On November 15, 1922, the NSW Parliament voted 24 against, 21 in favor of hearing Francis Ernest Stowe's three-armed Anzac Isle Bridge — sealing John Bradfield's design as Sydney's icon by a margin of just two votes. Had the vote gone the other way, suburban Wollstonecraft would have swapped futures with commercial North Sydney, and Balmain would have become the major gateway to the inner west. The bridge that defines Sydney wasn't the best design — it was the one that won by a whisker.
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