Fed: Sydney harbour bridge - the nuts and bolts

AAP General News (Australia)
02-16-2007
Fed: Sydney harbour bridge - the nuts and bolts

THE NUTS AND BOLTS OF THE SYDNEY HARBOUR BRIDGE:



Opened: March 19, 1932

Cost: 10,057,170 pounds 7s 9d (paid off in 1988)

Length: 1,149 metres

Width: 49 metres (carrying eight lanes for cars, two rail tracks, pedestrian and bicycle paths)

Height: 134 metres (plus up to 180mm on hot days as steel expands)

Clearance between water and bridge: 49 metres

Weight: 52,000 tons (including 39,000 tons for the steel arch alone)

Amount of concrete: 95,000 cubic metres

Amount of granite: 17,000 cubic metres

Amount of paint for one coat: 270,000 litres

Most famous painter: Paul Hogan

Number of rivets: six million

Builder: Dorman and Long, of Middlesbrough, England

Construction time: eight years

Number of workers: 1,400

Deaths: 16

Tolls: originally sixpence each way, now $3 southbound only

Cars per day: 11,000 in 1932, now 160,000

Film and TV credits: Mad Max, Mission Impossible 2, Independence Day, Finding Nemo,
Inspector Morse, JAG, McCloud, Supernova, Lost, Water Rats

Cost of bridge climb: from $100 per child and $169 adult



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