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The Story Bridge is a heritage-listed steel cantilever bridge spanning the Brisbane River that carries vehicular, bicycle and pedestrian traffic between the northern and the southern suburbs of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
The first bridge built across the Brisbane River was the original timber Victoria Bridge, opened in 1865 between Brisbane and South Brisbane. The current concrete Victoria Bridge is the 4th to be built on the site, the original bridge collapsed after marine borers weakened its timber piles, and the second was destroyed in the 1893 flood .
Several spans of the Riverwalk are built out over the Brisbane River. Brisbane also has over 27 km (17 mi) of bicycle pathways, mostly surrounding the Brisbane River and city centre. Other popular recreation activities include the Story Bridge adventure climb and rock climbing at the Kangaroo Point Cliffs.
Free telephones linked to suicide prevention hotline installed at the Story Bridge footpath in Brisbane Suicide prevention barrier at the Story Bridge in Brisbane. The Sydney Harbour Bridge, the Mooney Mooney Bridge on the Central Coast (New South Wales), and the Westgate Bridge in Melbourne, Australia and the Story Bridge in Brisbane are considered suicide bridges.
This is a list of major bridges in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia: . Airport Flyover, Brisbane; Albert Bridge, Brisbane; Breakfast Creek Green Bridge; Captain Cook Bridge, Brisbane
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Story Bridge: Brisbane Queensland Australia: Brisbane's Story Bridge is notorious for its suicides, having been compared to the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco. [79] Free telephones have been installed on the bridge, and the bridge also has a three-metre-high safety barrier. [80] Sydney Harbour Bridge: Sydney New South Wales Australia
After the Story Bridge was opened in 1940, most large overseas and interstate vessels did not use the wharves at the Town Reach. Hamilton became the heart of Brisbane's port, and the part of the river from the South Brisbane Reach, round the Town Reach to Petrie Bight lost the ascendancy it had around the turn of the century.