Latest Bridges News

Structures specialist VSL will begin a three-month project today to clean all 288 stay cables on the Queensferry Crossing with the aim of preventing ice forming on the cables this winter.

Once again, the Office of Rail and Road (ORR) is browbeating Network Rail over timely delivery of assessments as though going through processes were the important issue.

The bridge, made up of two fixed spans and a lifting bascule span, is part of the floating harbour in Bristol, linking Redcliffe Way to the city centre. The lifting span allows larger boats to enter Welsh Back, a wharf alongside the floating harbour. It was constructed in 1942 and…

Cumbria County Council is seeking around £2M to carry out repairs to the Rigmaden Bridge, which carries the C5080 road over the River Lune near Kirkby Lonsdale.

The Department for Transport (DfT) has detailed how £5.7bn of government funding will be divided up between seven city regions to be spent on a total of 394 sustainable transport schemes over the next five years.

An urban sky park has opened to the public on the site of a disused railway viaduct in Manchester.

National Highways has opened the A46 flyover in Coventry ahead of the Commonwealth Games.

Croatian authorities have celebrated opening a 2.4km-long, 55m-high bridge that provides the first direct link between two distinct parts of the country.

HS2 footbridge designer Moxon Architects has revealed plans to turn an abandoned crossing in west London into a park straddling the Thames.

The first of four spans that will make up the new Dukes Meadows Bridge in Chiswick, part of the Thames Path, has been installed after having been brought to site by barge.