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22-SEP-2014

Span

The West Gate Bridge is a steel box girder cable-stayed bridge in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. It spans the Yarra River, just north of its mouth into Port Phillip, and is a vital link between the inner city (CBD) and Melbourne's western suburbs; with the industrial suburbs in the west and with the city of Geelong, 80 kilometres (50 mi) to the south-west. It is one of the busiest road corridors in Australia.
Just before lunch on 15 October 1970, the West Gate Bridge suddenly groaned. An eerie pinging noise filled the air. A storm of rust flakes peeled off weathered steel. The girders started to turn blue. The bridge fell away beneath their feet. Minutes later, 35 workers were dead.

My photo shows just a section of the bridge.

Olympus E-PL1
1/200s f/9.0 at 42.0mm iso200 full exif

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LynnH29-Sep-2014 15:59
Wow, what a tragedy.
Stephanie25-Sep-2014 16:32
Sad narrative about the bridge!
John Lamb23-Sep-2014 20:23
A tragic reminder Sandra.
Mieke WA Minkjan23-Sep-2014 08:05
great angle Sandra to capture the complexity of this important bridge, a life stream between east and west V
borisalex23-Sep-2014 06:46
Many spans in your study!
Cindi Smith23-Sep-2014 02:52
What a sad story about this bridge.
Janice Dunn23-Sep-2014 02:38
Oh, how terrible.
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