HUGE BRIDGES PLANNED

Press, Volume XC, Issue 27395, 7 July 1954, Page 12

HUGE BRIDGES PLANNED

Joining Italy And Sicily (Rec. 10 p,m.) ROME, July 6. In Rome. Dr. David Steinman, the man who designed the Sydney harbour bridge, tonight began talks with Italian officials on his project fdr a bridge to span the two-mile gap between the Italian mainland and Sicily.

Dr. Steinman, -who is 68, said the bridge would cost £53,000,000. A group of New York bankers was interested in financing it. The bridge would take 25,000 workmen about six to eight years to build. It would consist of one main and two smaller spans. The centre span would be about 5000 ft long and the bridge’s total length about 10,824 ft.

First Span Over Yangtse (Bee. 10 p.m.) LONDON, July 6. A bridge more than twice as long as the Sydney harbour bridge would be built across the Yangtse river in China within the next five years, the Communist New China News Agency said today. Mr Mao Yi-sheng, , president of China’s Society of Civil Engineers wrote in the English language magazine “China Reconstructs,” that the bridge, with a span of 3762 ft. would carry both road and rail traffic. Its height from pier foundation to roadway would equal the height of a 20storey building. The bridge, the first to cross the Yangtse along its 3100-mile course, {would be of the continuous truss type.