I would like to report a lost footbridge that once crossed Edgars creek accessed from Ronald St. In its wisdom the council upgraded the proven & stable bridge model with the 'litigation free' model, the problem being that the new model was so successful every time we had a serious downpour the bridge would disappear, we have now had 3 replacement bridges in the last couple of years (the original was 10+ years old). Trouble is now after the last serious downpour the bridge has not been sighted in over 6 months, it's a pain in the butt. If anybody has any knowledge of the bridges whereabouts or are as mystified as me as to the lack consultation in a replacement, they could maybe contact council and inquire as to how the investigations are going into resolving the missing bridge, Chris Hand Ronald St.
Hi Chris,
ReplyDeleteA search party has assembled on Facebook who are looking for the bridge. Search for "Edgar's Creek Bridge".
The council published the following update recently: http://www.moreland.vic.gov.au/about-us/news-and-publications/news/edgars-creek--ronald-street-footbridge-update/
From what I can decipher it looks like they have instituted a cross-collaborative multi-jurisdictional investigative investigation between Moreland Council and Melbourne Water that will determine whether the bridge should be officially declared missing and whether it should be rebuilt (without any finding of design fault for why the old bridge got washed away in the first place), and if it is to be rebuilt what kind of synergistic creek-crossing device the committee would propose be built, which due to optimal litigation minimisation strategies would need to be a monstrously high 100-year flood bridge that Counsel ultimately deems unaffordable, and announce that the conclusion of the investigation was that we should all just use the old Kodak site bridge upstream.
I hope that's not going to be the outcome but I fear it will be if we don't keep applying pressure in all the right places!
You should give Grant Thorn as call, I think he's the Moreland Council Team Leader of Strategic and Sustainable Transport on 9240 1111
- Chris from De Chene Pde
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