[bikeqld] Jindalee bicycle bridge under construction

[mich rolling]

Yeeah! Slowly and with little fanfare (BQ you slaggards start updating your news pages and publishing this amazing bike count data talked about in your newsletter - 1000 bikes a morning on the Schonell? Publish the tables!!!) Brisbane's cycle networks emerge. 

http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/queensland/cycle-bridge-swings-into-place-20100129-n3f6.html

"A new link in Brisbane's cycling infrastructure fell into place
 yesterday, with the installation of a new bridge at Jindalee.

The bridge, Australia's largest single-span aluminium bridge, was lifted
 into place over riverside bushland this morning.

About 30 locals gathered to watch as a crane gently lifted, turned, and
 slowly lowered into place the 39-tonne, 54-metre long bridge......

Once opened, it would give cyclists a direct link from the Rocks Riverside
 Park at Sinnamon Park, along Kooringal Drive to Mt Ommaney Drive, which
 ran around the river to Westlake"


Yes Peter, "That would be Isambard Kingdom Brunel's work, rather than
 either of the famous Stephenson's" My mistake. That bridge is glorious in
 its' place and for its' era. I would like the Alice St bridge be 
something out of a Delaney sci-fi novel. Something gloriously inorganic
 and ethereally artificial launching homeward travellers towards the
 cliffs!


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