00:00Maureen and Sam are decades apart but they share one thing in common.
00:07They were both born at the site of the Fremantle traffic bridge.
00:11I couldn't wait, so in all the rain and the whole bit, Dad delivered me.
00:16It's cool to be here I guess and see a whole new bridge being constructed.
00:19It doesn't happen very often.
00:20The pair was invited alongside 80 others to make a final trip across the bridge
00:25ahead of construction of its $430 million replacement.
00:29The visit meant a lot to Maureen who says for years she walked across the bridge every day to her work nearby.
00:35Oh, it's nostalgic because it's part of you that's not there anymore, you know.
00:41But I think what they're doing is really necessary and that's progress, isn't it?
00:47One local and his daughter share an interest in bridges and we're excited to be part of the occasion.
00:52I think it's going to be fantastic for the area but also just aesthetically they're pretty impressive
00:56so it's going to look pretty amazing.
00:57The Transport Minister says she received positive feedback about the project
01:01and hopes demolition might reveal some history.
01:04They can take the foundation off now and we can see what plaques might exist underneath.
01:10So hopefully as part of the demolition we actually even learn more about the bridge
01:14as we find some hidden secrets throughout the bridge as well.
01:18A final goodbye to almost 90 years of memories.
01:22so I've made some of these things in the past.
01:23I haven't noticed it being a little bit of a new detail.
01:26Then I see they have a little one for a long time, which I'm trying to see what it is.
01:28I don't want to see what it's dark and that we're doing here.
01:29But I'm trying to see what a filmmaking in this.
01:31Maybe it's a little bit.
01:32Maybe it's a little bit.
01:33Maybe I just did not know that what it was, the one that has started out.
01:35Maybe I just didn't know how it was.
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