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Government
infrastructure spending boosts may provide a welcome
opportunity to upgrade many of Australasia’s 57,000-plus
bridges, some of which are in sore need of
maintenance.
The opportunity for maintenance is
particularly significant for Australasia’s local roads
network, involving some 30,000 bridges in Australia, most
small to medium, many built before 1950, and some before the
turn of the century. There are also the 4200 for which the
NZ Department of Transport is responsible, including 185 of
which are single lane and the oldest of which, the
Waianakarua South River Bridge, in North Otago, which was
built in 1868.
“Public authorities who