Darren Turner
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The lifting footbridge spans the Manchester Ship Canal linking The Lowry Theatre, Art Museum & Shopping Mall with Trafford Wharfside and the site of the Imperial War Museum.
This 92 metre long, single span bridge provides pedestrian and cycle access across the canal while continuing to maintain the regular shipping traffic.
Four tubular steel towers, each 30 metres in height, allow the deck to be raised 23 metres above the canal waterline when shipping needs to pass. Motors drive a 60 tonne counterweight down each tower, which, by way of a series of pulleys, vertically lifts the 250 tonne deck
Time to build: 1.5 years
Construction cost: £5 million
Daz
( i bet you didnt realise how interesting a brdige could be