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A new $3.5 million, 60-metre bridge key to the Otiria and Moerewa flood scheme has opened to vehicle traffic. Construction of the Pokapu Rd bridge - on multiply-owned whānau land with the blessing of its shareholders - began in January after a dawn .
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The longest suspension bridge in Aotearoa will be built as part of the infamous "missing link" of the Mountains to Sea trail in the central North Island.