While half a million of us meandered across the Sydney Harbour Bridge yesterday, today is the official anniversary of its opening 75 years ago. The bridge has provided a wonderful link between the two sides of the city and is a monument not only to the skill of the builders, and designers but more so to the foresight of the ‘city fathers’ who allowed the bridge design in its present form to be built.
Despite the immense increase in traffic over the past three quarters of a century, the bridge has performed its duties quietly and with little fuss… and remarkably few closures!
Admittedly the Harbour Tunnel with its four lanes have taken a lot of the ‘through’ traffic away but without the bridge we’d be in dire straights… it carries a huge amount of traffic!
We walked across the bridge yesterday as part of the faceless crowd, but I’ll write more on that later… for now I’m just saying Happy Birthday to the bridge 🙂
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