Hoddle Bridge, Arch bridge in Melbourne, Australia

Hoddle Bridge is an arch bridge crossing the Yarra River in Melbourne, connecting Richmond and South Yarra. It has five traffic lanes and footpaths on both sides for vehicles and pedestrians.

Construction began in 1937 and finished in 1938, replacing an older footbridge and punt service that had connected the river banks. The new structure was built to handle growing traffic between the two districts.

The bridge is named after Robert Hoddle, the surveyor who laid out Melbourne's street grid. It opened on 22 December 1938, when Premier Albert Dunstan named it, and it replaced a steel Pratt-truss footbridge built in 1895 whose trusses were later reused for a stock bridge over the Maribyrnong River.

The bridge carries five lanes of traffic with footpaths on either side, so pedestrians cross beside the roadway rather than on a separate structure. It sits where Punt Road meets the Yarra, at the junction of the Melbourne, Yarra and Stonnington council areas, with approaches from Richmond to the north and South Yarra to the south.

The 1895 footbridge here used steel Pratt trusses that were later reused for a stock bridge over the Maribyrnong River. The 1938 road bridge cost A£77,009, and its Art Deco wrought-iron balustrade and lamp-topped pylons above each pier end can still be seen.