Last night I noticed they've taken the temporary cable down... I'm guessing the replacement cable goes up today _________________ Now coming at you with 95% more significance, 1% less salt and virtually fat free!
GLASGOW'S Squinty Bridge is to reopen tomorrow night.
The £20million bridge, officially named the Clyde Arc, was closed in
January after one of its four ton 115ft steel supporting ties broke free and
crashed on to the carriageway.
Workers were forced to replace all 28 connectors on the structure.
It was supposed to take only a few weeks, but a closer inspection by
Kilsyth-based construction firm Edward Nuttall found a crack in a second of
the 14 supports.
The major faults came to light just 15 months after the bridge opened.
Cranes and barges were used to weld reinforced steel to the bridge to take
the weight of the road over the river before engineers could repair the
connection.
The Clyde Arc links Finnieston to Govan and was the first road bridge to be
built over the Clyde for more than three decades.
But by the time work began in 2005 construction costs had risen from the
original estimate of £8m to £20.3m. It opened in September 2006.
The bridge will reopen at 9pm tomorrow and councillor Ruth Simpson,
executive member for land and environmental services, said: "The Clyde
Arc has proved extremely popular with the people of Glasgow and I am
pleased we can give them back their bridge.
"It has been disappointing to be without it in recent months, but public
safety is our priority and time and caution has been necessary."
James H _________________ The blinding obvious is what you showed to me.....
Funny story I heard from my friend down in London the other day, he told me about his holiday in China last year and about this stunning suspension bridge ... and that the tourist guide told them that all the material was sourced locally, apart from the cable which came from the UK, as China cannot produce cable that would be of the quality required for a bridge.
Maybe we should let tourist guides be the project managers of our next bridge? _________________ We've gone on holiday by mistake.
Have I got something wrong? Just which bridge is the squinty/squiggly bridge? Some one posted some time ago as though it was the one what broke its supporting cables... but then there is this latest PR release from the Glasgow Financial District Team:
Quote:
Pedestrian Bridge Ready for next Spring
Work on the brand new pedestrian bridge linking the IFSD directly with Tradeston on the south bank of the River Clyde will be completed by the end of this year.
And, officials from Glasgow City Council confirmed this month that they expect the latest bridge across the Clyde to be ready for public use by Spring 2009.
Called the ‘Squiggly Bridge’ by some locals because of its distinctive ‘S’ shaped design, the pedestrian bridge is a central part of a £33 million programme of regeneration and improvement works on both sides of the river.
Earlier this year, Glasgow City Council appointed Wilson Bowden to design and build a stylish new £10m restaurant quarter right next to the new pedestrian bridge. They will create 30,000 sq ft. of pavilions to house a series of bars, restaurants and cafes.
Councillor George Ryan, Glasgow City Council said: "This new bridge and the public space around it will be the next step in the regeneration of the Clydeside.”
Easy access is one of the IFSD’s biggest assets including Glasgow Central railway station on its eastern boundary and the M8 motorway on its western edge, offering fast, efficient links to Glasgow Airport.
The Squinty (or Clyde Arc) is the bridge that broke its cable and runs from Finnieston to Mavisbank Quay, very close to the old Stobcross ferry.
The Squiggly is a pedestrian bridge which will cross the river from beside the Riverboat Casino to the old Euroyachts yard and the deck will be 's' shaped.
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