OVERBRIDGE DROPS 18in
New Structure In Melbourne
<N.Z. Press Assn.—Copyright) MELBOURNE. July 10. With a resounding crack a 33-yard section of Melbourne's new mid-city overbridge dropped about 18in today. The big concrete structure, known as King’s Bridge, is Melbourne’s newest, and one of its busiest traffic outlets. Police stopped all city-bound traffic at the south Melbourne end of the overpass, as it was feared that continued use by heavy vehicles would bring the section crashing dbwn.
Police were told by scores of persons in nearby factories. who heard the crash, that heavy vehicles were using the bridge in an almost continuous flow this morning. Several persons told police that seconds before the crash was heard a 38-ton steam crane on a low loader pasAd over.
The roadway sagged deeper in some places than others, but to a genera) drop of about 18m.
The King’s Bridge project, including a high-level freeway. cost £4.100.000, and took more than three years to complete. It is Melbourne’s longest traffic bridge, and when it was opened it was estimated that it would be used by 45.000 vehicles every 24 as many vehicles as cross the Sydney Harbour Bridge each day
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Press, Volume CI, Issue 29871, 11 July 1962, Page 13
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