licola - building their own bridges

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Originally Posted by Numpty's Missus

A very OLD bridge is it JD? :D

Nothing new in govt roads depts taking forever to fix bridges.

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Never been a bridge, just a creek crossing - and the responsible authority is National Parks.

John

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Originally Posted by Dinty

G'day All, Larry, it's the same in NSW the Govt think NSW is Sydney and the outback is Rooty Hill and the rest of us can go and jump, we (here in Cessnock) have to put up with letters to the editor in our local rag about damage sustained to their precious cars on our poor roads, well my answer to that is stay in bl**y Sydney,NSW and we will keep our hard earned tax $$$$$'s to ourselves, and yes I know you are just joking about poor delipidated roads/bridges but these sorts of things occur far too often outside the city limits, and it's no joke.,believe me cheers Dennis:wasntme:

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Dennis, I think the locally made bridge is a master piece!

My "what's the problem" comment was directed at Vic Roads telling the locals not to use it.

Larry.:)

The bridge on the bypass road around Tamworth (Nemingha-Farrer High-Calala) has been closed to heavy traffic for years thus forcing all semi-trailers and B-doubles to take the road through Tamworth, longer and slower, and a nuisance to the citizenry.

G'day All, Larry I would agree that it is a masterpeice of bush engineering, and the pollies as I said wouldn't know if you were up them with a steam loco until you blew the whistle long and hard, cheers mate Dennis:wasntme:

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Originally Posted by EchiDna

ah but it's in Victoria and Mr Brumby and JH would have to wrestle for political point scoring (look at the murray/darling "agreement" fiasco)... no surprise there is no real action apart from community based stuff like the CES and CFA.
Anyway, it's a blardy solid lookin bridge if you ask me - I'd like to see vicroads do better!

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I think you mean the SES, the Commonwealth Employment Service is no longer and Steve Bracks is Premier now.....;)

Vic-Roads will most likely just pour the black top over the logs...

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Originally Posted by 84RR

Vic-Roads will most likely just pour the black top over the logs...

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Oh hell. I think I can hear Peter Garrett writing a protest song right now.
Something about poisonous bitumen all over the country side,
Like the leylands, oops sorry that bit just slipped out.:angel:

Shorty.

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Originally Posted by 84RR

I think you mean the SES, the Commonwealth Employment Service is no longer and Steve Bracks is Premier now.....;)

Vic-Roads will most likely just pour the black top over the logs...

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oh dear..... at least I've got some excuse! I've been away a while :)

10 years as of June 23rd this year *sigh*

Was just wondering how many bridges are in existence, and in use, that were constructed by our great-grand-daddies or even convicts. Pretty damned sure they never had an army of degree toting idiots pondering on the problem for years before construction commenced.

If you want to see bridges go to PNG, there are a couple in Eastern Highlands that are bobby dazzlers, never been sea-sick crossing a bridge before.

I say good on them, typical government will procastinate for years before anything happens, they need the bridge now! They built one! State will probably put a toll on it now, to raise the money to replace it.

Good stuff. I haven't been to Licola for years now, since 2000 or so.

It's pretty sh..ty for Vic roads to say that but worse that they didn't get in there quicker to do something to help. But I guess they've gotta cover themselves in this day and age of legal rot- not that it should slow there response to helping in these situations.