VOGEL'S BRIDGES
•Forty to sixty- years is a long life for 'a wooden bridge, and many of the bridges in New Zealand, erected as part of Sir Julius Vogel's public works programme, have now attained this age. The Main Highways Board has endeavoured to arrange orderly replacement of the structures, but, as a news article yesterday showed, has been unable to keep to the plan. Inevitably this must lead to heavier charges for reconstruction in a few years' time. , In the meantime there is risk of serious public loss and inconvenience. Interruption of roadborne transport in these days must involvevheavy loss, and at any time such interruption may take place. When a rWd surface suffers through lack of maintenance there is delay but rarely stoppage of traffic. When a bridge is'weakened it may be destroyed by the extra stress of a flood. Then a link in the highway is snapped. Travellers can usually get through on a bad road, but they cannot cross a broken bridge. It is essential that this risk of gaps in the transport lines should be reduced by steady replacement work which leaves a fair margin on the safety side. '
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Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 62, 15 March 1933, Page 8
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194VOGEL'S BRIDGES Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 62, 15 March 1933, Page 8
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