Bridge Victoria Bridge - road and pedestrian bridge over the Brisbane River. The current bridge, opened in 1969, is the third one constant crossing of the river, was built on this site. The bridge is divided into lanes for motorists, cyclists and pedestrians.

Victoria Bridge connects South Beach Park and the Queensland Cultural Centre to the business center of Brisbane on the northern waterfront. The master plan of the City center of Brisbane appears a new crossing, immediately adjacent to the Victoria Bridge and is having the name "Adelaide Street Bridge", which will take over the part of pedestrians, cyclists, buses and perhaps monorail urban transport to make the Victoria Bridge exclusively for motor vehicles, as it was before.

Construction of the first bridge over the Brisbane River began August 22, 1864. That bridge, known as Brisbane, was made of wood and quickly began to collapse due to the invasion of marine larvae drevotochnitsy finally collapsed in April 1867. The City Council was unable to repair the bridge and its wreckage for two years fell into the river.

The new crossing, which opened in July 1874 the Governor of Queensland, was the iron, and the fare for her charge a fee .  The bridge was built on the money taken by the City Council's loan, which should have been repaid from fees .  However, lack of profits has led to the fact that the bridge was taken over by the colonial government, which established the draw span that ships with tall masts could climb up the river .  Then, on the bridge were built tram lines .  During the floods in 1893 the bridge was partially washed away by raging streams Brisbane River .  In 1897, another bridge was built, which operated until 1969, when it was destroyed .  At the same time for the transport of goods and people used ferries .  That bridge was built of steel and had two carriageways and two footpaths .  In 1943 he became apparent deflection of the bridge because of the increased traffic .  Tram routes had to limit and pedestrian paths and completely clean . 

The new bridge, opened April 14, 1969, was necessary because of the growing automobile traffic. Its construction cost of 3, 2 million Australian dollars.