Talk:Narrows Bridge (Perth)

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Did these bridges design themselves?

Congratulations to Mark on a major rework of this article, with lots (too much?) detail. However the names of the designers of the 2nd and 3rd bridges have been deleted. Did they design themselves? Paul Fisher (talk) 11:56, 28 November 2008 (UTC)

:I just couldn't find decent sources for a few of the statements that were in the article prior to my update, so I thought I'd leave them out pending another visit to the Battye Library when I can hopefully find it written somewhere. Nothing on Factiva shows up. I've added the few web references I could find, but they aren't particularly reliable. - Mark 15:34, 28 November 2008 (UTC)

:::Thanks Mark. I'd regard the Wyche Consulting paper by Noel Wenham as reliable - he was on the Package E design team (as was I). I'll try to dig up a GHD reference as well. Paul Fisher (talk) 00:08, 29 November 2008 (UTC)

::::http://www.engineersaustralia.org.au/divisions/western-australia-division/excellence-awards/past-winners/2006-winners.cfm (Under "Infrastructure & Building")

::::http://www.ghd.com.au/aptrixpublishing.nsf/Content/PerthRail_prj

::::Strange (and disappointing) that there isn't much written up on this very interesting project. Paul Fisher (talk) 08:04, 11 December 2008 (UTC)

Good article

I was considering nominating this as a Good article, per the 200 GA drive for WP:AUS. The aricle seems to meet the criteria as far as I can see. Are there any suggestions for improvement before I do so? –Moondyne 03:02, 11 December 2008 (UTC)

Congratulations and thank you...

...to all who participated in getting this up to Good Article status. Mark did a huge re-write a couple of months back which was no doubt a major factor. At the time I thought he'd put in too much detail, but I'm happy to be proved wrong. Paul Fisher (talk) 06:03, 11 February 2009 (UTC)

Harold Boas - timing

Narrows Bridge (Perth)#First road bridge: 1959 says:

{{quotation|Site investigations for the bridge began in August 1954. The bridge was proposed for The Narrows site by the Town Planning Commission under the chairmanship of Harold Boas.}}

Boas (assuming that the link is correct) was only chairman until 1942, so the mention of him here looks to be out of place chronologically. Should we change it to:

{{quotation|Site investigations for the bridge began in August 1954. ~~The bridge was proposed for~~ The Narrows site had been proposed by the Town Planning Commission under the chairmanship of Harold Boas in 19xx.}}

Do we know when it was proposed? Perhaps the first sentence (investigations began in 1954) should be moved later into the paragraph? Mitch Ames (talk) 08:48, 2 March 2014 (UTC)

:I found [http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/52960295 this 11 August 1954 announcement that "The State Cabinet has decided on preliminary work being done for the eventual construction of a bridge over the Swan River at the Narrows], which may help. Mitch Ames (talk) 11:48, 2 April 2014 (UTC)