Teesquay Millennium Bridge - Stockton-On-Tees, UK
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N 54° 33.741 W 001° 18.617
30U E 609256 N 6047405
Teesquay Millennium Footbridge is a footbridge crossing east-west over the River Tees between Stockton high street and Thornaby (Teesdale Business Park).
Waymark Code: WM16R2M
Location: North East England, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 09/21/2022
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At the western end of the bridge it connects to another concrete deck footbridge that crosses the A1035, a busy dual carriageway and gives access to the Castlegate Shopping Mall.
The bridge was built for the Millennium and opened on the 20th December 2000.
"Stockton Borough Council provided a brief for a 'design and build' competition to construct a pedestrian bridge across the River Tees.[4] The 'design and build' competition was won by a team comprising Ove Arup and Birse Construction. Their entry was the only one to satisfy the local council's strictly limited budget.
The bridge has a cable-stayed design with architecture by Yee Associates and designed by Ove Arup whereas the identification signage on the bridge states that it was designed by the constructor, Birse Construction. It has a 40-metre (131 ft) 'A' frame pylon/mast with fanned cables and has a total span of 153 m (502 ft). The walkway is 2.7 m (9 ft) wide narrowing to 2 m (7 ft) on the extension over Riverside Road to the Castlegate Centre.
The bridge was fabricated in Spain, constructed on site by Birse Construction North East and completed in December 2000 at a cost of £1.4m.
The bridge was opened on 20 December 2000 by Dari Taylor, Member of Parliament for Stockton South, and the mayor of Stockton-on-Tees. The Teesgate Millennium Footbridge was one of the few number of millennium footbridges to be actually completed in the millennium year, but unlike some high-profile millennium footbridges it was not funded by the Millennium Commission.
The bridge has been criticised for both wobbling and being too narrow to accommodate cyclists who are required to dismount and are barred from entering the Castlegate Centre in any case."
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