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Brisbane Story Bridge
The Story Bridge, designed
after Montreal’s Jacques Cartier Bridge, is
a cantilevered bridge that spans across the
Brisbane River. It makes up a portion of the
Bradfield Highway, and it links Fortitude
Valley and Kangaroo Point.
During the 1920s, Professor Roger Hawken of
the University of Queensland devised a plan
which involved the construction of a series
of bridges spanning the Brisbane River. The
main objective of the plan was to alleviate
the heavy pedestrian and vehicular traffic
on the Victoria Bridge and to divert it
from
the central business district of Brisbane.
The first bridge to be built under Hawken’s
program is the William Jolly Bridge.
However, due to the lack of funding, the
construction of a bridge downstream was
scrapped.
In 1932, before the Sydney Harbour Bridge
was opened, the Government of Queensland
commissioned John Bradfield to design a new
bridge for Brisbane
The Cross River Commission of the Brisbane
City Council recommended Kangaroo Point as
the
location of the new bridge. Construction
began on May 24, 1935. The bridge was called
Jubilee Bridge until it was completed in
honor of King George V. When it was opened
by Sir Leslie Orme Wilson, then governor of
Queensland, in July 6, 1940 it was renamed
for John Douglas Story, a heavily
influential senior public servant.
