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Linda Libuyu Suspended Pedestrian Footbridge
Project # 060
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Bridge Sponsors: Ambler Rotary Club, Pennsylvania, Shoemaker & Haaland Professional Engineers
Grant sponsors: The Rotary Clubs of Nkwazi, Zambia & Newport News, USA; supported by a grant from the Rotary Foundation
Partners: The University of Iowa, University of Zambia College of Engineering, Zambia Roads Development Authority (RDA)
Bridge Designers and Construction Coordination: Zoe Pacciani
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River Name: Maramba Stream
Bridge Name: Linda Libuyu Suspended Pedestrian Footbridge
Bridge Span: 45 meters
Pedestrian Footbridge Type: Suspended Footbridge
Community Name: Livingstone urban area
Population served by bridge: This site has high traffic volume backing Linda High school and providing access to the main Livingstone market for a large urban community.
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Bridge story: “I was walking back from market with my remaining wares. On my way I had to cross the Maramba stream to get home. It’s rainy season and the stream floods. Sometimes we have to wait for hours. Other times we just walk around. This time the waters were not too high so I felt I could cross. A child on the other side got to the small bridge before me and saw it first. I saw him running away. Crocodile, crocodile he was screaming. I looked down and there it was, very big, bigger than I’d seen before, at least 3m. And he was waiting under the bridge – hunting humans. If the child had not seen him my baby and I would have been lunch, and dinner. The local men scared him away with rocks and noise, but now I’m scared to cross.” A bridge at Linda-Libuyu will save lives.
Read more from the Iowa City Gazette, here.
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Project #060 Linda Libuyu Suspended Pedestrian Footbridge
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