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Scary bridges

posted by [personal profile] sbisson at 06:11pm on 10/01/2005
New Zealand is good at scary bridges. One Lane Bridges* abound, even on the busiest highways. However, this bridge really took the biscuit...



This wooden single lane bridge on the main road down the west coast of South Island was shared with the main west coast railway line...

*I never really worked out the rule that defined which side got the stop sign. My best guess was that it was the side with the least visibility of the oncoming traffic...
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posted by [identity profile] ajshepherd.livejournal.com at 11:14am on 10/01/2005
"No, you reverse."
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posted by [identity profile] pmcmurray.livejournal.com at 12:03pm on 10/01/2005
ooh, such fun...

game of chicken, anyone?
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posted by [identity profile] pickledginger.livejournal.com at 04:24pm on 10/01/2005
Eeeeek!
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posted by [identity profile] micheinnz.livejournal.com at 10:33pm on 10/01/2005
If you have the white arrow going in the same direction as you, you have the right of way. If you have the red arrow, give way until the bridge is clear.
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posted by [identity profile] micheinnz.livejournal.com at 10:34pm on 10/01/2005
Trains always have the right of way.
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posted by [identity profile] sbisson.livejournal.com at 04:03am on 11/01/2005
No, I got that! It was more wondering how Transit decided which side had the right of way when they put up the signs!
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posted by [identity profile] marypcb.livejournal.com at 05:02am on 11/01/2005
but *why* does this side get the white arrow and that the red? it isn't alternating bridges, it isn't uphill/downhill...
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posted by [identity profile] stillcarl.livejournal.com at 01:46am on 11/01/2005
My brother said he was asked recently by a Brit how NZ managed to fund roading and such throughout the country when the population was only four million. Well, there's his answer!
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posted by [identity profile] elinor.livejournal.com at 02:33am on 11/01/2005
ohmigodscary!!! How do you know if a train's coming?
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posted by [identity profile] marypcb.livejournal.com at 05:02am on 11/01/2005
normally ringing bells and lights and the fact that there's only one passenger train a way each day, but in practise (given that you never know when a goods train might be coming) - stop, look, listen, run for it ;-)
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