ANZAC Bridge
Coordinates: 33 ° 52 ′ 10 ″ S , 151 ° 11 ′ 9 ″ O
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| Official name | ANZAC Bridge | |
| use | Vehicular traffic | |
| Crossing of | Johnstons Bay | |
| place | Sydney | |
| construction | Cable-stayed bridge | |
| overall length | 805 m | |
| width | 32.2 m | |
| Longest span | 345 m | |
| opening | 3rd December 1995 | |
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The ANZAC Bridge or Anzac Bridge (both spellings are officially used) is a road bridge over Johnstons Bay , a harbor bay on the south bank of Port Jackson west of downtown Sydney , Australia . The cable-stayed bridge between Pyrmont and Glebe Island - now a peninsula - replaced the former Glebe Island Bridge and is part of the Western Distributor , an urban freeway that connects downtown with the inner western districts of Sydney and the north of the city.
history
Glebe Island Bridge
Before the ANZAC Bridge was built, there were two bridges over Johnstons Bay:
The first bridge was built as part of a project to relocate the slaughterhouse from downtown to Glebe Island. The first pillar of the original bridge was driven in in October 1860. In 1862 the 318.6 meter long and 8.5 meter wide wooden bridge was opened. It had a 12 meter long swiveling part so that ships could still enter the bay. Before that, a steam-powered ferry operated.
The second Glebe Island Bridge was an electrically operated swing bridge . It opened in 1903, a year after the Pyrmont Bridge opened across Darling Harbor . Percy Allen of the New South Wales Public Works Department , who had already designed the Pyrmont Bridge, also designed this bridge.
To allow ships to enter Blackwattle Bay , the swing bridge had to be closed to traffic on a regular basis. Increasing traffic jams on the important traffic axis finally led to the construction of today's ANZAC Bridge , which is high enough that ships can cross under it. The bridge from 1903 is still standing today (2011), but is no longer accessible for pedestrians or vehicles.
ANZAC Bridge
The new bridge was built by construction company Baulderstone and opened on December 3, 1995.
On Memorial Day 1998, she was christened with her current name in honor of the soldiers of the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps of the First World War . An Australian flag flies on the east pylon and a New Zealand flag on the west . On ANZAC Day 2000, a bronze statue of an Australian ANZAC soldier ("Digger") holding a Lee Enfield rifle was placed at the western end of the bridge. A statue of a New Zealand soldier was added across the street on August 27, 2008.
description
The ANZAC Bridge is the longest cable-stayed bridge in Australia. It is 32.2 meters wide and the main span is 345 meters. The reinforced concrete pylons are 120 meters high, the roadways are attached to them with two sets of stay cables. Initially, the stay cables suffered from vibrations. This deficiency was later remedied by adding thinner stabilizing ropes between the supporting ropes.
A combined foot and bike path runs along the north side of the bridge, making it a leisurely 40-minute walk around Blackwattle Bay.
In order to enable the passage of ships into Johnstons Bay, a correspondingly large and expensive construction was necessary, which has been repeatedly criticized. And soon after the bridge was completed, this bay also lost its importance for shipping.
Today security guards patrol the bridge regularly to ward off a terrorist attack, and the footpath is monitored with traffic cameras.
Trivia
The first line of the 1995 song Purple Sneakers by the rock band You Am I reads: "Had a scratch only you could itch / untereath the Glebe Point Bridge" (Eng .: I had a scratch that only you could scratch underneath Glebe Point Bridge ). The text from Tim Rogers probably refers to the Glebe Island Bridge from 1903.
photos
ANZAC Bridge at dusk from the southwest (Glebe Point)
Aerial view of Sydney Harbor from west (2008). The ANZAC Bridge is in the lower center right. The old Glebe Island Bridge is to the left of it.
The suspension ropes of the bridge suffered from vibrations, which were eliminated by pulling stabilization ropes (see picture) between the suspension ropes.
Statue of an Australian ANZAC soldier on the northwest side of the bridge
The second Glebe Island Bridge from the water. The lanes of the ANZAC Bridge are above it.
Web links
- Description and history of the ANZAC Bridge (with photos of the construction )
- Webcam at the footpath of the ANZAC Bridge
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c ANZAC Bridge . Structurae . Retrieved February 3, 2010.
- ↑ REMOVAL OF THE SLAUGHTER HOUSES FROM SYDNEY. . October 22, 1860. Retrieved November 10, 2010.
- ↑ a b COMMENCEMENT OF THE GLEBE ISLAND BRIDGE . October 11, 1860. Retrieved November 10, 2010.
- ↑ Lema Samandar: Kiwi joins his little mate on Anzac Bridge watch . Sydney Morning Herald. April 27, 2008. Retrieved February 3, 2010.
- ^ The Bridge Too High . Inner Sydney Voice. Inner City Regional Council for Social Development. Issue 112. page 17