General elevation drawing of what the Brisbane River Bridge would look like once built

Public meetings calling for a bridge between northern Brisbane and Kangaroo Point began as early as November 1888. By the 1920s, Brisbane had grown vast but the Victoria Bridge remained the sole inner-city river crossing. Suburbanites claimed that this bridge was ‘congested and unable to carry the traffic’ and that more direct access to the districts of Woolloongabba and Coorparoo was necessary.