There are more than 50,000 public bridges in Australia. (The Sea Cliff bridge is one Australia’s newer bridges, built in 2005).
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Australian bridges are generally safe, but we don’t have transparent information about how often they’re inspected or maintained.
The Ponte Morandi bridge, Genoa, after its collapse, which has claimed dozens of lives.
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Bridge engineering does not end when construction finishes and traffic starts to flow.
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We’d need some major innovation to bridge the Channel without disrupting shipping.