M4 motorway Usk bridge
The M4 motorway Usk bridge (or St. Julians Bridge) carries the M4 motorway across the River Usk in the city of Newport in the United Kingdom.
- The bridge is actually two separate 450-foot (140 m) bridges for the eastbound and westbound carriageways.
- When travelling westbound, the bridges lead directly into the twin 1,200-foot-long (370 m) Brynglas Tunnels.
- Work commenced on both the bridge and the tunnels on September 10, 1962, two months after work commenced on the George Street Bridge further downstream.
- The entire Newport bypass section of the M4 (junctions 24 to 28) finally opened in 1967.
In 1989 a further two crossings (east/westbound) were added as a connection from the M4 (at the newly-constructed junction 25a) to the north/southbound A4042 Heidenheim Drive[1].
References
- ^ M4/Newport-Shrewsbury Trunk Road A4042 (Relief of Brynglas Tunnels and Malpas Road) Order 1989