engineer's report commissioned to "determine what further actions were required from a public safety perspective" would be released in October.

ROSS GIBLIN/STUFF A council spokesperson said ''remedial action'' to fix structural problems with the bridge were being investigated.

Stuff requested a copy of the report but it had not been provided with one by time of publication.

Council officials were first made aware of issues surrounding the bridge in 2009.

Urgent measures were then taken to "prevent an unexpected collapse" of the bridge, according to a 2011 letter to the council from Carl Ashby, then of engineering firm Spencer Holmes.

ROSS GIBLIN/STUFF A letter written in 2011 said a ''cost-effective'' method was chosen for strengthening measures on the bridge but issues remained.

Ashby wrote that work to fix many of the structural issues withthe bridge would have been "difficult and expensive" so a "cost-effective" method was chosen to strengthen the building to 40 per cent of code and remove the earthquake-prone status of the bridge.

"Critical design weaknesses meant it was difficult and expensive to strengthen the bridge to current full code levels as this would require substantial foundation work and upgrading of the seawall," he said.

ROSS GIBLIN/STUFF Demolition of the bridge was presented as one of three possible options for the bridge.

If the City to Sea Bridge is demolished it would mark the end of the line for a landmark well-used by tourists and locals alike.

Opened to the public in 1994 the bridge's history can be traced back to the 1980s when the Wellington Civic Trust ran a competition to find