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I am a bit in the dark here. Is the bridge that is currently under construcion supposed to become the permanent bridge, because I see that some people refer to it as a temporary bridge?

sunday it was closed but the river was falling went in at mal sat and sunday what queues??

went out through croc about 3 weeks ago and it was iffy going over bridge close to being closed gave the a so an adrenaline rush as she was at the wheel made me chuckle though.

Just to say, I am pretty impressed. I had no sooner landed in JHB this morning when I received a phonecall from the guys at Croc Bridge gate to tell me the bridge was closed and to warn me that I needed to use Malelane to get into the park this afternoon.

Well done guys for the forward thinking and advising guests like this, some people may not always see the signs I believe are on the N4 at Malelane.

On the bright side, the new bridge's concrete "parts" were there on the roadside in front of the gate on Tuesday.

The temporary bridge is now the property of Mozambique and will soon be in the Indian ocean!

As far as I know, the old bridge is going to be lifted.

Transfrontier is .........bridge(ing) the gap

Contractor 1 - Larry?
Contractor 2 - Moe?
Contractor 3 - Curly?

Can I do it next time please. Just gimme the money and I will not waste the materials nor pollute the river.

Africa strikes again!

Yep, we all know the answers to all the questions put here. After all the futile attempts by the various "bridge builders" to build a proper bridge, when will the people that are in charge of the cheque book begin to realize that building a bridge is not the same as building a long drop toilet.

Non SA members of this forum must be thinking, what a bunch of idiots we have got here. We haven't been able to build a simple bridge over a river over a period of 2 years whilst any company of army engineers will be able to do a better job in a couple of hours.

If I elaborate, I will be banned from this forum.

You said it.......

Looking more and more like the Dutch army the.

Extremely solid. Easy too construct and has proven it's use over the last 6 decades.

@ Andrew Gericke---- Thanks for posting the positive feedback. People seem to be missing what you said..... Thats really world class customer service IMHO and should be roundly applauded I reckon

Absolutely true AjayB.

But the 'bridge' is not.

AWB is right.

One tends to get what one pays for in life and the allocation of funds was almost certainly based mainly on the volume of traffic on the bridge.I dont know that we know exactly how important it is in the grand scheme of things relative to all the other areas crying out for funding from a limited pot. Its a nasty balancing act and a very very thin line to walk making calls on judicious allocation of limited resources so I just wonder what the percentage is relative to expenditure in the rest of the park. Certainly looks to be a case of "goedkoop is duurkoop" ( translate:- bargain buying is expensive buying) even though the defence of really heavy rains is a valid one. Spilt milk either way--------

Have arrived in CB camp, and I can confirm that BB's comment re "another positive" is true. There are very few people in the camp tonight, so I can imagine we will have this corner of the park to ourselves for a few hours in the morning...