Sydney Bridge London has been talking about a new bridge
over the Thames since 1923. It was in that year that New South Wales set Messrs. Dorman Long & Co. to build a bridge over Sydney Harbour, at a point where it is twice as vide as the Thames, and the bridge was opened on Saturday by the Premier, Mr. Lang. British' and Australian engineers with Australian workmen have co-operated in completing this new wonder of the world. The steel arch has a span of 550 yards, rises 440 feet above the water, and supports a road and railway bridge beneath which the largest vessels can pass. Moreover, A has been constructed in the air, so to say, without any interference with the shipping and ferry traffic below. The bridge with its approaches is over two miles in length. It was begun long before the economic crisis in Australia, and its completion, we trust, will herald better times for the State and the Commonwealth. There need be no undue pessimism about a country which can find the men and the money—some £8,000,000 —for this gigantic and useful enterprise.
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