The Victorian railway had closed in the 1980s and the tracks were removed to form the coast-to-coast cycle path. The road above narrowed to cross the bridge, creating a bottleneck for drivers as traffic could only flow in one direction at a time. Over the next 30 years’, the railway bridge fell in to disrepair and closed fully to all traffic including pedestrians, cyclists and vehicles in 2015. The project involved: • demolition of the bridge to remove future maintenance concerns and existing weight restrictions. • construction of 0.5 kilometres of new or improved and side road junctions • realigning the road to allow two-way traffic • construction of a 3.5-metre-wide path for pedestrians and cyclists, whilst maintaining the C2C route • installing new traffic management • pr

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