SYDNEY'S BIG BRIDGE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21162, 20 April 1932, Page 6

SYDNEY'S BIG BRIDGE.

COMPLAINT OF NOISE. " CAUSE OF BAD DREAMS." Thi? first, complaint against the Harbour [Bridge, apart from objections to taxation and the toll, lias been made. The Sydney correspondent of the Argus says: —"The manifestations of joy by residents on the nothern side of the harbour when the ribbon was cut at that end by the Mayor of North Sydney quickly subsided. 'What is that awful din ?' asked occupants of houses within a mile or two of the bridge. All soon learned the answer. Jt 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. The 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 the suburbs beyond range will,, therefore, prosper at the expense of the others. There are suggestions for reducing the row, but the experts have not yet expressed an opinion upon them."