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Date Created8th March 2023CommentsDavid Jackson
Wouldn't be a New Zealand scene without the good old orange road cones. Is there a single kilometer of road that you don't see one of them?
Troy Fensom
David Jackson sheep got to dare to farm and wool price went down so we turned them into sustainably sourced local made cones, we get the elderly in the homes to knit them and donate them 1% of profits so they can have a hot meal or a staff member to change the bedding that week, welcome to nz
David Jackson
Troy Fensom Getting that way. If they spent the money it costs on cones and lollipop men on actually fixing the roads, there would be a far better outcome.
Troy Fensom
David Jackson yeah or the 64million they just spent on an add campaign telling us their stupid idea of making accidents not a thing anymore #roadtozero what a joke
Ken Campbell
Troy Fensom The wages are quite good compared to Koreans making Niki shoes for the Chinese in Cambodian factories
Stu McConchie
David Jackson truth
Nick Morton
It was butifule,naw it looks like shit
Pam Murphy
Nick Morton yes
Sandy Brears
yeah, it was a hair raising ride in the 50's
Pam Murphy
Loved the old road better . Exciting to drive on
Stu McConchie
Used to love tht Bridge.
Barbara McNair
When I first travelled on it in the 50:s it was loose gravel and a dareing road to travel
Brent Gilmour
Dennis Poskitt
Samuel Steele
My father and myself drove through there one night while they were builing the new bridge and a truck had lost his breaks and was smashed face first into the new bridge structure, luckily we got to him in time.
Sha Un
Samuel Steele this one?
May be an image of 1 person and outdoors
Samuel Steele
Sha Un thats the one!
Wendy Bruce
That bridge was always a welcome sign heading to Christchurch knowing you’d survived the ZigZag yet again. Different feeling heading back to the Coast
Barry Louis Rochford
I slid and hit the bridge sign, John tucker was with me. We were very close to going over the bank. Lucky for us the sign stop us, we were heading back to ch ch to trade school about 1982?
Trish Rennie
The road is so much easier to drive now….love the stonework baskets through there….
Peter Spence
Used to drive Arthur's every fortnight in the early 60's - too many blow outs, so took the Lewis route from there forward - extra time but safer?
Arthur Bass
Slid down that hill a few times in the ice and snow.
Kevin Boyd
Now it's got road cones.
Tony Harwood
Have used the old on freight run at night the old Mack 5 axle B train
Trevor Hutt
The Staircase was my best part,loved the old road,motorcycling over in the winter
Peter Bradley
Trevor Hutt I liked the stair case in the summer with that Torana I had, would turn the music off and roll down the window and listen to
Wilhelmina Brandon
I always told the children time to be quiet when we did that climb, look down there, we don't want fall.
Pat Dooley
Good to see the obligatory row of red cones there
Sha Un
The old below the new.
May be an image of outdoors
Sha Un
What it was like in winter on the otira side of the bridge.
May be an image of nature and snow
Ian Miller
They are not in the same place so I wonder why they did not go here in the first place?
Richard Smith
I remember the top photo well.
Murray Bradley
Remember the old bridges well
Richard Pope
Yes the old bridge was built when engines were slower revving and without power steering. In winter it was a cold and slippery stretch until the MOW laid coarse chip for grip.
Richard Pope
Now it looks like a slalom course, esp. without AA signage.Helen Green
I agree!!
Simon Dale Sheehan
Was there the day they blasted the rock to the approach to the new bridge with dad at taggarts dad seedy and Kevin nortman went over on taggarts break up day only meant to be a small job be back in time for a beer was told then over 350t of rock came down lol 2 days later it was unreal watching boulders fly across the other side of the river and the bloody loud bang lol
Colin Taylor
Geez I remember that bridge... Oh Crap. Im getting old hahaha. Great road trip back then
Bruce Whitfield
Something was lost in the "translation" I think. The bridge was a link back in time.
Wouldn't be a New Zealand scene without the good old orange road cones. Is there a single kilometer of road that you don't see one of them?
