SYDNEY HARBOUR BRIDGE.

Hawera Star, Volume XLIX, 13 August 1929, Page 9

SYDNEY HARBOUR BRIDGE.

the, OPENING CELEBRATION. AN EXHIBITION PROPOSED. Although Sydney Harbour Bridge is not -likely to be completed before the end of 1931 city business men are trying -to awaken interest in the proposed Empire exhibition in Sydney t.o mark tae -opening of the giant structure. ].n a few weeks another panel oi the arch that is to bestride the, water will be completed. Thousands of pe-o-ple will find the bridge a delightful promenade on summer nights. Looking out over the harbour—a sublime view itself under a .soft, velvety, star-spangled sky —and over the whole of the city and its environs, they will he afforded a wa-lk of about a mile in all across the bridge and over its long approaches. There is a strong belief that among those unfortunates- with suicidal intentions the bridge will be grimly popular, 'those who now want to make a rendezvous with death throw themselves in many eases over the notorious “Gap’’ at Sydney Hoads, but such people, are likely to make a- far cleaner job of it from the deck of the bridge, for they will have a- -sheer drop into the harbour of about 190 ft., with no rocks b-elo-w, as is the case -at the? “Gap.” The- bridge will he a mighty structure —-fair more colossal than it looks at present from the -ground. Peering up at it- one gets an imperfect- sense of its dimensions. Each of the two main towers, for example, on the northern and southern foreshores of the harbour, will be bigger than a city block oi buiiil.d-iiig-s. The main roadway over.the bridge lor motor and other ordinary traffic will be a foot wider than the city’s widest thoroughfare—Macquarie Street —and that is quite apart, of course, from the two 10ft. footways and wide track's for the trains. There will not. be any trams over the bridge.