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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Josh Taylor

Low blow: is fixing Montague Street’s ‘pure evil’ bridge beyond Melbourne?

bus crashed into the Montague Street Bridge
After a bus crashed into the Montague Street Bridge in South Melbourne in 2016, Daniel Andrews called it ‘pure evil’. Photograph: Mal Fairclough/AAP

As yet another truck joins the hundreds to get stuck under the notorious Montague Street Bridge, can anything more be done to fix the South Melbourne structure that the premier, Daniel Andrews, once described as “pure evil”?

On Tuesday, a white panelled hire truck was the bridge’s latest victim, becoming lodged underneath shortly after 9am, blocking one lane of traffic in South Melbourne and sustaining damage to its roof and sides.

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