Span still missing on bridge to nowhere with completion pushed back to next year

There will be no Christmas present for those hoping to see the completion of the city’s $11 million Bridge of Remembrance.

Contruction continues on the Remembrance Bridge linking the Hobart Domain and the Cenotaph. The work is set to continue into next year.

THERE will be no Christmas present for those hoping to see the completion of the city’s $11 million Bridge of Remembrance.

On Friday, a Hobart City Council spokesman confirmed it had yet to be advised of a new date for the lift by contractor Fulton Hogan but said it would not be before Christmas.

The works will not happen until next year.

The Bridge of Remembrance is still under construction.

The lifting of the span of the bridge was meant to happen at the weekend of October 12-14 but was delayed because the contractor was not satisfied with the finish of the cladding.

The raising of the span was then rescheduled to the weekend of November 2-4 but then cancelled because of bad weather. Bad weather once again foiled plans for the works to happen at the November 23-25 weekend.

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The bridge is being built to commemorate 100 years since the end of World War I.

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