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It's a natural choke point

Engineering Catastrophes

It's a natural choke point, ideal location for developme of the city, and the sense of...

Engineering Catastrophes • S06E01 • 2018

It's a natural choke point, ideal location for developme of the city, and the sense of having acce to the ocean on both sides. [narrator] But as the population grew, this natural bottleneck threatened to choke commute and train traffic. To release the pressure, plans were laid for this, a mammoth 3000 foot crossin known as the Auckland Harbour Bridge It's a box truss structure,
which is simple structure

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It's a natural choke point,

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ideal location for developme of the city,

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and the sense of having acce to the ocean on both sides.

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[narrator] But as the population grew,

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this natural bottleneck threatened to choke commute

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and train traffic.

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To release the pressure, plans were laid for this,

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a mammoth 3000 foot crossin known as

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the Auckland Harbour Bridge

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It's a box truss structure, which is simple structure.

Duration

31 seconds

Views

12

Timestamp in Movie

00:34:58

Uploaded

Oct 29, 2025

Season

6

Episode

1

Genres

Production

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Movie Summary

With access to all phases of design and a large cast of experts, some of the great failures of engineering history are uncovered.