Bolte Bridge

Bolte Bridge
The bridge in 2007, from Docklands
Coordinates	37°49′10″S 144°55′56″E
Carries	Melbourne CityLink (Western) (vehicles only) (pedestrians and cyclists prohibited)
Crosses	Yarra River and Victoria Harbour
Locale	Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Begins	Port Melbourne (south)
Ends	Docklands (north)
Other name	Yarra River Bridge
Named for	Sir Henry Bolte
Maintained by	Transurban
Preceded by	Webb Bridge
Followed by	West Gate Bridge
Characteristics
Design	Cantilever box girder bridge
Material	Prestressed concrete
Total length	490 m (1,610 ft)
Width	15.35 m (50.4 ft)
Longest span	173 m (568 ft)
No. of spans	4
Clearance below	c.25 m (82 ft)
No. of lanes	8 lanes (4 inbound, 4 outbound)
History
Architect	Denton Corker Marshall
Designer	Hyder/MBK
Constructed by	Baulderstone Hornibrook
Built	1996–1999
Opened	16 August 1999 (1999-08-16)
Statistics
Daily traffic	c. 50,000
Toll	A$4.17 (one way, as of June 2026)
Location
Interactive map of Bolte Bridge

The Bolte Bridge is a twin cantilever road bridge across the Yarra River and Victoria Harbour, located in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. The bridge carries the Melbourne CityLink (Western Link) via eight lanes of traffic – four lanes northbound and four lanes southbound.

While officially only 490 metres (1,610 ft) long, the actual structure appears much longer as it forms part of a five-kilometre (3.1 mi) elevated roadway between Flemington Road and the West Gate Freeway. In the south, approaches to the bridge start in the Port Melbourne precinct and cross the river to terminate north of the Docklands precinct, to the west of the Melbourne city centre.

The bridge and adjoining roadway forms part of the CityLink system of toll roads that connects the Tullamarine Freeway from the northern suburbs with the West Gate Freeway and the Domain and Burnley tunnels to the Monash Freeway and the south eastern suburbs.

Completed in 1999, the bridge was named in honour of Sir Henry Bolte, Victoria's longest-serving Premier.