The bridge isn’t the foundation of this malaise, but
it’s location has a way of positing what we’d see in
evidence; there’s no way 277 bridge suicides from
leaping off Brisbane River bridges is ‘causal’ claim
to the penchant - and that’s only since the 1990s -
but we have seen reductions with barriers evident;
it isn’t difficult to digress from statistical arguments
to damning a Council’s intransigence to erect ‘em
But this is the Story Bridge we’re talking about, an
icon at its 75th anniversary; if four workers died of
decompression accidents during construction, the
reasoning ended there, it doesn’t mean the bridge
somehow caused a curse to remain, anything but
yet in a sense it left a legacy for Council to bear
Finally, in its 75th year - barriers are on the way
© 22 September 2015, I. D. Carswell
Brisbane has 15 bridges across the metropolitan area of river
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