Name this bridge

Mon 16 August 2004 9:15pm by Daniel
Filed under: Photos 

This is the bridge from Flinders Street Station’s Elizabeth Street subway to Southbank. Does it have a name?

Ron asked, and I looked at various maps and walked around it, but can’t find a name for it. Anybody?

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Or if it doesn’t have a name, would anybody like to suggest one?

(No actual naming rights to this bridge conferred or implied, except perhaps in your imagination.)

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15 comments on Name this bridge

  1. BC on Mon, 16th Aug 2004 10:30 pm

    2. I asked the Melbourne City Council this a fair while ago… And their response was: “It doesn’t have a name.” So there you go.

  2. Andy on Mon, 16th Aug 2004 10:33 pm

    3. That’s just silly – all bridges should have names.

  3. vaughan on Mon, 16th Aug 2004 10:46 pm

    4. It’s called ‘the footbridge’

  4. Jennifer on Mon, 16th Aug 2004 11:19 pm

    5. there’s a name somewhere. there has to be something on the architectural plans besides bridge. it might be something dumb like ‘bridge at flinders street’

  5. R. H. on Mon, 16th Aug 2004 11:34 pm

    6. Call it ‘The Bridge of Sighs’. That’s the name of a little bridge in Venice which prisoners crossed on their way to execution. Some folk crossing this bridge over the Yarra could have similar feelings after losing all their dough at the casino.

  6. Andrew on Tue, 17th Aug 2004 12:57 am

    7. I think it is called the ‘Walking Bridge’ but not sure where that came from.

  7. Ron on Tue, 17th Aug 2004 1:34 am

    8. Bloody great shot of it, Daniel!

    :-)

    -Ron

  8. Was on Tue, 17th Aug 2004 11:45 am

    9. Visit victoria
    at http://www1.visitvictoria.com.au/displayObject.cfm/ObjectID.000ADC72-1284-1A5D-BC6180C476A90000/vvt.vhtml

    You think parks victoria would have a name for it but they call it “Foot”

    http://www.parkweb.vic.gov.au/resources/05_0510.pdf

    “pedestrian footbridge across the Yarra River “

  9. R. H. on Tue, 17th Aug 2004 11:52 am

    10. Yes. Well he’s not bad with a camera, this bloke: good angles, good composition; seems he’s studied a bit of art. Looks where he’s going.

  10. Ron on Tue, 17th Aug 2004 3:12 pm

    11. Foot? Foot?!?! What kind of name is Foot?!

    I’m thinking this needs to be renamed the Daniel Bowen Memorial Bridge. But only because I’m not there…

    -Ron

  11. Was on Tue, 17th Aug 2004 4:23 pm

    12. Memorial ….??
    Im sorry did I miss something?

  12. Daniel on Wed, 18th Aug 2004 10:55 pm

    13. I’m not dead!

  13. Ron on Thu, 19th Aug 2004 11:28 am

    14. Who said that?

  14. Peter on Tue, 24th Aug 2004 8:29 pm

    15. It actually looks a lot like a new bridge across the Brisbane River, designed by students at QUT, the cost of which blew out, called… The Goodwill Bridge. A controversial project from start to finish, and no doubt some don’t like the name either. Perhaps Melbourne needs a “name the bridge competition” or something.

  15. peter on Fri, 15th Oct 2004 4:29 pm

    16. A few years ago I met an Irishman at The Racecourse hotel in Caulfield. Over a couple of pints of Guinness he told me he built that bridge. He even had a business card with a picture of the bridge upon it. Who knows if he was telling the truth?