Keeping an eye on bridge progress

You can now keep an eye online on progress on the replacement of the Church Road bridge. "The view now" is updated every 15 minutes and there is also a time lapse showing how the works got to this stage.

The page says:

In the early hours of the morning on Sunday 20 July, Church Road Bridge in Frampton Cotterell was closed for the final time to allow replacement of the bridge deck that passes over the River Frome. Our workforce worked throughout the day to remove the old carriageway surfacing, expose the bridge deck and its supports. Throughout the week specialist contractors worked using a diamond saw to cut the 130 tonne bridge deck into manageable sections. Problems were encountered throughout the week with the positioning and spacing of some of the steel reinforcement, but operatives worked into the early evenings to ensure that project timescales were not compromised.  

On Saturday 26 July, in front of a small crowd, the redundant bridge deck was lifted from its supports and hauled away from site where the old concrete will then be crushed and recycled. The demolition phase of the project has been completed on-time and now the next phase of re-building the bridge supports commences for a period of two weeks. 

It's great news that the work is on track so far.