Runcorn: New Bridge Big Strides | movie | 1960 | Official Trailer - video Dailymotion

New bridge under construction will replace old transporter bridge. | dG1fOFNLTkFBQWV3TG8

Transcript

00:00 [Music]

00:05 Runcorn and Witness will soon say goodbye to the old transporter bridge which has linked them for so many years.

00:10 Road traffic has beaten it.

00:12 At the most, the transporter can only handle a hundred vehicles an hour.

00:16 Less than half that number in bad weather.

00:19 What impatient motorists have been saying about it for a long time is unprintable.

00:23 All that will be changed by the new bridge,

00:25 which will carry some thousands every hour over the waters of the Mersey and the Manchester Ship Canal.

00:30 [Music]

00:32 Latest construction techniques ensure that the three million pound bridge will be ready for official opening next spring.

00:37 Demolishing the old transporter will take two years.

00:40 [Music]