Sydney Great Bridage

Hokitika Guardian, 28 September 1921, Page 3

Sydney Great Br idage

DEVELOPING A HUNG DELAYED .SCHEME. SYDNEY, Sept. 20.

As long ai*o as 1815 the Corornmoiil an .itileel id the day -uhmitied to Coventor Macquarie a sebeme for bridging Sydney Imibotir. and it has been mme or jess a burning- (|tti*stiiin over simo. But it is au enormous undertaking. the minimum period necessary lur i .instruction being set down by engineers at ten years. Consequently lei (Ii vernment so fur has been courageous enough to tin much more than talk about it. In the meantime. fo-ioird by ill.' world's most "underfill terry sort ice, the subtlrlis oil the northern side of the harbour, opposite to thrill'. have continued to expand at an extraordinary nib*, until to-day they extend for mile, wild have tens ol thou- , sands of inlmliitants.

Eitrtliermoro the fowiisiiuess ot delay lias been brought home strikingly by the fad that since 101 I the esttem * i ei.si of the bridge lias increased irom U2,7511. (Ki1l to L’li.Ol 10,0111). Tl e-e i * aitinerations, together with it bk rtn inj-C l ongest ion on the'ferries in the mortfiiie and evening imsiness rushes, and the popular outcry against the emit mu* aiiv increasing lares, have moved tilt* piesenl Government In tale' wliat appear to U' serious steps towards t c niatei ialisittiou of li e liridtfe. lenders aie In iiip: invited I'nrtiiwith, and the Chief Engineer for Railway (onslraetinti. Mi Bradtieid, is depart inn for Ameriea and London to mlvi-e p ■ speetive tenderers. The liridet* proposed, wliilst not bavin,, as lone a span as t.ie Forth Ittidee, near Kdinburp;h, would In* the j.iece of steel liridpe work in the world. It would he built to carry four fines of railway as well as prnvidtnn lor vehicular and pedestrian traffic, whilst the Eorih Bridge carries only two. It would be possible for the 11iiiis-eonliu-eutal train to proceed direct- hum Rockhampton, in Queensland,, to Perth, in Western Australia, and all such tradie would pass over the lifid«i«*, u bit'll wuiihl lie const rueted to earry with ease tin* heaviest weights pi any iiridge ill the world.