Solway Street Bridge
The old Solway Street footbridge was closed due to storm damage, sometime before April 2006. The bridge was shored up and reopened in June 2007, even though a replacement bridge had been proposed since at least 2003. As of April 2008 it remained just a proposal.
The old bridge was finally washed away by flood waters very early in the morning of 5 February 2011, after heavy rain resulting from the remnants of Tropical Cyclone Yasi, rendering the bridge impassable. During the later half of 2011 the bridge was completely replaced and was opened to the Public unofficially on the 22nd December 2011.
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