Teesquay Millennium Footbridge

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Teesquay Millennium Footbridge
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Teesquay Millennium Footbridge
Coordinates 54°33′44.5″N1°18′35.2″W / 54.562361°N 1.309778°W / 54.562361; -1.309778 Coordinates: 54°33′44.5″N1°18′35.2″W / 54.562361°N 1.309778°W / 54.562361; -1.309778
CarriesPedestrians
Crosses Teesdale Way,
River Tees,
Riverside Road
Locale Stockton-on-Tees, England
Official nameTeesquay Millennium Footbridge
Preceded by Victoria Bridge
Followed by Princess of Wales Bridge
Characteristics
Design Cable-stayed bridge
MaterialSteel and concrete
Width2.7 metres (9 ft)
No. of spans4
Piers in water1
History
ArchitectYee Associates
Designer Ove Arup
Constructed byBirse Construction
Construction endDecember 2000
Inaugurated20 December 2000
Location
Teesquay Millennium Footbridge

Teesquay Millennium Footbridge is a footbridge crossing east-west over the River Tees between Stockton high street and Thornaby (Teesdale Business Park) in Northern England. It is just east of Stockton town centre and in the town's namesake borough. [1] [2] [3]

Contents

The bridge crosses the Teesdale Way cycle route, River Tees, and the A1035 Riverside Road. Funding for the bridge was from Stockton-on-Tees Council, the European Regional Development Fund, One NorthEast, and English Partnerships. [2]

Teesquay Millennium Footbridge is also referred to as the Millennium Bridge.

Design

Stockton Borough Council provided a brief for a 'design and build' competition to construct a pedestrian bridge across the River Tees. [4] The 'design and build' competition was won by a team comprising Ove Arup and Birse Construction. [4] Their entry was the only one to satisfy the local council's strictly limited budget. [4]

The bridge has a cable-stayed design [1] [5] with architecture by Yee Associates [5] and designed by Ove Arup [1] whereas the identification signage on the bridge states that it was designed by the constructor, Birse Construction. It has a 40-metre (131 ft) 'A' frame pylon/mast with fanned cables [1] [2] [3] [6] and has a total span of 153 m (502 ft). [7] The walkway is 2.7 m (9 ft) wide narrowing to 2 m (7 ft) on the extension over Riverside Road to the Castlegate Centre. [8]

Construction

The bridge was fabricated in Spain, [9] constructed on site by Birse Construction North East [1] [2] [5] [6] and completed in December 2000 [1] [5] at a cost of £1.4m. [6]

Operation

The bridge was opened on 20 December 2000 [1] [9] [10] by Dari Taylor, Member of Parliament for Stockton South, and the mayor of Stockton-on-Tees. [9] The Teesgate Millennium Footbridge was one of the few number of millennium footbridges to be actually completed in the millennium year, but unlike some high-profile millennium footbridges it was not funded by the Millennium Commission. [4]

The bridge has been criticised for both wobbling [11] [12] and being too narrow to accommodate cyclists who are required to dismount and are barred from entering the Castlegate Centre in any case.

Castlegate Quay

Up-river on Castlegate Quay by the western side of the bridge there is the Castlegate Quay Watersports Centre.

See also

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