Peats Ferry Bridge

The Peats Ferry Bridge is a steel truss bridge that carries the Pacific Highway (B83) across the Hawkesbury River, between Kangaroo Point and Mooney Mooney Point, located 40 kilometres (25 mi) north of Sydney in New South Wales, Australia.

The Peats Ferry Bridge is a single carriageway with one lane in each direction in state highway conditions; and permits the carriage of motor vehicles, pedestrians and bicycles.

The adjacent Brooklyn Bridge is a dual carriageway with three lanes in each direction of motorway grade-separated conditions.

The bridge deck to these spans is also cast in situ concrete but is believed not to act compositely with steel, as might be used in more modern construction.

[1] North of the bridge itself a causeway some 220 metres (722 ft) long was built in shallow water to complete the link to the northern bank.

The cutting foot of the caisson was cast on a barge in sheltered water and then floated out and sunk to the river bed within its own cofferdam.

Peat's Ferry Road Bridge is of State significance owing to its historical associations and technical and engineering qualities.

The original parapets, however, have been partly removed and have had Armco barriers added over the truss span lengths.