At Urunga, the Pacific Highway bypasses the town centre just to the west, however, the town has grown with ribbon development along the highway. The original alignment of the Pacific Highway through Urunga saw it leave the current route at Pilot Street, following Pilot Street across the railway line at Urunga Station, thence north along Orara Street and west along Bellingen Street to an oil-driven, six-car punt across the Kalang River. A bridge across the river was constructed by the Public Works Department in 1928, as the punt had become a point of congestion - newspaper reports of 1925 describe it as “very heavily trafficked”. There was some opposition from the local Progress Association over the location of the bridge, because it bypassed the town (the southern approach included a 1km deviation which eliminated two railway crossings and a circuitous route through Urunga town centre) and it was thought this would have an adverse impact on business. Nonetheless, the site was chosen as it was the most suitable to give least expensive construction and avoid the possibility of flooding and thus construction went ahead. The timber truss bridge was opened to traffic on 29 September 1929.
Increasing traffic saw the need to replace the timber bridge appear in the 1960s and thus the Department of Main Roads began investigating possible bridge sites. A location immediately downstream from the timber bridge, and upstream from the railway bridge, was chosen and construction commenced in late 1970. The new bridge, a six-span, 752ft long concrete box-girder structure was opened to traffic on 13 March 1972. The old bridge has since been demolished, although the former approaches are still trafficable.
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