Hardbrücke | |
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 Hardbrücke,Hardbrücke railway station, andPrime Tower | |
| Coordinates | 47°23′07″N8°31′02″E / 47.38514°N 8.51717°E /47.38514; 8.51717 |
| Crosses | RiverLimmat Zürich–Baden railway line andZurich–Winterthur railway line (Käferberg Tunnel variant) Various streets |
| Locale | City ofZürich, Canton of Zürich, Switzerland |
| Preceded by | Hardbrücketruss bridge |
| Characteristics | |
| Design | Girder bridge |
| Material | Concrete |
| Total length | 1,350 m (4,430 ft) |
| Width | 17.5 m (57 ft) to 28.4 m (93 ft) |
| History | |
| Construction start | 1969 |
| Opened | 1972 |
| Statistics | |
| Daily traffic | 70,000 (2009) |
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TheHardbrücke (Swiss German:Hardbrugg) is a 1,350 metres (4,430 ft) longroad bridge and important north–south connection in theSwiss city ofZürich. As of 2009, 70,000 vehicles use the bridge daily.
From north to south, the bridge crossesWipkingerplatz in theWipkingen quarter, theRiver Limmat, a couple of roads of theIndustriequartier (includingEscher-Wyss-Platz), therailway tracks of theZürich–Baden andKäferberg lines (including arailway station), numerousholding tracks of the track field precedingZürich HB, the formergoods station (mostly removed) and a road (Hohlstrasse) in Zürich'sDistrict 4. Over the Limmat, the Hardbrücke forms an upper level to the lower levelWipkingerbrücke, a road/tramway bridge.
There are severalexit and entrance ramps that link the bridge to the streets below. Some junctions on the bridge havetraffic lights.
The bridge (German:Brücke) gets its name from the Germantoponym (Flurname)Hard, meaning hill or forest, used for the area where the bridge is located.
Hard is part of the name of several nearby places, such asHardplatz,Hardturm,Hardau,Herdernstrasse (plural ofHard), or theHard quarter.
The firstHardbrücke, atruss bridge linkingHardplatz withPfingstweidstrasse, was built in 1897.[1][2]
Construction of the currentgirder bridge commenced in 1969 and it was opened in 1972.[3] It was built as a preliminary traffic solution as discussions for anexpressway through Zürich's city center went on. The Y-shaped core section of this expressway (Zürcher Expressstrassen-Y [de]) was never built. Until the opening of theUetliberg Tunnel and thehighway bypassing Zürich to the West (Westumfahrung) in 2009, all north-/south-bound through traffic took the route over theHardbrücke.[2] The bridge, which remains an important innercity route up to this day, underwent a major refurbishment between 2009 and 2011.[2]
Between 2015 and 2017,tramway tracks were installed on the section crossing the railway tracks, allowing the extension ofZürich tram route 8 fromHardplatz toHardturm on the other side of the tracks.[1][4] A further, northward extension of the tramway tracks overHardbrücke and up toBucheggplatz andMilchbuck, which would have served two new tram routes (Rosengartentram), was rejected by a referendum in 2020.[5]
Since 1982, there is arailway station below theHardbrücke, which is namedZürich Hardbrücke after the bridge. The station is located on the Zürich–Baden and Zürich–Winterthur (Käferberg Tunnel variant) lines.[6] It is served by regional trains (S-Bahn) ofZürich S-Bahn. The station is one of the busiest in the Zürich S-Bahn network. In terms of passenger numbers, it is ranked 11th in the country (as of 2018).[7] The station can be accessed either from the bridge or via anunderpass. There are stairs andelevators in both cases.
The bridge is used both byprivate andpublic transport.[2]
Above the railway station, there is atram and bus stop (calledBahnhof Hardbrücke) served byVBZtram route8,trolleybus routes33 and72, andbus route 83.[8] The tram route leaves the bridge just north of the stop, while all trolleybus and bus routes continue northward on the bridge. Additional bus stops on theHardbrücke exist atSchiffbau andEscher-Wyss-Platz.
The bridge is also a main bike route on the section crossing the railway tracks. Pedestrians and cyclists share the sidewalks on either side of the bridge, which are protected by a concrete wall from car traffic.
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