Frank Sherwin Bridge Explained

Bridge Name:Frank Sherwin Bridge
Native Name:Droichead Phroinsias Uí Shearbháin
Native Name Lang:Irish
Crosses:River Liffey
Locale:Dublin, Ireland
Design:Girder bridge (concrete)
Designer:Dublin Corporation (Road Design Division)
Preceded:Seán Heuston Bridge
Followed:Rory O'More Bridge
Material:Reinforced concrete
Length:50m
Width:19.7m
Spans:3
Builder:Irishenco Ltd[1]
Open:1982
Coordinates:53.3472°N -6.291°W

Frank Sherwin Bridge [2] is a road bridge spanning the River Liffey in Dublin, Ireland. It joins St. John's Road and the south quays from Heuston Station to Wolfe Tone Quay and Parkgate Street on the Northside.

Designed within Dublin Corporation's "Road Design Division", the bridge is a three-span reinforced concrete structure.[3]

The bridge was opened in 1982 to remove traffic from the much older and narrower Sean Heuston Bridge as part of an extended traffic management project on Dublin's quays.[4] This resulted in reversing the direction of the one-way system on the quays to north quays eastbound/south quays westbound. Prior to the bridge's opening, the south quays carried all eastbound traffic. Traffic coming eastbound from Parkgate Street ran via Benburb Street and Mellowes Bridge. Westbound traffic heading towards St. John's Road West would cross from the north quays via Rory O'Moore Bridge onto Victoria Quay, which had two-way traffic until the Sherwin Bridge opened. Sean Heuston Bridge had weight restrictions that prohibited truck and bus traffic.

The bridge was named for Dublin politician Frank Sherwin (1905–1981).[5]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Frank Sherwin Bridge - Design & Engineering . Dublin City Council . Bridges of Dublin . 4 December 2016 .
  2. Web site: Droichead Phroinsias Uí Shearbháin / Frank Sherwin Bridge . Logainm.ie - Database of Placenames' Commission . 4 December 2016 .
  3. Web site: Frank Sherwin Bridge . Dublin City Council . Bridges of Dublin . 4 December 2016.
  4. Project history of Dublin's River Liffey bridges. Bridge Engineering 156 Issue BE4. Phillips & Hamilton. 16 December 2007. 12 August 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20170812060126/http://www.berthamilton.com/13329.pdf. dead.
  5. Web site: Text of speech by the Taoiseach Bertie Ahern at launch of Frank Sherwin's biography . 7 November 2006 . Department of the Taoiseach.