Wednesday, 23 May 2018

Bye bye blue bridge

The Johnson St bridge, or as it had become known, the Blue Bridge (guess what colour it is), was a long standing Victoria icon.  A few years ago it was assessed to have reached its expiry date and after a lot of wrangling, delays and cost overruns a new bridge was completed this spring.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnson_Street_Bridge  

Removing the old bridge was another engineering feat.  Over many weeks, the it was separated from the rest of the structure, lifted on to a barge by a huge crane, named the Dynamic Beast






 Slowly, slowly the bridge is lowered on to the barge.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HA6ENW6Iuw0  

and floated away.


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