Troy Fensom
David Jackson sheep got to dare to farm and wool price went down so we turned them into sustainably sourced local made cones, we get the elderly in the homes to knit them and donate them 1% of profits so they can have a hot meal or a staff member to change the bedding that week, welcome to nz
David Jackson
Troy Fensom Getting that way. If they spent the money it costs on cones and lollipop men on actually fixing the roads, there would be a far better outcome.
Troy Fensom
David Jackson yeah or the 64million they just spent on an add campaign telling us their stupid idea of making accidents not a thing anymore #roadtozero what a joke
Ken Campbell
Troy Fensom The wages are quite good compared to Koreans making Niki shoes for the Chinese in Cambodian factories
Stu McConchie
David Jackson truth
Nick Morton
It was butifule,naw it looks like shit
Pam Murphy
Nick Morton yes
Sandy Brears
yeah, it was a hair raising ride in the 50's
Pam Murphy
Loved the old road better . Exciting to drive on
Stu McConchie
Used to love tht Bridge.
Barbara McNair
When I first travelled on it in the 50:s it was loose gravel and a dareing road to travel
Brent Gilmour
Dennis Poskitt
Samuel Steele
My father and myself drove through there one night while they were builing the new bridge and a truck had lost his breaks and was smashed face first into the new bridge structure, luckily we got to him in time.
Sha Un
Samuel Steele this one?
May be an image of 1 person and outdoors
Samuel Steele
Sha Un thats the one!
Wendy Bruce
That bridge was always a welcome sign heading to Christchurch knowing you’d survived the ZigZag yet again. Different feeling heading back to the Coast
Barry Louis Rochford
I slid and hit the bridge sign, John tucker was with me. We were very close to going over the bank. Lucky for us the sign stop us, we were heading back to ch ch to trade school about 1982?
Trish Rennie
The road is so much easier to drive now….love the stonework baskets through there….
Peter Spence
Used to drive Arthur's every fortnight in the early 60's - too many blow outs, so took the Lewis route from there forward - extra time but safer?
Arthur Bass
Slid down that hill a few times in the ice and snow.
Kevin Boyd
Now it's got road cones.
Tony Harwood
Have used the old on freight run at night the old Mack 5 axle B train
Trevor Hutt
The Staircase was my best part,loved the old road,motorcycling over in the winter
Peter Bradley
Trevor Hutt I liked the stair case in the summer with that Torana I had, would turn the music off and roll down the window and listen to
Wilhelmina Brandon
I always told the children time to be quiet when we did that climb, look down there, we don't want fall.
Pat Dooley
Good to see the obligatory row of red cones there
Sha Un
The old below the new.
May be an image of outdoors
Sha Un
What it was like in winter on the otira side of the bridge.
May be an image of nature and snow
Ian Miller
They are not in the same place so I wonder why they did not go here in the first place?
Richard Smith
I remember the top photo well.
Murray Bradley
Remember the old bridges well
Richard Pope
Yes the old bridge was built when engines were slower revving and without power steering. In winter it was a cold and slippery stretch until the MOW laid coarse chip for grip.
Richard Pope
Now it looks like a slalom course, esp. without AA signage.Helen Green
I agree!!
Simon Dale Sheehan
Was there the day they blasted the rock to the approach to the new bridge with dad at taggarts dad seedy and Kevin nortman went over on taggarts break up day only meant to be a small job be back in time for a beer was told then over 350t of rock came down lol 2 days later it was unreal watching boulders fly across the other side of the river and the bloody loud bang lol
Colin Taylor
Geez I remember that bridge... Oh Crap. Im getting old hahaha. Great road trip back then
Bruce Whitfield
Something was lost in the "translation" I think. The bridge was a link back in time.
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West Coast New Zealand History (9th Mar 2023). Bealey River , Arthurs Pass - Then and Now.. In Website West Coast New Zealand History. Retrieved 1st Apr 2026 17:07, from https://westcoast.recollect.co.nz/nodes/view/32064