Fairfield Bridge
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| Design | Tied-arch |
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| Piers in water | 2 |
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| Daily traffic | 2002 19,052 2005 18,550 2010 19,100 2015 18,900 2020 17,700 2021 16,900 2022 17,300[1] |
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Fairfield Bridge is a tied-arch bridge on the Waikato River in Fairfield, Hamilton, New Zealand. It is one of six bridges in the city.[2] It spans from River Road, on the east bank of the river, to Victoria Street, on the west side.[3]
It was registered as a Category I 'Historic Place' with the New Zealand Historic Places Trust on 30 August 1990.[4] The Great Race starts just north of the bridge, with the rowers passing under it during the race.[5]
There were days when drovers would drive stock over the main Fairfield Bridge to Frankton saleyards.[6]
Design and construction
The bridge is 139 metres (457 ft) long, and has two land spans,[7] and three arches which are 70 centimetres (28 in) wide, 40 metres (130 ft) long and 7.9 metres (26 ft) above the road at their highest point.[8][9] The road is 20 ft (6.1 m) wide, and the footpaths 5 ft (1.5 m).[10] The arches and spans are made from reinforced concrete.[7]
It was designed by Stanley Jones of Auckland, and Roose Shipping started construction in August 1934.[7] The bridge was opened in April 1937 by the Minister of Public Works Bob Semple.[7] It was the fourth largest reinforced concrete tied-arch bridge in New Zealand, and the second over the Waikato River.[9]
When the building of a bridge in the Fairfield suburb was proposed, many people felt that it would seldom be used.[7] At that time it was just north of the city boundary, in Waikato County.[10] Sixty-five years later, in 2002, there were about 20,000 vehicles travelling across the bridge each day.[11]
During the building of foundations for the bridges, an excavator came across a burial cave in the bank of the river. The preserved heads of several Māori were found in it.[12] In 1991 a reconstruction project costing NZ$1.1 million took place, as the bridge was suffering the effects of concrete cancer,[7] discovered in 1980.[13]
During January 2011, the bridge was closed for three weeks for maintenance.[14]
Motorcycle stunt
In 2009 Jonathan Bennett of the Mormon Few Stunt Crew was charged, and in 2010 was convicted,[15] for dangerous driving for riding a motorcycle on the arches of Fairfield Bridge.[16][17] The stunt was filmed and subsequently posted on YouTube.[18] He was fined $500 and disqualified from riding for 6 months.[19]
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References
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- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Hamilton City Traffic Counts". data-waikatolass.opendata.arcgis.com. Retrieved 15 December 2023.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Hamilton's bridges". Hamilton City Council. Archived from the original on 8 December 2015. Retrieved 1 December 2015.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Fairfield Bridge, Waikato". Google Maps. Retrieved 11 June 2010.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Fairfield Bridge". Heritage New Zealand. Retrieved 7 June 2010.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Anderson, Ian (28 September 2009). "Waikato hold out Oxford". Waikato Times. Stuff. Archived from the original on 5 June 2010. Retrieved 8 June 2010.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Neville Grinter (December 1976). Hamilton and the Waikato. A. H. & A. W. Reed. ISBN 9780589009717.
- ^ a b c d e f Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Fairfield Bridge". Hamilton City Libraries. Archived from the original on 20 May 2010. Retrieved 7 June 2010.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Neems, Jeff (5 September 2009). "Daredevil stunt rider takes the high road". Waikato Times. Stuff. Archived from the original on 7 September 2009. Retrieved 8 June 2010.
- ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Henshall, F. P. (10 April 1948). "The Fairfield Bridge, Hamilton". New Zealand Engineering. 3 (4): 387–389. ISSN 0028-808X.
- ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Parliamentary Papers | Appendix to the Journals of the House of Representatives | 1937 Session I PUBLIC WORKS STATEMENT (BY THE HON. R. SEMPLE, MINISTER OF PUBLIC WORKS". paperspast.natlib.govt.nz National Library of New Zealand. Retrieved 16 June 2017.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Water levels may affect Hamilton bridge". The New Zealand Herald. 13 November 2002. Retrieved 8 June 2010.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Wintec – A History of the Land on Which Our City Campus Sits" (PDF). Waikato Institute of Technology. Archived from the original (PDF) on 23 July 2011. Retrieved 9 June 2010.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Swarbrick, Nancy (26 May 2010). "Waikato places – Hamilton east of the river". Te Ara: The Encyclopedia of New Zealand. Retrieved 10 June 2010.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Road works and the impact on traffic". Hamilton City Council. Archived from the original on 24 November 2010. Retrieved 19 January 2011.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Leaman, Aaron (3 April 2010). "Bike stunt a bridge too far". Waikato Times. Stuff. Archived from the original on 6 April 2010. Retrieved 8 June 2010.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Stunt rider charged over driving". The New Zealand Herald. 29 September 2009. Retrieved 8 June 2010.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Brennan, Nicola (13 February 2010). "Judge shocked at biker's bridge stunt". Waikato Times. Stuff. Archived from the original on 16 February 2010. Retrieved 8 June 2010.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."The stunt that landed a prankster in court". Close Up. Television New Zealand. 1 April 2010. Archived from the original on 4 April 2010. Retrieved 8 June 2010.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Skateboarder's risky Fairfield Bridge stunt fails". Stuff. 28 February 2018. Retrieved 17 March 2021.
External links
- Photos of construction [1] [2] and [3] Script error: No such module "webarchive".
- 1941 photo showing cattle and houses
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