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BRIDGE 
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Award-winning,
off-shore and parallel-to-coast Sea Cliff Bridge forms
part of the Grand Pacific
Drive and is located
on scenic Lawrence Hargrave Drive, 60 kms
south from central Sydney (or 23 kms north of Wollongong). It
was opened
on December 11,
2005, at a total cost of A$52 million. The Bridge provides road,
pedestrian
and
cycleway access it's entire length (665 metres) and spectacular
views. Like
the
Bridge, Grand
Pacific Drive never loses sight of the sea. It hugs the coast between
the high battlements of the Illawarra Escarpment, looming like
the
great wall of a lost world, and the vastness of the Tasman
Sea, an
ocean view so wide you can see the curve of the Earth. Looking
south,
the coast is scalloped with bays, all the way
to Wollongong
and beyond.
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| Why was it constructed?
In August 2003, a large embankment slip indefinitely closed Lawrence
Hargrave Drive between Coalcliff and Clifton, a stretch
of road area notorious for rock falls and closures. But community  protest
at this closure was fierce, and a permanent fix was demanded
from
the NSW Government. Over two years later, Sea Cliff Bridge provided
that fix, and the road reopened, finally Bridging the Cliff
and the Sea
and Community.
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MEDIA
Many
articles have been, and continue to
be, written about Sea Cliff
Bridge and
the surrounding area by the Media:
- "Doing that Thirroul thing" (Travelmag - UK)
- "Reinvented Wollongong enjoys hotel boom" (Travel BlackBoard)
- "Discover the Nearer South Coast Beaches" (Larry's Australia / NZ Travel Blog)
- "Get the motor running" (SMH - Travel)
- "Coast with the most" (The Age)
- "Illawarra Tourism Going Gangbusters" (Illawarra Mercury)
- "Where in the World is Windang?" (Philippine Daily Inquirer)
- "Reinvented Wollongong Enjoys Tourism Wave" (e-Travel Blackboard)
- "How do you spell Wollongong?" (Jaunted)
- "Signs to lure overseas visitors" (South Coast Register)
- "Celebrity adventurer Charley Boorman hits the Gong" (Illawarra Mercury)
- "Charley Boorman cruises Illawarra's 'beautiful' coastline" (Illawarra Mercury)
- "Whales make a spectacle" (Illawarra Mercury)
- "Build it and they'll come" (Adelaide Now)
- "Coasts with the Most" (Sun2Surf - Malaysia)
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