Bolte Bridge

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Bolte Bridge
The Bolte Bridge from the Melbourne Docklands
Coordinates	37°49′10.12″S 144°55′55.65″E / 37.8194778°S 144.9321250°E / -37.8194778; 144.9321250
Carries	8 lanes (4 inbound, 4 outbound)
Crosses	Yarra River
Locale	Melbourne, Australia
Maintained by	Transurban
Characteristics
Design	Cantilever, box girder bridge
Total length	5000 metres
Width	15.35 metres
Longest span	173 metres
Clearance below	Approx 25 metres
History
Opened	16 August 1999; 25 years ago (1999-08-16)
Statistics
Daily traffic	Approx 50,000
Toll	A$3.42 (one way)
Location

The Bolte Bridge is a large twin cantilever road bridge in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. The Bolte Bridge carries a total of eight lanes of traffic – four lanes northbound and four lanes southbound. While officially only 490 metres in length, the actual structure appears much longer as it forms part of a 5 kilometre elevated roadway between Flemington Road and the West Gate Freeway. It spans the Yarra River and Victoria Harbour in the Docklands precinct to the west of the Melbourne CBD. It forms part of the CityLink system of toll roads that connects the Tullamarine Freeway from the northern suburbs with the West Gate Freeway and the Domain and Burnley tunnels to the Monash Freeway and the south eastern suburbs.^[1] It is named after Victoria's 38th and longest-serving Premier, Sir Henry Bolte.