The Rewa Bridge is a four-lane concrete girder road bridge over the Rewa River joining Suva and

Nausori Nausori () is a town in Fiji. It had a population of 57,866 at the 2017 census. This makes it the fourth most populous municipality in the country. Situated 19 kilometers outside of Suva, it forms one pole of the burgeoning Suva-Nausori corrid ...

in Fiji. The bridge has a length of , comprising seven internal spans of 49.5 m and end spans of 39.25 m. It is the longest bridge in Fiji and the longest bridge of its type in the South Pacific. The bridge was funded by a partnership between the

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and the government of Fiji and was constructed by

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for the government of Fiji between October 2003 and August 2006 for a cost of FJ$29.7 million.

Old Rewa Bridge

The new Rewa bridge replaces a 60-year-old structurally unsound steel bridge. As of 2011, the old Rewa bridge is still in existence. There has been a proposal put forward by the Nausori Town Council to use the old bridge as flea market. However, in 2011, the Fijian Ministry of Works allocated FJ$1million in order to dismantle the bridge in order so that the materials can be used for other bridges in the country.

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