Comments by "John D" (@johnd8892) on "American Reacts to 4K Sydney, Australia Drive Through City Centre" video.

@mick1535 There was a late fifties addition of lanes in a way. My understanding is that lanes 7 and 8 were added for car use in the late fifties by removing trams from the bridge. These lanes formerly dedicated to trams then became available for use by road traffic.
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Melbourne only bigger using a seldom used urbanised area definition that Dan Andrews latched onto. Would Dan try to mislead us? Try searching for australian bureau of statistics capital city populations to see the more commonly used definition over the past fifty years.
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There are some bridges and roads in other countries where they have a movable physical barrier. The flexible barrier is moved at off peak times to give more lanes for the upcoming peak direction. Needs a special dedicated truck that moves a flexible, but still heavy, barrier like a zipper.
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G'day Ian. An historic vid on the construction of the Sydney Harbour Bridge for its opening in 1932 : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jy5cZ-IO0Eg Lots of longer more detailed vids on the engineering and opening are available.
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The zipper barrier in action : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dl0Q2bDnBUc
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@RushiAnton what source a newspaper or Dan Andrews. The ABS had always been the official source and you avoided them.
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Sydney traffic in 1975. Filmed at 9 frames per second instead of standard 24 fps as a film saving experiment , so everything looks sped up by nearly three times : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gUJlcUhh5Y Glad he did this experiment of what was ordinary then but rare now. A more interesting mix of cars to me, with lots of Holdens, Falcons and Valiants as well as the often UK sourced smaller cars and VWs. If you said then that in 2023 you would hardly see a Holden they would think you were mad. The pedestrian and traffic levels seem higher from an era before people increasingly gave up on Sydney CBD for better local activity choices.
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