Transporting massive concrete bridge beams over the precipitous Arthur’s Pass during the past winter has been a challenging project – and an eye-catching one too, captivating tourists and birdlife alike. BY MARY SEARLE BELL.
At Kumara Junction, where State Highway 73 joins State Highway 6, just south of Greymouth, the Taramakau...
Of all the mountain roads in New Zealand, none matches Arthur’s Pass for the complexity of its engineering. HUGH DE LACY finds out why.
A FEW NOSES WERE put distinctly out of joint in the little engineering community of colonial Christchurch when a teenager fresh out of a local church school landed the job of surveying the wild West...
