Ria Bridge

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Ria Bridge

Puente de la Ría
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Ria Bridge in Pontevedra
Coordinates 42°25′35″N8°39′16″W / 42.42639°N 8.65444°W / 42.42639; -8.65444 (Ria Bridge)
CarriesMotor vehicles
Crosses Ria de Pontevedra, Lérez River
Locale Pontevedra, Spain
Official namePonte da Ría
Characteristics
Design Rigid-frame bridge, box girder bridge
Material Reinforced concrete
Pre-stressed concrete
Total length700 m (2,300 ft)
Width25 m (82 ft)
History
Construction start1989
Construction end1992
Opened25 March 1992
Statistics
Daily traffic 50,000 vehicles per day
TollNo
Location
Ria Bridge

The Ria Bridge is a rigid frame bridge with V-shaped legs and a box girder road bridge that crosses the Ria de Pontevedra in the city of Pontevedra, Spain. It is part of the AP-9 motorway and opened in 1992.

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Location

The bridge is located between the Mollavao neighbourhood in Pontevedra and the place called A Puntada (in the neighbouring municipality of Poio). [1] It is located in the western part of the city, which opens onto the sea, in the estuary formed by the mouth of the Lérez river in the ria de Pontevedra. [2]

History

Work on the bridge began on 21 December 1989 for the AP-9 motorway and as part of the city's western bypass. [3] [4]

It was designed by the engineers Leonardo Fernández Troyano, Javier Manterola Armisén and Amando López Padilla. Construction began with the central pier (the bridge's reference pier) and a construction method based on cantilever construction using temporary cable-stays. The bridge was inaugurated on 25 March 1992. [5] [6]

The construction and opening of the bridge was controversial because of its impact on the landscape and the significant change in the city's views to the sea. The name "Ria Bridge" was given to it by Audasa, the concessionary company of the AP-9 motorway. [7] [1]

Description

It is a 700-metre long bridge with two independent carriageways, made of prestressed concrete for the deck and reinforced concrete for the piers and abutments. [1] [8]

It is a motorway bridge with twin V-shaped piers as the only intermediate support in its central part, whose foundations lie in the centre of the bed of the Ria de Pontevedra. It is divided into three different sections. The intermediate section has two main spans of 120 m in length with a box girder of variable depth. A seagull solution was adopted for the shape of the deck: it has a maximum flange on the central pier, which decreases towards the side piers of the 120-metre spans, reaching the minimum flange near them. The side spans of the bridge are 40 m long with a constant depth box girder. The spans at both ends of the bridge form the bridge access viaducts. [9] The piers of the southern section of the viaduct pass over a small section of the Pontevedra seafront promenade.

The Ría bridge is toll-free and serves as a western bypass between the north and south of the city of Pontevedra, in the section between the O Pino neighbourhood and the fire station. [7] Around 50,000 vehicles cross the bridge every day. [5]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 "El puente de la AP-9 renovará su faldón". Diario de Pontevedra (in Spanish). 15 July 2021.
  2. ↑ "Pontevedra, la ciudad de los puentes". El Español (in Spanish). 25 March 2021.
  3. ↑ "El nuevo puente entre Lérez y Monte Porreiro tendrá un diseño singular". La Voz de Galicia (in Spanish). 6 December 2007.
  4. ↑ "Alrededor de 37.000 vehículos circulan a diario por la zona". La Voz de Galicia (in Spanish). 27 June 2014.
  5. 1 2 "La circunvalación sobre la ría cumple 30 años como el segundo tramo más usado de la AP-9". Faro (in Spanish). 8 February 2022.
  6. ↑ Fernández Troyano, Manterola Armisén & López Padilla 1995 , p. 9-14
  7. 1 2 "El puente de la AP-9 cumple veinte años con menos de 47.000 vehículos al día al caer sus tráficos un 5%". Faro (in Spanish). 16 September 2012.
  8. ↑ "Enfado en Mollavao por el mal estado del viaducto de la AP-9: "Se cae a cachos"". Faro (in Spanish). 27 January 2021.
  9. ↑ Fernández Troyano, Manterola Armisén & López Padilla 1995 , p. 9-14

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