Runcorn: New Bridge Big Strides | movie | 1960 | Official Trailer
New bridge under construction will replace old transporter bridge. | dG1fOFNLTkFBQWV3TG8
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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]