Major Road out of Sydney Closed for 3 Months

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Amazingly the only western route out of Sydney across the Blue Mountains is closed for three months due to a failure of a convict built bridge.

For that time the only way out of Sydney westward is the Bells Line of Road, the original circuitous, winding route across the Blue Mountains that took 10 years after first settlement to discover.

The failed bridge at Mount Victoria was built by convicts in the 1830s and has been in use ever since on the major route to western NSW (BTW a route I absolutely hate having to use)

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I’m sure we have plenty of convicts here in The UK that could be sent over. It’d make the repairs somehow more authentic and keeping that feeling of tradition.
How many do you think you need Bruce? :thinking:

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I found a pic. As you can see hardly what you would expect for a major road linking the state’s capital to the rest of NSW.

You can view the traffic cam live here:

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This picture and story has appeared in some of our newspapers also a close up of the cracks.