New Runcorn/Widnes Bridge update

[Beemer]

That's the shuttering for the concrete pillars Peter and when done that big orange machine over in Widnes will ride over the top of them laying the new road.

[Beemer]

Here a few photos from the Daresbury/ Central Expressway junction of what will be the Runcorn end of the new bridge. It shows that the concrete pillars that will support the bridge approach road are coming on a treat.

IMG_5722 A by Brian Lindsay Thompson, on Flickr

IMG_5714 A by Brian Lindsay Thompson, on Flickr

IMG_5710 A by Brian Lindsay Thompson, on Flickr

IMG_5706 A by Brian Lindsay Thompson, on Flickr

IMG_5703 A by Brian Lindsay Thompson, on Flickr

IMG_5690 A by Brian Lindsay Thompson, on Flickr

IMG_5685 A by Brian Lindsay Thompson, on Flickr

DSCF9167 A by Brian Lindsay Thompson, on Flickr

DSCF9165 A by Brian Lindsay Thompson, on Flickr

Regards Beemer.

[bulldog]

We should see big changes on Widnes side shortly as it looks like all roads to the roundabout on the widnes side will be closed for 4 days from 18th September . Roundabout by McDonald's is disappearing and I would guess they will be surfacing it during that period.

[mb]

Just out of interest,has anybody ever thought of setting up a petition objecting to the intended tolls on the existing and new bridge in that they would be another tax on getting to and from Liverpool.And please don't tell me someone has to pay for the new build .We motorists already have,many times over.

£12 Billion Overseas Aid anyone?

[liverpoolman1]

During the planning stage I wrote, at the Traffic Commissioners request to all interested parties, with the suggestion that the bridge should be toll free. The logic behind my argument was that, from the mouth of the Mersey to Warrington, there were only tolled crossings. My point was that this was not conducive to generating and stimulating the economies of Merseyside/the Wirral and Cheshire. it also de-incentivises travel from North Wales. The economic argument for the local area was dismissed as "the bridge has to be paid for". Huh, as if we don't pay for these things through road and fuel tax!

There are wider issues than a bridge - the Northern Powerhouse has to be paid for as well as HST. For goodness sake, if these have to be paid for then we have no chance of getting a fair deal on a road bridge. Could you imagine the Thelwall Viaduct being tolled? Of course not but he M50 at Newport in South Wales is. It's all political, don't y'know.