By John Baron
Contractors will be working to secure damaged Wyther Lane Bridge next Monday – but it could be several weeks before the bridge is reopened.
Leeds City Council says contractors will be on site from Monday, 17 March and that work to repair the bridge – which was damaged after being hit by a vehicle last week – will take three to five days.
Once the bridge – which is the responsibility of the Canal and River Trust – repairs are completed, the council’s highways department will put additional measures in place to reduce the likelihood of bridge strikes in the future.
Thos measures – as yet unspecified – will take a further two weeks after which the council hopes the bridge should be in a position to reopen in early April.
In 2021 Wyther Lane Bridge was closed between March and December following a crash which caused damage to the bridge over the Leeds and Liverpool Canal.
Since the traffic lights were put in and the footpath re modeled the footpath is really wide in places so longer vehicles struggle to get round the corner, you can see all the scrape marks on the bridge parapet, there was never a issue here, then then if anyone has noticed they put 3 bollards in to stop vehicles mounting the kerb to get round and this seems tp,have caused more damage to the bridge