Nyali Bridge

The Nyali Bridge is a concrete girder bridge connecting the town of Mombasa on Mombasa Island to the mainland of Kenya. The bridge crosses Tudor Creek a tidal inlet to the north-east of the island. The bridge is considered one of three road hyperlinks out of Mombasa the others being the Kipevu and Makupa Causeways.

The Likoni Ferry affords a third transport link to the island, and is located at the southern tip. The mainland approach to the bridge serves as a police checkpoint in each instruction. It is 391.65 metres long and 26.3 metres extensive with a complete of six lanes. The principal bridge is 330 metres prestressed non-stop container girder over three spans with the centre span of 150 metres. The outer spans are 90 metres every. The bridge is founded on piled basis. The more moderen Nyali Bridge consists of an approach bridge with three spans totalling 61.Sixty five metres whose superstructure is truly reinforced concrete beams and deck. Since its crowning glory in 1980, no periodic preservation changed into performed to the bridge until 2005 while essential repairs to the bridge were performed. The repairs covered post tensioning the container girder and shear strengthening using crack sealing and use of steel plates at the inner face of the box girder.3