Captain Cook Bridge, Brisbane

Captain Cook Bridge
Captain Cook Bridge, Brisbane
Coordinates	27°28′50″S 153°01′45″E / 27.480562°S 153.029101°E / -27.480562; 153.029101
Carries	Pacific Motorway (Motor vehicles: eight lanes)
Crosses	Brisbane River
Locale	Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Official name	Captain Cook Bridge
Named for	Captain James Cook
Preceded by	Goodwill Bridge
Followed by	Story Bridge
Characteristics
Material	Concrete box girder
Total length	555 metres (1,821 ft)
Longest span	183 metres (600 ft)
Clearance below	12.7 metres (42 ft)
History
Designer	Albert Contessa (Chief Engineer)
Contracted lead designer	Co-Ordinator Generals Department
Constructed by	Transfield Constructions
Construction start	1968
Construction end	1972
Construction cost	$24 million[1]
Opened	1972; 52 years ago (1972)
Statistics
Daily traffic	~150,000 (as of 2007)
Location
References
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The Captain Cook Bridge is a road bridge that carries the Pacific Motorway across the Brisbane River in Brisbane, in the state of Queensland, Australia. It was built exclusively for vehicular traffic and was completed in late 1972. The bridge had its naming ceremony on 13 December 1972, with it opening in January/February 1973. Shortly before it was opened to vehicular traffic, a once only pedestrian walk event across the bridge was held on 21 January 1973, organised by the Rotary Club of Stones Corner.^[4] The bridge crosses at the South Brisbane Reach of the river, linking Gardens Point in the Brisbane central business district on the north side to Kangaroo Point and South Brisbane on the southside.