Dublin City Council has awarded a €6m (£5m) contract to Graham for construction of a new bridge just downstream of O'Connell Bridge.

The Marlborough Street Bridge will be a public transport, cycle and pedestrian bridge linking Marlborough Street and Eden Quay on the north side of the River Liffey to Hawkins Street and Burgh Quay on the south side.

The bridge will carry buses and the LUAS light rail system as well as cycleways and footpaths. It will also carry diverted bus and taxi traffic during the construction of Metro North. When the proposed LUAS line BXD is developed, it will carry the southbound track across the Liffey.

The 26m-wide and 48m-long bridge will have a slender, single-span, smooth concrete structure, with the underside of the bridge designed to be as high above the water as possible so that river traffic is not impeded. The project is scheduled to take 18 months to complete.

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