I'll assume, going from the satellite image that it's a divided road, Rose, so there's a sizable patch of grass between the North and Southbound lanes, plenty of room to pull over...
Back in the day, that's going back some thirty odd years, it was a much smaller road, and the bridges scattered along it were pretty narrow, too...
I'd make the run from Grafton/Maclean up to Brisbane in the early hours of the morning, to escape the worst of the traffic, but even then, that led to a few hair raising incidents - say I was heading North and a truck was heading South, and because of the narrow bridge, the truckie'd straddle the centre line as he crossed the bridge....
The bridges, back then, were raised higher than the road, so it was like cresting a small hill...
Often enough the first and last thing you saw, without any warning, was a set of headlights... Big headlights... coming straight at you...
I swear my guardian angel worked overtime, sometimes... ha ha...
I finally fitted a CB radio to the bike so I could keep an ear out for truckies announcing that they were about to cross whichever bridge, North or Southbound...
That area had a poor reputation when it came to crashes.
I'm sure that when the new highway went in it made things safer, better, but it's still a shame to see that people still die there, needlessly...
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