The Ted Smout bridge as it was being built in Queensland.
Australia now has another ‘big thing’ to add to its list as Australia’s longest bridge opened this weekend in Queensland.
The Ted Smout bridge, named after a World War I veteran from Queensland, spans an incredible 2.7 kilometres to join Brisbane with Redcliffe and has three traffic lanes, a cycle lane, pedestrian path and even fishing spots!
The bridge has been built to last 100 years and apparently can cope with any severe weather the Queensland coastline can throw at it.
As more and more people are populating Queensland, the bridge was part of the infrastructure plan to cope with a population increase, joining communities together.
The bridge cost $315 million to build and used 120,000 tonnes of concrete and 10,000 tonnes of steel. Main Roads Minister Craig Wallace, a keen fisher, admitted that he was most excited about the fishing platforms that are right above the fishing channel. He hopes that people from the communities will make plenty of use of them.
The bridge has even been designed to help support some of Queensland’s famous residents – the pelicans. Pelicans can also do a spot of fishing on their inbuilt pelican perch.
We’ll have to add the bridge to our feature on Australia’s big things!
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