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The Harbour Bridge is in Sydney, the bridge connects the central
business district with the residential areas and the north shore
commercial both situated on Sydney Harbour. On the above picture
you can have a view of the bridge from down. Till 1967 the
Harbour Bridge was Sydney’s tallest structure. The Sydney
Harbour Bridge is considered as the largest single arch bridge
of the world according to the Guinness Records. The Bridge has
six traffic lanes on its main roadway, two lanes of road
traffic, which were in the past two tram tracks, a footpath on
the east side, a bicycle path on the west side and two railway
tracks. The top of the bridge is one hundred and thirty four
metres above the harbour. As from 1815 there have been plans
made to construct a bridge. In 1890 it can be said that the
current bridge started to be built. In 1900 there were designs
asked but no formal designs were accepted till 1911 and John
Bradfield was decided as chief engineer of the project for the
bridge. The design of John Bradfield was based on the Hell Gate
Bridge of New York. |
