SYDNEY’S BIG BRIDGE

Evening Star, Issue 21090, 30 April 1932, Page 3

SYDNEY’S BIG BRIDGE

The first complaint against the Harbour Bridge, apart from objections to taxation and the toll, has been made. The Sydney correspondent of the ‘Argus says: the manifestation of joy by residents on the northern side of the harbour when the ribbon was cut at that end by tho of North Sydney quickly subsided. What is that awful din? ’ asked occupants oi houses within a mile or two of tho bridge. All soon learned the answer. It was the bridge. The bridge makes a noise, even up to midnight. They can never forget it, so the residents say, for when the roar ceases and they drop off to sleep, it is to experience horrible dreams. Trains and trams make the noise. Tho tracks do not absorb noise, but distribute it, all too generously. Residents of suburbs farther east than Neutral Bay and farther north than Woolstoncraft may not hear anything unless the wind* is blowing in their direction, and tho suburbs beyond range will, therefore, prosper at the expense of tho others. There are suggestions for reducing the row, but the experts have not yet expressed an opinion upon them.”