Charles Grimes Bridge, Road bridge in Docklands, Melbourne, Australia

Charles Grimes Bridge crosses the Yarra River with two separate roadways that link the Footscray and Johnson areas to the docklands. The structure carries eight traffic lanes total and provides pedestrian paths on both sides for river crossings.

Construction began in the 1970s under the Country Roads Board and was initially called Johnson Street Bridge. The current name was adopted later to honor the early explorer associated with the river's discovery.

The bridge is named after Charles Grimes, the New South Wales surveyor general who was the first European to see the Yarra River. It carried the name Johnson Street Bridge from its opening on 4 August 1978 until it was renamed in 1983. The Jim Stynes Bridge, opened in 2014, passes beneath it for pedestrians and cyclists.

The bridge is open daily for vehicles and pedestrians and serves as a main connection between several important streets in the area. Walkers will find wide paths that provide safe crossing access across the river.

The bridge required complex computer modeling during its design phase to handle its curved alignment and varying span widths. This early application of computational analysis in the 1970s was noteworthy for Australian engineering at the time.