Private bridge near hospital
A permanent private bridge, with strip lighting in the handrails, will probably replace the temporary bridge over the Avon River, connecting the Christchurch Hospital with Cambridge Terrace.
Plans of the bridge, which has a 24ft wide carriage-way and elevated footpaths, five feet wide, were presented to the works committee of the North Canterbury Hospital Board yesterday. The committee recommended that the board accept the plans, subject to approval by the Christchurch Citv Council. Mr T. M. Stanton, an engineer with Manson. Seaward, Stanton, and Meikle, the architects for the bridge, said that the lighting in the handrails would be in armoured
glass, and wouid light up the carriage-way sufficiently. The ligTit would come on at the same time as the hospital lights. Fears were expressed by several board members that vandals would break the lights, but Mr Stanton said that the armoured glass would be strong. This type of lighting had not been used by his firm before. The base of the bridge would be pre-cast concrete piles, which would be placed beside the temporary bridge.
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Press, Volume CXVI, Issue 34099, 11 March 1976, Page 2
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