ANZAC Bridge, Cable-stayed road bridge in Rozelle, Australia.
The Anzac Bridge is an eight-lane cable-stayed road bridge over Johnstons Bay between Pyrmont and Glebe Island, on Sydney's western fringe. Its two reinforced concrete pylons rise 120 m and carry the deck on two planes of stay cables; the main span is 345 m and the deck is 32.2 m wide. Thin stabilising cables run between the stay cables.
The crossing opened on December 3, 1995, replacing an old swing bridge from 1903 that served the harbor for nearly a century. On Remembrance Day 1998, it received its current name honoring soldiers from the First World War.
The name, adopted on Remembrance Day 1998, honours the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps of World War I. An Australian flag flies atop the eastern pylon and a New Zealand flag atop the western one. At the western end stand bronze statues of an Australian "digger" resting on arms reverse, placed on Anzac Day 2000, and a New Zealand soldier unveiled by Helen Clark on 27 April 2008.
A shared pedestrian and cycle path runs on the northern side of the bridge only, not both sides. It links Glebe Point Road via Bridge Road across the span and around Blackwattle Bay. The speed limit is 60 km/h, lowered from 70 km/h in January 2005.
The stay cables vibrated so much after opening that thin stabilising cables were later strung between them to stop the movement. The bridge reached its stated capacity of 180,000 cars a day in 2002, only seven years after opening.
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