A 764-or-so-year bridge

A109 Light Utility Helicopter flight with mayor Gisborne City from the air in November 2023.

Opinion

Would The Gisborne Herald, the district council and others cease spreading the misinformation of calling that unnecessary structure a “thousand-year bridge”.
The Polynesian people who became Māori arrived in Aotearoa around the years 1250 to 1275, according to the latest research (https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2207609119).
This date has been established by careful scientific and multi-disciplinary methods.
Therefore, until the appropriate decade is reached on the calendar, the utterly wasteful footbridge can currently be only the 764-year (or so) bridge. 
Inconvenient for the reshaping of history, perhaps — but Māori have not been here for a thousand years.

Roger Handford