West Gate Bridge

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cantilever bridge road bridge steel box-girder bridge

West Gate Bridge is a major steel box-girder road bridge in Melbourne, Australia, known for carrying heavy traffic between the city’s inner west and the central business district and for the tragic collapse during its construction in 1970.

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All labels observed (3)

Label	Occurrences
West Gate Bridge canonical	3
Bolte Bridge	1
West Gate Bridge collapse (1970) inquiry	1

Statements (43)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	cantilever bridge ⓘ road bridge ⓘ steel box-girder bridge ⓘ
carries	motor vehicle traffic ⓘ multi-lane road traffic ⓘ
city	Melbourne ⓘ
collapseDate	15 October 1970 ⓘ
collapseFatalities	35 ⓘ
connects	Central Business District of Melbourne ⓘ surface form: Melbourne central business district inner western suburbs of Melbourne ⓘ
constructionStartDate	1968 ⓘ
country	Australia ⓘ
crosses	Yarra River NERFINISHED ⓘ
design	box girder ⓘ
designedBy	Freeman Fox & Partners ⓘ surface form: Freeman Fox and Partners
engineeringSignificance	major long-span box-girder bridge in Australia ⓘ
function	urban arterial road link ⓘ
hasApproach	CityLink and CBD road network ⓘ West Gate Freeway ⓘ
hasLaneCount	multiple traffic lanes in each direction ⓘ
hasToll	no ⓘ
heritageStatus	associated with industrial heritage of Melbourne ⓘ
importance	primary western road gateway to Melbourne CBD ⓘ
locatedInTimeZone	Australian Eastern Standard Time ⓘ
location	Australia ⓘ Melbourne ⓘ Victoria ⓘ
maintainedBy	VicRoads ⓘ
material	steel ⓘ
memorialFor	workers killed in 1970 collapse ⓘ
namedAfter	West Gate Freeway ⓘ
notableEvent	West Gate Bridge collapse ⓘ
notableFor	heavy commuter and freight traffic ⓘ one of Australia’s worst industrial accidents ⓘ
opened	1978 ⓘ
openedToTraffic	November 1978 ⓘ
partOf	M1 freeway ⓘ
partOfNetwork	National Highway network of Australia ⓘ surface form: National Highway network in Australia
region	Port Phillip Bay ⓘ surface form: Port Phillip Bay area
safetyImprovementsAfter	1970 collapse ⓘ
spans	Yarra River ⓘ surface form: lower Yarra River
trafficDirection	bidirectional ⓘ
usedFor	access to Melbourne’s port and industrial areas ⓘ

Referenced by (5)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Yarra River → crossedBy → West Gate Bridge ⓘ

this entity surface form: Bolte Bridge

Freeman Fox & Partners → notableWork → West Gate Bridge ⓘ

Freeman Fox & Partners → designed → West Gate Bridge ⓘ

Freeman Fox & Partners → associatedWith → West Gate Bridge ⓘ

this entity surface form: West Gate Bridge collapse (1970) inquiry