Prominent vehicle bridge carrying the South East Freeway into Brisbane's CBD. Concrete box girder construction and reputedly Queensland's busiest road bridge, bringing traffic from the southern suburbs and the Gold Coast into the heart of the city, and vice versa.
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Captain Cook Bridge
Written by cityadmin2
February 25, 2010
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| address | South East Freeway, Brisbane River, Gardens Point to Woolloongabba |
| year | 1972 |
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Captain Cook Bridge has a simple, elegant design. It stretches from the tip of the CBD peninsula across to Woolloongabba to the south, and in some ways is as symbolic a link as physical. Building this bridge opened up the southern suburbs of Brisbane to easy access from the city, a fact that was soon capitalised on as the city grew. Captain Cook Bridge is a great name too, and the view of the Brisbane River and CBD when arriving back from the Gold Coast beaches on a weekend afternoon is quite special.
But. It's hard to get past the fact that the Captain Cook Bridge delivers more than one million cars a week into or past the front door of the city centre. At the time it was built it no doubt appeared a necessary, bold or even futuristic investment in the city's infrastructure, but the knock on effects of the (uncompleted) freeway system of the 1970s are hard to avoid. Not least amongst these is the way the bridge and Riverside Expressway at its northern end cut off the activity and people of the CBD from its best natural asset, the Brisbane River.
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