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Conference Paper

Author: Stacy, Bill
Title: Road travel hazards and vicissitudes in Colonial South Australia
In: Transactions of the Sixth South Australian Engineering Heritage Conference - Adelaide, 12 May 2017
Imprint: Engineers Australia, South Australia Division, Adelaide, 2017, pp. 39-49
Abstract: We are accustomed to reliable and safe travel on our roads and would agree with the editor of the Advertiser who 158 years ago editorialised that "Good Roads are the Best Test of Civilisation". We don't expect these days to be held up by floodwaters or collapsing bridges, and neither do we expect to be bogged during wet weather. True, we might experience short delays by traffic congestion during peak periods, but these are mostly predictable and measured in minutes rather than hours or days.
Not so for our colonial forebears - their trips were neither as safe nor as reliable as ours today. When moving about South Australia they found their lives were all too often imperilled and inconvenienced by the limitations of the colony's roads and road transport.

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