Riding beneath the Gateway Bridge

Early Morning Constitutional

This is looking east from the Gateway Bridge. The horizon is a thick haze due to all the smoke from industrial chimneys.

Heavy Traffic on the Gateway Bridge

Brisbane folks love a bridge and yesterday 170,000 people walked across this brand new one.

This is what the Second Gateway Bridge looked like from the south side yesterday. The event was a public walk across what will soon be a very busy car bridge over the Brisbane River. It's been built right next to and almost mirroring the First Gateway bridge (which is the one with the cars on it in the photo). The idea is that it will ease traffic congestion on the original bridge by having traffic on one bridge going in one direction and traffic on the other bridge going in the opposite direction.

length: 1.6km
height at highest point: 78m
new name for both bridges : Sir Leo Hielscher Bridges (like that's going to stick!)