SYDNEY HARBOR BRIDGE

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17027, 12 August 1929, Page 5

SYDNEY HARBOR BRIDGE

OPENING CELEBRATION AN EXHIBITION PROPOSED SYDNEY, August J. Although Sydney harbor bridge is not likely to bo completed before the end of 1931, city business men arc trying to awaken interest in the proposed Empire exhibition in Sydney to mark the opening of the giant structure. In a few weeks another panel of the arch that is to bestride the water will he completed. Thousands of people will lind the bridge a delightful promenade mi summer nights. Looking out over tlio harbor—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 walk 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 lie grimly popular. Those who now want, to make a rendezvous with death throw themselves in many eases over the notorious “Gap ’ at Sydney beads’, 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 harbor of about 190 ft.. with no rocks below, as is the case at the “Gap.” The bridge will he a mighty structure —far more colossal than it looks at present from the ground. Peering up at it, one gets an imperfect sense ot its dimensions. Each of the two main towers, for example, on the northern and southern foreshores of tho harbor, will he bigger than a- city block of buildings. The main roadway over the bridge for motor and other ordinary traffic will 1)0 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 tracks for the trains. The.ro will not ho any trams over the bridge.