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Yalu River Bridge
photo: Facebook/Roberts M Rakaipane
An old bridge in Lae, Papua New Guinea, has been restored to service after flooding destroyed the Yalu River bridge late last week.
The Morobe area has been experiencing heavy rain for weeks and Radio New Zealand Pacific’s Papua New Guinea correspondent Scott Wade said even though the sun came out on Tuesday, more rain was on the way.
“The past three or four months have been unusual. We have had unprecedented heavy rains, which have affected bridges and roads,” he said.
this The Courier The heavy rains have killed three people, two of whom were killed in landslides and one was washed away, the newspaper reported.
The road, a key link to the Nazab Regional Airport, had been quiet for days, Wade said.
“So traffic was affected. As of Monday night, that part of the bridge had completely broken. So the construction team has been working on the bridge for three consecutive days and on Monday at 10 pm, they had fixed the passage and trucks could pass through.
“But the risk of heavy rain is still there because it’s still raining. We were lucky to have only one sunny day (Tuesday).”
But now, a decommissioned bridge has been put back into temporary use while a new bridge has been completed as part of a motorway widening project.
Wade said the road to the bridge was part of ongoing roadworks, so the bridge would have been replaced anyway, but it was the only bridge that led to the airport.
“This has affected food supply and people’s ability to bring food into the city to sell in the market.
“There are also temporary increases in the cost of services and the cost of goods, as is often the case when transportation is disrupted,” he said.
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