Anzac Bridge

It’s a major gate of the city. I get the sense of expectation every time I cross it coming into the city. I really don’t know much about this bridge other than it’s name and that soldier statues on it in remembrance of those who sacrificed for our country.
Driving across the traffic can be slow moving and thick but generally it keeps flowing at a decent pace. I have walked across which offered views and photo opportunities. but nothing spectacular.
The structure itself i do find impressive, with sunset or sunrise my favourite times with the colours that make the steel silhouettes stand out beautifully.

The ANZAC Bridge that takes Victoria Road across Johnston’s Bay is one of Sydney’s most distinctive landmarks and a cool futuristic-​looking bridge as well. It is the longest cable-​stayed span bridge in Australia and one of the longest of this kind in the world. Opened in December 1995, at a cost of $ 170 million, it has a main span of 345m (1,132 ft) long, a total length of over 800m (2624 ft) and a width of 32.2m (106 ft).
At each end of the bridge is a reinforced concrete tower 120m (390 ft) high and the traffic deck is supported 128 main stay cables. Excessive vibration in the stay cables was later resolved by the adding thinner stabilising cables. The cables and towers on this bridge reminds me of Dubrovnik Bridge in Croatia, but I like the ANZAC better.
This new bridge replaced the old Glebe Island Bridge which is still standing nearby. The ANZAC provides the main east-​west access from Sydney city to the M4 tollway. It helped facilitate traffic west to the Homebush Bay Olympic 2000 site. It was first named the new Glebe Island Bridge, though was unofficially called the Madonna’s Bra bridge by the astute citizens of Sydney because the design looks like one of those pointy bras Madonna would wear on stage back then.
There is a pedestrian & bike path on the north side of the bridge, which allows a cool 30 minute walk from Glebe Point Road, down Bridge Road, over the ANZAC and round Blackwattle Bay back to Glebe Point Road.
On the 80^th anniversary of Armistice Day, the 11^th November 1998, the NSW Premier Bob Carr proclaimed the new name as the ANZAC Bridge as a memorial to the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps who fought in World War I. There is an Aussie flag on the eastern tower and a Kiwi flag on the western tower. The ANZAC Bridge of course has a commemorative Digger statue. The Americans can go look that one up.
ANZAC Bridge is one of the seven bridges in the annual Seven Bridges Walk, a community fitness event to raise money for charity. It has a loop circuit that crosses seven of Sydney’s harbour bridges in a clockwise direction, which are: Sydney Harbour Bridge to Pyrmont Bridge to ANZAC Bridge to Iron Cove Bridge to Gladesville Bridge to Tarban Bridge to Fig Tree Bridge. You can start at any one of seven «villages» along the route and the starting point nearest to ANZAC Bridge is Pyrmont village in Pyrmont Bay Park.
If you are the driver, you have little luxury of looking at the cool bridge design and the water views or else you will be on the nightly news as the cause of a pileup traffic jam as the maniac Sydney drivers race the hell out of the Sydney CBD area, the proud rat race of the South Pacific.

I mean, really, it’s a bridge but some of the good points are:
— It’s toll free (yippee!)
— It has pretty water views
— It has a super handy bike/​walking path
— It has 4 or 5 or 6 (I can’t remember) lanes which means something epic has to occur for traffic to stop on this baby.
A couple of things to watch out for:
— The sun in your eyes as you’re heading back to the city in the evening
— Speed cameras at the entrance of the bridge as you’re heading left. There’s a teeny tiny hill as you approach and you unexpectedly gain about 5km/​h going down it.
Other than that, drive safely, Unilocalers :)