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Current affairs with John Campbell.
“Last night ‘Outrageous Fortune’ took six awards at the Air New Zealand Screen Awards, including the top award for Best Drama Programme.
We speak with James Griffin, who won Best Drama Script, and Robyn Malcolm, who won Best Actress.
After the bridge collapse in Minneapolis, it seems almost miraculous the death toll is currently as low as seven. The Minneapolis bridge is a steel truss construction, the same as the Auckland Harbour Bridge. And the two bridges have a similar traffic count, about 150,000 cars a day.
While it is not yet known what caused this 40-year-old bridge to collapse, one of the things that can go wrong with steel truss bridges is metal fatigue.
So, how safe is the Auckland Harbour Bridge, and the roughly 70 other steel truss bridges in New Zealand’s road network? We speak to Roly Frost, Transit's General Manager for Network Operations." TV3; tv3.co.nz; 14/08/2007