ANZAC Bridge
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Johnstons Bay
The ANZAC Bridge or Anzac Bridge (both spellings are officially used ) is a road bridge over the Johnstons Bay, a natural harbor on the southern shore of Port Jackson -west of the city of Sydney, Australia. The cable-stayed bridge between Pyrmont and Glebe Iceland - now a peninsula - replacing the earlier Glebe Iceland Bridge and is part of the Western Distributor, an urban motorway, which connects downtown with the inner western districts of Sydney and the north of the city.
History
Glebe Iceland Bridge
Before the construction of the ANZAC Bridge, there were two bridges over the Johnstons Bay:
The first bridge was built as part of a project for the installation of the slaughterhouse from downtown on Glebe Iceland. The first pillar of the original bridge was driven in October 1860. In 1862, a 318.6 -meter long and 8.5 meter wide wooden bridge was opened. She had a 12 -meter-long pivoting part, so could that still ships drive into the bay. Previously, a steam-powered ferry wrong.
The second Glebe Iceland Bridge was an electrically operated swing bridge. It was 1903, a year after the opening of the Pyrmont Bridge over Darling Harbour, opened. Percy Allen of the New South Wales Public Works Department, who had already designed the Pyrmont Bridge, also designed this bridge.
In order to allow ships the entrance to the Blackwattle Bay, the swing bridge had to be regularly closed to traffic. Increasing congestion on the major transport axis, prompted the construction of the current ANZAC Bridge, which is high enough that the ships can pass under it. The bridge from 1903 is today (2011) still, but is no longer accessible for pedestrians or vehicles.
ANZAC Bridge
The new bridge was built by the construction company Baulderstone and opened on 3 December 1995.
On Memorial Day 1998, she was named the First World War to the current name in honor of the soldiers of the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps. On the eastern pylon blowing an Australian, Western on a New Zealand flag. On ANZAC Day 2000, a bronze statue of an Australian ANZAC soldiers ( " Digger" ), which holds a Lee - Enfield rifle, situated at the western end of the bridge. A statue of a New Zealand soldier was added on 27 August 2008 on the other side of the street.
Description
The ANZAC Bridge is the longest cable-stayed bridge in Australia. It is 32.2 meters wide and the main span is 345 meters. The reinforced concrete pylons are 120 meters high, the roads are appended thereto with two sets of cable stays. Initially the stay cables suffering from vibration. Later it was this deficiency be remedied by adding thinner stabilization cables between the supporting cables.
On the north side of the bridge runs a combined foot and bicycle path that allows a leisurely 40 -minute walk to the Blackwattle Bay around.
In order to allow the passage of ships in the Johnstons Bay, was a correspondingly large and expensive construction required, which has been repeatedly criticized. And soon after completion of the bridge this bay also lost its importance for the waterway.
Today patrols to defend against a terrorist attack regular security personnel over the bridge, and the walk is monitored by traffic cameras.
Trivia
The first line of the song in 1995 presented the Purple Sneakers rock band You Am I is: "Had a scratch only you Could itch / unterneath the Glebe Point Bridge " (Eng.: I had a scratch only you could scratch below the Glebe Point Bridge ). Originally by Tim Rogers text presumably refers to the Glebe Iceland Bridge of 1903.
Pictures
Aerial view of Sydney Harbour from the west (2008). The ANZAC Bridge is located in the bottom center right. The old Glebe Iceland Bridge is left of it.
The carrying cables of the bridge suffered from vibrations that you (see picture) eliminated by the retraction of stabilizing cables between the supporting cables.
Statue of an Australian ANZAC soldiers on the northwest side of the bridge
The second Glebe Iceland Bridge from the water. The lanes of the ANZAC Bridge higher.