SUTTON BRIDGE DECISION
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SUTTON BRIDGE DECISION
LAST YEAR IN GENERAL FLY FISHING > FLOODED RIVERS - JULY '17 (lots of photos) I WROTE OF THE DEMISE OF THIS BRIDGE .
IN YESTERDAYS ODT THIS ARTICLE APPEARED ......
https://www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin/brid ... d-collapse
THEN IN TODAYS ODT THIS WAS REPORTED .......
https://www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin/dcc/ ... ion-sutton
AT LEAST A NEW BRIDGE IS GOING AHEAD BUT ALAS NOT THE BEAUTIFUL OLD ONE THAT WAS . I CAN UNDERSTAND BOTH SIDES OF THIS DEBATE.
IF YOU ARE ONE OF THE LUCKY ANGLERS AROUND THE WORLD THAT HAS A PHOTO OF YOURSELF AND THE OLD BRIDGE THEN YOU HAVE
A GEM
IN YESTERDAYS ODT THIS ARTICLE APPEARED ......
https://www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin/brid ... d-collapse
THEN IN TODAYS ODT THIS WAS REPORTED .......
https://www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin/dcc/ ... ion-sutton
AT LEAST A NEW BRIDGE IS GOING AHEAD BUT ALAS NOT THE BEAUTIFUL OLD ONE THAT WAS . I CAN UNDERSTAND BOTH SIDES OF THIS DEBATE.
IF YOU ARE ONE OF THE LUCKY ANGLERS AROUND THE WORLD THAT HAS A PHOTO OF YOURSELF AND THE OLD BRIDGE THEN YOU HAVE
A GEM
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Re: SUTTON BRIDGE DECISION
BRIDGE PLANS PROGRESSING .....
https://www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin/thre ... gs-over-2m
https://www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin/thre ... gs-over-2m
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Re: SUTTON BRIDGE DECISION
Maybe Option 2? Gives a sense of remembrance for the old but allows for modern over-width farm equipment to use the new bridge.
Spent a lot of my school holidays fishing around that area as a kid, back when kids were allowed to do such things. Lucky to have a few piccy's of the old bridge too. Alas - no Taieri browns were ever caught.
Spent a lot of my school holidays fishing around that area as a kid, back when kids were allowed to do such things. Lucky to have a few piccy's of the old bridge too. Alas - no Taieri browns were ever caught.
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Re: SUTTON BRIDGE DECISION
LIKE YOU ANDY - I LIKE OPTION 2 - HAS REAL CHARACTER .
I ALSO FISHED THEREABOUTS WITH MY DAD IN THE EARLY '60s . WE WERE BOTH ON THREADLINE THEN AND GOT OUR SHARE OF 2 - 2½lbers BUT NOTHING HUGE . IT WAS A LONG TRIP FROM O PENINSULA WHERE WE LIVED . HAPPY DAYS - FOND MEMORIES .
Al.
I ALSO FISHED THEREABOUTS WITH MY DAD IN THE EARLY '60s . WE WERE BOTH ON THREADLINE THEN AND GOT OUR SHARE OF 2 - 2½lbers BUT NOTHING HUGE . IT WAS A LONG TRIP FROM O PENINSULA WHERE WE LIVED . HAPPY DAYS - FOND MEMORIES .
Al.
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Re: SUTTON BRIDGE DECISION
OPTION 4
Building a new modern TWO LANE bridge and invest in the future. A nostalgic bridge is gone. Create a new one our great great grand children will admire.
George
Building a new modern TWO LANE bridge and invest in the future. A nostalgic bridge is gone. Create a new one our great great grand children will admire.
George
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Re: SUTTON BRIDGE DECISION
I CAN SEE WHERE YOUR COMING FROM GEORGE BUT THAT WOULD TAKE NATIONAL FUNDING AND THEREFORE WOULDN'T GO AHEAD FOR YEARS . ANYWAY - GREAT TO SEE YOU BACK ON THE FORUM !
Al
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Re: SUTTON BRIDGE DECISION
The rebuild is already taking two first of government money. Local/regional share is only one third. But I agree, it is a non vote catcher, will not provoke a strike or a visit from the PM, so not votes, so no more money. But the mayors and Members will turn up for opening. The only true bidders in this issue are the local community board members, they DO know what the region needs.
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Re: SUTTON BRIDGE DECISION
WELL THEY FINALLY GOT THERE - REBUILT A BRIDGE (note - not "the" bridge).
IT DOESN'T HAVE A SMIDGEON OF THE CHARACTER OF THE OLD ONE , BUT IS MUCH MORE PRACTICAL AND IF IT LASTS ½ AS LONG AS THE OLD ONE THEN IT WILL BE A SUCCESS ....
YOU'LL SEE IT NEXT TIME YOUR HUNTING THOSE MIDDLEMARCH FISH !
Al.
https://www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin/4m-r ... lly-opened
IT DOESN'T HAVE A SMIDGEON OF THE CHARACTER OF THE OLD ONE , BUT IS MUCH MORE PRACTICAL AND IF IT LASTS ½ AS LONG AS THE OLD ONE THEN IT WILL BE A SUCCESS ....
YOU'LL SEE IT NEXT TIME YOUR HUNTING THOSE MIDDLEMARCH FISH !
Al.
https://www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin/4m-r ... lly-opened
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