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Article from the New Zealand Herald
27 August 2010: As Auckland merges to create a supercity, the Herald looks back at how Auckland has changed over the years.

Brief history of Auckland Harbour Bridge.

For a few years in the 1950s every second Aucklander was an engineer. Words like caissons, piers and spans were in their daily conversation.

They were watching a ribbon of steel being strung across the harbour, the realisation of a century's dream, a bridge that changed the city's shape and character and became an enduring icon.

There had been talk of a harbour bridge since at least 1860 when a structure on pontoons was proposed for the sake of North Shore farmers.

- A bridge too small
- Why not trains?
- Motor city