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| Thread ID: 129662 | 2013-03-05 09:55:00 | Modified harbour Bridge | Whenu (9358) | PC World Chat |
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| 1331384 | 2013-03-05 23:11:00 | The original bridge design was for 10 lanes, 5 each way but in the usual way we do things in NZ.. Source? "Various reports in the years after World War II recommended either a four- or six-lane bridge. The Harbour Bridge Authority appointed in 1951 to raise public loans and call for tenders, opted for five lanes, two footpaths and a network of approach roads. The Government of the day took fright at the cost and grudgingly settled on an "austerity" bridge of four lanes and no footpaths." www.nzherald.co.nz |
PaulD (232) | ||
| 1331385 | 2013-03-06 00:50:00 | A tunnel through the Rimutakas is no legend ;) Insert ["road traffic"] tunnel in my post :p |
Strommer (42) | ||
| 1331386 | 2013-03-06 00:57:00 | Insert ["road traffic"] tunnel in my post :p If you have the right vehicle... (www.flickr.com) :D |
pcuser42 (130) | ||
| 1331387 | 2013-03-06 01:07:00 | I think you may be right Gobe. Did you realise that those solid looking concrete bridge abutments are actually hollow. They are there only for the effect of stability they give. The actual piles supporting the bridge are obvious when you are standing inside the structure. Pier 2 is hollow for 51' |
Whenu (9358) | ||
| 1331388 | 2013-03-06 01:48:00 | Source? "Various reports in the years after World War II recommended either a four- or six-lane bridge. The Harbour Bridge Authority appointed in 1951 to raise public loans and call for tenders, opted for five lanes, two footpaths and a network of approach roads. The Government of the day took fright at the cost and grudgingly settled on an "austerity" bridge of four lanes and no footpaths." www.nzherald.co.nz No source for it but i remember years ago seeing in the NZ Herald a photo of a 10 lane bridge in the US identical to the AK harbor bridge before they built the clipons and it was built some years before the Auckland one. The article said that this was what the Auckland bridge was supposed to be designed like.. |
paulw (1826) | ||
| 1331389 | 2013-03-06 02:10:00 | Considering how soon the actual design became inadequate, comparisons with wider bridges was probably just wishful thinking. | PaulD (232) | ||
| 1331390 | 2013-03-06 03:28:00 | www.bettertransport.org.nz Thought the above was going to be a "viaduct", not a "flyover". Lived in Dannevirke during WW11 and saw plenty US Marines in town during the war. Lurking. |
Lurking (218) | ||
| 1331391 | 2013-03-06 03:52:00 | The only road that I am aware of the yanks building during WW2 is the road that goes from Kawakawa, straight over the hill to Opua and Paihia. No niceties like cuttings and easy gradients as the road was built to enable rapid movement of tanks to the Far North in case of Japanese invasion. Anybody aware of any others? |
Richard (739) | ||
| 1331392 | 2013-03-06 03:59:00 | Incidentally, when the 4-lane bridge was built and opened in 1959, there was a total lack of foresight as to what would happen on the North Shore. Takapuna, Devonport, Northcote, Birkenhead had all been well-served by ferries, but the bridge created a huge development boom on that side of the harbour, which even the expanded bridge cannot now cope with. | Richard (739) | ||
| 1331393 | 2013-03-06 04:54:00 | The only road that I am aware of the yanks building during WW2 is the road that goes from Kawakawa, straight over the hill to Opua and Paihia. No niceties like cuttings and easy gradients as the road was built to enable rapid movement of tanks to the Far North in case of Japanese invasion. Anybody aware of any others? I think the GT. Sth. Road and others had the concrete strips in the centre of the roads put in |
Whenu (9358) | ||
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