Leaders hope work will be completed in time for bridge’s centenary in 2028 despite rising costs and new complications
To say one of Britain’s best-loved bridges is in a sorry state might be an understatement.
Alastair Swan, principal engineer at Newcastle city council, agrees that the bridge is in a sorry state. “The bridge clearly looks tired, it looks depressed, it doesn’t look pleasant,” he said. “But it will be something we can be proud of again.” The bridge remains, Swan said, a “phenomenal” engineering achievement. In just three years between 1925 and 1928, engineers used pioneering techniques to construct what was atThe bridge has always been green, apart from in the 1960s, when it was painted blue and grey to reflect the livery of councils.
Swan estimates that the Tyne Bridge work will take three years. It would be quicker if it was possible to stop the traffic that thunders over the bridge night and day, but no one is proposing that. “You’re looking at 70,000 vehicles a day. Where do you put them?” Swan is phlegmatic. “They’re part of the Quayside. In engineering, there’s loads of things you have to work around, whether it be wildlife, noise or traffic. It is just one of those things.”
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