City Bridge Renewal Programme
A provisional schedule for the replacement of eight city bridges over six' years at an estimated total cost of £299,500 was put to the City Council last evening by the works committee.
The bridges are Ferrymead, estimated to cost £115,000, and on which work has already begun, Madras street, £37,000; Worsleys road. £12,000: South Brighton, £80,000; Malcolm avenue, £12.000; Guild street, £6000; Julius terrace, £500: and Stanmore road, £37,000. Madras street bridge should be next on the replacement programme, the committee said. It would have a 48ft
carriageway and two nine-foot paths. The council agreed that this bridge should be closed to all heavy traffic and that the Christchurch Fire Board be advised that use of the bridge by fire engines should be avoided as far as possible. The bridge would have been under reconstruction if its priority had not been superseded by the Ferrymead bridge, the committee said. As it was due for replacement in 1968, expenditure on extensive repairs could not be justified. A 15-mile-an-hour speed limit was also fixed for the South Brighton bridge.
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Press, Volume CV, Issue 31009, 15 March 1966, Page 18
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181City Bridge Renewal Programme Press, Volume CV, Issue 31009, 15 March 1966, Page 18
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