Histiorical Landmark of Auckland Habour Bridge

 AUCKLAND HARBOUR BRIDGE

Lino & Maria - 

The Auckland harbor bridge was built in 1954 and was opened on the 30th of May. The Tools and things they used to build the bridge was,

Clever cantilevering

Steel Girders 

Concrete 

Tonnes of steel

6800 liters of paint

cubic of concrete

The Harbor Bridge is 1017 m long but they used 5670 tonnes of steel, The staff workers worked 33 m below sea level preparing the concrete piers. 4 men died due to a protest that happened on the Auckland Harbour bridge. The 4 men died because they were on the side 1 of the bridge so they have died by accident  

Mariah -

 Who wanted to make the harbor bridge? Freeman-Fox and Partners included the Sydney Harbour Bridge in 1932 so the one who wanted to make the harbour Bridge was Freeman-Fox and partners and Auckland harbour bridge was officially made in 1932 and Since 1815, there were ideas to build the bridge in the Sydney Harbor. The background behind the harbour bridge in 1860’s an engineer named Fred Bell but the plan of making the bridge was too expensive with the gears and then in 1950’s the bridge was finally built and now it is a very popular historical Landmark to Auckland & New Zealand. 

 

 

Lily - 

What is Auckland harbour bridge? Auckland harbour bridge is located near the Northern way Motorway. The Bridge is operated by the NZ transport agency.  It is the second-longest road bridge in New Zealand and the longest in the North Island. Ever since the Auckland Harbour  Bridge has been built there are such things as traffic management happening for there was the bridge just in the motorway. In 2006, they decided to build lanes for cars with a limit of having only about 180,000 cars to drive in each lane. In March 2009 they decided to make a barrier machine since everything became more cars driving the harbour bridge. 

Maria - 

In May 1958 there was a 63-year-old man who came up with a plan to do a Bungy jump off the Harbour Bridge, and his name was A.J. ( Alan John Hackett ). The first jumps were made using a parachute harness, but Alan Hackett created an idea where the harness had to be tied around the ankle. They demonstrated it by actually jumping off the Harbour Bridge. Hackett traveled to Paris on behalf of New Zealand in 1986 and made the world's first public Bungy jump. He became famous after bungee jumping off the Eiffel tower, due to a brief jail sentence for an illegal feat.