove Hunters Hill Woolwich Greenwich
Suburbs: south	Parramatta Camellia Silverwater Newington Wentworth Point Sydney Olympic Park Liberty Grove Rhodes Concord Mortlake Breakfast Point Cabarita Canada Bay Five Dock Wareemba Abbotsford Chiswick Drummoyne Russell Lea Rodd Point Haberfield Lilyfield Rozelle Birchgrove

Road infrastructure in Sydney

Motorways

Sydney Orbital Network	Cahill Expressway Eastern Distributor Gore Hill Freeway General Holmes Drive Southern Cross Drive Sydney Harbour Tunnel Warringah Freeway M2 Hills Motorway Lane Cove Tunnel M4 Motorway M5 Motorway Westlink M7
WestConnex	Westconnex M4 WestConnex M8 Iron Cove Link
Other motorways	Pacific Motorway Princes Motorway M4 Motorway Western Distributor NorthConnex Hume Motorway Cross City Tunnel