SYDNEY'S BRIDGE

Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 67, 19 March 1924, Page 9

SYDNEY'S BRIDGE

PREPARATIONS BEGIN

(PROM ODR OWN CORRE6PONDINT.)

SYDNEY, 13th March;

The preparatory work in connection with the construction of the mammoth bridge which is to stretch across Sydney Harbour is already in, progress. The Milson'a Point station, which will be remembered by New Zealand visitors to Sydney as the point on the North Shore at which ferries, trams, and trains link UP- «to disappear, to make room for the big engineering shops along the foreshore as a preliminary to the construction of the great bridge. Tho new station will be at Lavender Bay, a little further round. To this point the Milson s Point ferry and the connecting trains and trams will be deviated To save the army of people who will daily use tho new station a wearisome climb up a steep gradient on to the read level there will be electrically-driven escalators, which, at a speed of 90 feet a minute, will each whizz 8000 people up an hour, thus removing the objection of people when the Lavender Bay station was designed many years ago. But there will probably be some persons who will want to climb to the higher level instead of being carried up, and for these stationary stairways will be placed between the escalators. All this is not a dream. The whole thing will be in operation in a few months. The joy of the youngsters, the flappers, and the old people when they get on the escalators will be great. It will possess something of the joys of a razzle dazzle for a day or two.