The Jinja Bridge
The New Jinja Bridge (also known as Second Nile Bridge) is built across Nile River connecting the town of Njeru to Jinja, which is part of International Trunk Road (east-west direction) of Kampala (Capital)-Jinja-Malaba (Kenya border) in Uganda. The bridge is the region’s first stay cable bridge and complements the existing Nalubaale Bridge (Owen Falls Dam), which was built in 1954 located 750m downstream.
2.Pakwach bridge
which was built in the 1960s to connect the railway to the West Nile region. The bridge has since developed several cracks.
Gen. Edward Katumba Wamala, the Minister of Works and Transport, said that the government is going to redesign the Pakwach Bridge to address the challenge of floods near the bridge that often cuts off traffic along the Olwiyo—Pakwach road.
Over the past four years, heavy flooding of River Tangi near Pakwach Bridge often cuts off traffic flow along the Karuma-Olwiyo-Pakwach highway affecting the road intersection just 500 meters after the Pakwach bridge in Nwoya district.
During a visit to Pakwach in September last year, the Uganda National Roads Authority Executive Director Allen Kagina said that their engineers had assessed three options which among others included redesigning the current Pakwach bridge to address the ever-flooding area near the bride.
“We have so far assessed three options and those options are going to be assessed by engineers and they will tell us which option is the best”, she noted.
3.The Karuma bridge
Karuma Falls, across the Victoria Nile, immediately west and downstream of the old Karuma Bridge. This is approximately 257 kilometres (160 mi), by road, north of Kampala, Uganda’s capital and largest city. It is located on the Kampala-Gulu Highway, approximately 77 kilometres (48 mi), by road, south of Gulu, the largest city in the Northern region of Uganda. The coordinates of the New Karuma Bridge are 02°14’35.0″N, 32°14’22.0″E (Latitude:2.243056; Longitude:32.239444).
The current Karuma Bridge (the old bridge) was constructed in 1963, one year after Uganda attained independence from Britain.
The old bridge is a narrow, one carriageway (one lane in each direction), without pedestrian or bicycle lanes and no monitoring equipment.The bridge has been the site of several major accidents.
The proposed new bridge would be modeled after the New Jinja Bin the Eastern Region of Uganda. A suspended cable bridge, with bicycle/motorcycle lanes is being considered. The feasibility studies and technical designs for the new bridge have been concluded. The Japan International Coorpertion (JICA) has indicated interest in the project, although it has not confirmed willingness to fund it.