Sydney Harbour Bridge

It started as a way to connect two sides of Sydney Harbour but, over 90 years, has become an iconic part of visiting Australia.

For Deb Zimmer, the bridge is a way to sell Sydney and Australia to the world. “But it also connected north and south and thereby diminished the separation of the two parts of the city.” “The bridge defined Sydney and indeed Australia,” Ian Hoskins said. “The amount of traffic that it carries now - the modern trains that we have, the trucks that cross the bridge - by no means have we exceeded limits of the bridge capability.” “They’ve been amazing, giving us all these stories, their perspective from the top of the bridge and what all these moments mean to them.” As well as being a vital piece of infrastructure, the Sydney Harbour Bridge has become a popular destination for domestic and international tourists. In 1993, the Sydney Harbour Bridge began the first trial of electronic toll collection in Australia, using 1,000 tags and six toll lane ‘readers’. According to Dr Hoskins, the arch was the first part of the bridge to be built. “It was constructed from both sides so that the arch was joined in the middle,” he said. “John Bradfield was the key figure in pushing for the bridge that was finally built and the key person approving its design,” Hoskins said. “The arch bridge that was finally decided upon in 1924 was designed by Ralph Freeman who worked for Dorman Long, the winners of the Bridge tender.” He has written that the “first mention of a bridge across Sydney Harbour appeared in 1789, just a year after the First Fleet arrived”.

Sydney is celebrating the 90th anniversary of the unveiling of the Harbour Bridge, which has since hosted millions of cars, countless climbers, ...

So the bridge is a symbol of reconciliation in many respects," he said. So the bridge is a symbol of reconciliation in many respects," he said. "The Sydney Harbour Bridge not only became a symbol of Sydney, it became something people recognised as Australian very quickly," he said. I tried to get in the back part of the bus so you'd be higher up so you can see down the harbour," he said. "He was (bridge proponent John Bradfield's) chief supervising engineer for the fabrication and erection of the steelwork," Mr Litchfield told AAP. "We were brought up with the bridge. "A bridge symbolises literally spanning a gap and joining two sides, two sides of an argument, two sides of an issue.