The Sydney Harbour Bridge

_The Sydney Harbour Bridge_ At one stage of Australia`s history Sydney was two cities,on the south shore lived 600,000 people and on the north shore lived another 300,000 people.People would either travel to and fro by ferry or go via the Gladstone Bridge which would take several hours.The problem of linking the sides had seemed too expensive to resolve until 1922. In 1922 the New South Wales parliament got serious and passed the Sydney Harbour …

…salute and a fly-by by the Australian Air Force. In its first year the Sydney Harbour Bridge carried 11,000 vehicles across the harbour.The final cost of the bridge was 10,057,170 pound 7 shillings and 9 pence.In 1988 New South Wales finished paying back the loan lent to build the brige. FACTS LENGHT OF ARCH : 503 METERS TOTAL LENGHT OF BRIDGE : 1149 METERS HIGHEST POINT : 134 METERS ABOVE SEA LEVEL WEIGHT OF STEEL IN THE ARCH : 37,000 TONNE TIME TO BUILD : 7 YEARS 356 DAYS ]