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Originally Posted by Ire Narissis
The 1954 image really sheds some light on why the old Gunningsville Bridge was located at the position and orientation it was; the causeway was built long before I was born so I'd always seen the truss bridge as crossing a lot of open marshland and not at the narrowest point of the river, which always struck me as odd.
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Interesting observation and let’s hope the engineers looked at the impact of opening up the causeway on the infra-structure (footings, etc) of Gunningsville bridge. If the River width returns back to more of like it was years ago, is the Gunningsville bridge engineered for such?