13 May 2024: BAM have been awarded the main contract on this project
21 Nov 2022: A tender process for construction has been launched today.
29 Jun 2021: The government has announced €3 million in funding to progress work on the cross-border Narrow Water Bridge.
The money from the Shared Island Fund will see the project brought to tender stage, based on the current design of the bridge and existing planning permission.
Planning permission is in place for a 280m cable-stayed bridge, anchored by two towers at either end, for car and cycle traffic.
The proposed bridge would connect the A2 Newry to Warrenpoint dual carriageway in Northern Ireland with the R173 at Omeath in the Republic and would have the ability to allow for passage of ships through and on to the Newry Canal.
Subject to all the required processes, construction of the project is expected to begin in 2023.
Tender
Narrow Water Bridge project a proposed bridge link between the Cooley Peninsula area in County Louth and the Warrenpoint and Mourne area in County Down. It is a cable-stayed bridge with rolling bascule opening span that enables tall ships, leisure craft and other marine vessels access to the Victoria Lock and the Albert Basin in Newry, Co. Down. It also comprises associated roadworks, earthworks, drainage, mechanical and electrical works, retaining walls, buildings, a navigation beacon, access roads, services diversions, fendering and boundary treatment.
Narrow Water Bridge is a asymmetric cable-stayed bridge with rolling bascule opening span. The south span is approximately 138.35m and the north span is approximately 56.8m giving a total length of approximately 195m. The structure is supported by asymmetric back-ward inclined towers, with the higher tower located on the southern side of the crossing and is located on the centre line of the bridge. The lower twin towers on the northern side form part of the rolling bascule opening span.
A control building is proposed on the southern approach to the bridge to facilitate the opening of the bascule bridge. Signage, barriers and wig-wags will be provided in advance of the structure to inform road users of the bridge opening and to prevent road users from accessing the bridge during the bridge opening operation.
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