The Auckland Harbour Bridge is an eight-lane, box truss motorway bridge over the Waitemata Harbour, joining Saint Marys Bay in Auckland City with Northcote in North Shore City, New Zealand.
It has a total length of 1,020 m (3,348 feet), with a main span of 243.8 m, rising 43.27 m above high water allowing ships access to the deepwater port at the Chelsea Sugar Refinery up harbour (nowadays one of the few remaining wharves needing such access west of the bridge). It is part of the Auckland Northern Motorway running from the Central Motorway Junction in downtown Auckland to Orewa.
The bridge took four years to build and was opened on May 30, 1959 by Prime Minister Sidney Holland, with four lanes of traffic, two in each direction. Four men were killed during construction, and their names are recorded on a memorial plaque underneath the bridge at the Northcote end.
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