The Samuel Beckett Bridge

by Joe Cashin

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The Samuel Beckett Bridge

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Joe Cashin

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The Samuel Beckett Bridge links the northside and southside of the city over the River Liffey in the Dublin Docklands.The bridge has four traffic lanes, with cycle tracks and footpaths on either side. It will also be capable of opening through an angle of 90 degrees allowing ships to pass through. This will be achieved through a rotational mechanism housed in the base of the pylon.
The bridge is a cable-stayed, steel box girder structure with a span of 120 metres between north and south quay walls. An asymmetric shape will be provided through the positioning of the pylon outside the navigation channel at a point approximately 28 metres from the south quay.
The total cost of the project is estimated at around €59.95 million, which also included a major upgrade of the approach roads.
Samuel Barclay Beckett (13 April 1906 – 22 December 1989) was an Irish avant-garde writer, dramatist and poet, writing in English and French. Beckett's work offers a bleak outlook on human culture and both formally and philosophically became increasingly minimalist in his later career. Beckett was awarded the 1969 Nobel Prize in Literature "for his writing, which—in new forms for the novel and drama—in the destitution of modern man acquires its elevation".

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April 20th, 2013

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