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Further work on a Dorset bridge will begin next year, it has been confirmed. Weymouth harbour's lifting bridge was shut to traffic from September until the end of November this year for repair.
Repairs to a seaside town's lifting bridge will see it shut for 10 weeks. Weymouth Town Bridge needs to have welds that attach the steel deck plates under the road surface to its beams replaced.
A town's lifting bridge is to be repaired and repainted. Dorset Council's area planning committee have approved the listed building consent for Weymouth Town Bridge, which spans the River Wey and ...
Drivers have been ignoring signals warning them not to cross a lifting bridge, a council has said. Weymouth and Portland Borough Council said it had handed CCTV footage to police showing several ...
A safety message broadcast at a town's lifting bridge has been updated to urge drivers to turn off their engines while they ...
WEYMOUTH — Officials say the span of the ... replacement project included the construction of the new vertical-lift bridge and demolition of a temporary span, which was built after a draw ...
In the meantime, a temporary vertical lift bridge was put in place over the Weymouth Fore River in 2002. The new Fore River Bridge opened to traffic in September 2017 and was completed in 2018 at ...
MassDOT officials say the "vertical lift" bridge design they've selected ... Local examples include the Fore River Bridge between Quincy and Weymouth, and the Cape Cod Canal Railroad Bridge ...
WEYMOUTH, MASS. (WHDH) - Leaders met in Weymouth Saturday to honor an officer killed on-duty in 2018, dedicating the towns Route 18 Bridge to him. Sergeant Michael Chesna was shot and killed in ...