The £10.5m project removed and restored the 200-year-old bridge across the River Tweed.
It had been shut for almost a year in 2007 due to structural problems.However, the price steadily increased to more than £10m and it slipped behind the original timetable.Martha Andrews said the bridge brought communities on both sides of the border together
"You don't realise how much you use it until it's not there so for the past two years we have being going round by Norham or round by Berwick instead of straight across the border, straight across the Tweed."We're going to be using it again and we are going to be using it every day and you'd be surprised if you stood here just how many cars go across it.
Covid and the complexity of the project meant that it has taken about a year longer than was first intended. Councils on both sides of the border and the National Lottery Heritage Fund helped fund the restoration.Joe Di Mauro - engineering director of the Spencer Group, which worked on the scheme - said it had been a special project.
"There are not many of these structures around in the world so having the opportunity to work on this is a privilege."
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