IF YOU want to see steam coming out of the locals' ears in Echuca and Moama at the moment, just mention the word "bridge".
Debate over where to locate a second bridge over the Murray has dragged on for years and the locals' patience is wearing thin.
The delay has even meant that $14 million earmarked for a new bridge was withdrawn by the Federal Government, leaving the project unfunded.
At least now an agreement, of sorts, has been made on the location.
But the locals can take some sort of comfort in the fact it took 14 years and a royal commission before the current bridge was finally built in the late 1870s.
According to local history buff Bruce Gow, who owns a copy of the royal commission report of 1878 which finally gave the green light for the bridge, a local called James Shackell had offered to build a bridge with his own money in 1864.
He was knocked back.
Funny how history has a habit of repeating itself.
