Traffic Management on Sydney Harbour Bridge

Even though traffic on the famous Sydney Habour Bridge is always stuffed up during peak hours, I must say the traffic management is pretty good, considering the huge volumes of vehicles using the bridge every day.

I drive past the bridge everyday, often wondering why is there a traffic jam, cursing the driver in front of you for poor driving. For people who hasn't got a clue, majority of the traffic congestions are due to merging lanes and drivers not following the simple "merging" rule which is left right left right, one at each time. But humans being humans, everyone of us wants to go first in the queue, causing delays.

Sydney Harbour Bridge is the widest bridge in the world, consisting of 7 vehicles lanes, 1 bus only lane, 2 tracklines, 1 bicycle path and 1 footpath. Maintaining and managing the traffic on the bridge is not a easy job and I've been to the traffic management control centre to witness the process. Credit to the drivers (except for a few law-breakers), they keep to the lane allocated during peak hours, not crossing over to empty lanes as signalised on the bridge to speed up the process of ensuring traffic flows smoothly on the bridge.

Sydney Harbour Bridge will always remain an icon, together with the Sydney Opera House. The Sydney Habour Tunnel is another great project, taking a huge proportion of traffic from the Bridge, decreasing the delays and congestion for northbound and southbound vehicles.

Except for the traffic jams, I still enjoy driving over the Harbour Bridge everyday.

It is indeed a great civil engineering 'creation'.