7-647: The Lewis Bandt Bridge is an Australian feature bridge over the Moorabool River , close to the southern end of Stage 2 of the Geelong Ring Road . Section 2 from the Midland Highway to the Hamilton Highway at Fyansford , (along with Section 1), was officially opened on Sunday, 14 December 2008. Two days of torrential rain beforehand threatened to disrupt the opening, however it went ahead as planned after
14-627: A cessation of the storm. The opening carried was out by Victorian Premier John Brumby , who announced the naming of the bridge as the Lewis Bandt Bridge in honour of the Ford Australia engineer Lewis Bandt who is credited as the inventor of the coupé utility , in Geelong . [REDACTED] Media related to Lewis Bandt Bridge at Wikimedia Commons This article about a bridge in Australia
21-527: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This article about a building or structure in Victoria (state) is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Moorabool River The Moorabool River is a river in Victoria, Australia , which runs for 160 kilometres through several small towns such as Meredith , Anakie , and Staughton Vale. It runs into the Barwon River at Fyansford . It
28-518: Is believed that the name Moorabool derives from an Aboriginal word meaning the cry of a curlew or a ghost. The river features several historic bridges, many built of bluestone in the 19th century. Batesford was originally the site of a ford crossing the Moorabool River. The first bridge was built by the Corio and Bannockburn shire councils in 1846. Provided with a tollgate , the wooden bridge
35-451: The Shire of Corio and Shire of Bannockburn in 1854, down river from the ford, and was tolled until 1877. It was in poor condition by 1898, with load restrictions being put into place. A new bridge was built nearby in 1900 by John Monash and J. T. N. Anderson , the three-arch bridge being the largest Monier reinforced concrete bridge in world at the time. In 1970, a new bridge was built on
42-480: The site of the old wooden bridge to cater for heavier traffic on the Hamilton Highway , with the 1900 bridge being retained for pedestrians. Work on the Geelong Ring Road bridge over the Moorabool River commenced in late 2006. Costing $ 15.5 million, it carries four lanes of traffic and is the largest bridge on the road, with 70 beams and 12 piers. The final span was installed on 6 March 2008. It has been named
49-463: Was located upstream from the ford, but collapsed in 1847. Rebuilt in wood in 1848, it was damaged by flood in 1852 and later repaired. A bluestone bridge was built in 1859, which still exists today as a service road. The current concrete bridge on the Midland Highway was built on a new alignment in 1972. The first river crossing at Fyansford was again a ford. The first wooden bridge was built by
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