Horseshoe Bend Suspension Bridge — Rigney, New Zealand
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Dunbar Loop
S 45° 43.333 E 169° 28.281
59G E 381042 N 4935679
Built in 1913 and fully restored in 2005, the pedestrian suspension bridge connected the community of Rigney to Raes Junction on the main road
Waymark Code: WM7RGB
Location: South Island, New Zealand
Date Posted: 11/27/2009
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By the time this bridge was completed in 1913 there had been a chair suspended on a wire over the Clutha River at about this point since 1897. However, it was deemed unsafe that when the local officials came out to convince residents it was safe that "the councillors and the county engineer inspected the wire as a result of the complaints, none of them had the courage to use it!"
A full history of this crossing can be read at the following waymark --
WM7QA2
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