Brooklyn Bridge (Sydney)

The Brooklyn Bridge, a concrete girder bridge that spans the Hawkesbury River, is located northwest of the central business district of Sydney in New South Wales, Australia. The bridge carries part of the Pacific Motorway (M1) from to Point. The Brooklyn Bridge comprises a dual carriageway with three lanes in each direction of motorway grade-separated conditions.The adjacent Peats Ferry Bridge carries the Pacific Highway (B83) also across the Hawkesbury River in a single carriageway with one lane in each direction in state highway conditions. Both bridges are maintain by NSW Roads & Maritime Services.HistoryThe Peats Ferry, a ferry operated by George Peat from 1847 until the 1890s, linked two stretches of the Pacific Highway. The ferry service had been reinstated as a temporary measure in 1930 pending completion of the Peats Ferry Bridge, some forty years after the original Peats Ferry had ceased operation, made redundant by the completion of the Sydney-Newcastle railway in 1889. Prior to the construction of the Peats Ferry Bridge, the course of the Pacific Highway stretched from Kangaroo Point on the southern bank of the Hawkesbury River south to Hornsby and provided access to Sydney's northern suburbs and beyond. On the northern side of the Hawkesbury, from Mooney Mooney Point the Pacific Highway followed a mountainous route towards, Kariong, and then, on the route that is now the Pacific Highway/Central Coast Highway.