Tharwa Bridge update

I did forget to add to this.
No matter what oppions there are about the wisdom of the amount of money being spent of this project it should be noted that the quallity of the work and its organisation has been great.

that bridge will be like my favourite hammer, it belonged to my grandfather – it’s had three new handles and two new heads, but it’s still his hammer! 🙂

oddball508 said :

The river has been flowing well since the February 2010 flooding. See http://www.flickr.com/photos/25223017@N00/4363793736/in/set-72157622922142043/

But it won’t be long before the sand banks return 🙂

Yar, I have lived in Tuggeranong since 1994 & have travelled the Bobyan Road many times & have never seen the river that high before. Noice.

The river has been flowing well since the February 2010 flooding. See http://www.flickr.com/photos/25223017@N00/4363793736/in/set-72157622922142043/

But it won’t be long before the sand banks return 🙂

But it’s a good test of your car’s in-dash CD player. If your CDs skip when you drive across the bridge, you need to get a new head unit, haha.

I’d like to see someone build a bridge that long for $9 million! 10 years ago maybe!!

I actually like the old bridge, me being into old things like that, but agree with the OP, it should have been preserved as it was as a pedestrian/cycle path over the tumultuous river below….I mean sand hills and gravel beds.

Could have just extended the banks inwards with all the dirt from the Kings Ave overpass and ended up with a three foot concrete drain because aint no way that river’s coming back again…..until the great flood of 2011!

If I were president (and you lot of whingers can thank your lucky stars I’m not) I would make all heritage projects and campaigns be accountable for their costs. So if a bunch of whiney heritage types wanted to save a bridge well past its demolition and replacement date, they would have to fund any costs over and above any plans that fair-minded responsible engineers had formulated. In the case of this so-called heritage bridge, which after all was just a bunch of beams and trusses constructed to serve a purpose for a known limited lifespan, the heritage whiners who insisted on repairing and restoring rather than replacing would have been given the $9 million and they would have been responsible for finding the rest.

It’d be an interesting exercise to see just how heritage-worthy the old bridge would have been if the whingeing set had to stump up $17 million themselves!