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Nelson Mandela Bridge is a bridge in Johannesburg, South Africa. It is the fourth of five bridges which cross the railway lines and sidings located just west of Johannesburg Park Station, the first being the Johan Rissik Bridge adjacent to the station. It was completed in 2003, and cost R38 million [1] to build. [2] [3] [unreliable source?]
T he Nelson Mandela Bridge is located at the heart of downtown Johannesburg, a gleaming apex in the city sky. The area is part of a massive rejuvenation drive, filled with sites of cultural and historic significance – and the bridge is the conduit for all traffic to and from the area.
Opened by Nelson Mandela in 2003. The Nelson Mandela Bridge is a relatively new addition to the Johannesburg skyline, but has already gained iconic status, with an impressive 295 metre span that is lit up in all the colours of the rainbow at night.
The largest cable-stayed bridge in South Africa, the 284 metre long Nelson Mandela Bridge, starts virtually at the end of Jan Smuts Avenue and links Constitutional Hill precinct in Braamfontein to the Cultural precinct in Newtown, in the heart of the city’s inner city renewal project.
This modernistic new overpass symbolically links the old and new as it ushers traffic into the heart of rejuvenated downtown Johannesburg. The structure, which cost R38-million, is the largest cable-stayed bridge in southern Africa.
What is it? It’s an symbol of South Africa’s new democracy, and a handy conduit from Joburg’s northern suburbs to the urban renewal experiment that is Newtown.
South Africa, Africa. Johannesburg. Opened two days after Mandela’s 85th birthday in 2003, this cable-stayed bridge is the longest of its kind in Southern Africa and an icon of the rejuvenated city centre. Suggest an edit to this attraction.
