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Story: Bridges and tunnels

Denis McGrath bridge, Wellington

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Denis McGrath bridge, Wellington

Denis McGrath crosses ‘his’ bridge on the day it opened in 1978. McGrath was a long-term Wellington city councillor and deputy mayor. The bridge is a pedestrian overbridge across the Wellington motorway.

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Alexander Turnbull Library, Dominion Post Collection (PA-Group-00685)

Reference: EP/1978/2280/20a-F

Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

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Jock Phillips, Bridges and tunnels – Building bridges and tunnels, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/23633/denis-mcgrath-bridge-wellington (accessed 7 June 2026).

Story by Jock Phillips, published 10 March 2010, updated 1 August 2024.