5 May 2015
Urgent work to save the New Brighton pier
Urgent work to save the New Brighton pier in Christchurch will cost more than twice what was spent building the attraction in the first place. An assessment has found the Canterbury earthquakes caused the columns on the 300-metre long pier to crack, exposing their reinforcing to the sea. The pier cost 4 million dollars to build in 1997, but the repair's likely to cost between 8 and 9 million.