Mersey Gateway gets interactive
New interactive features on the Mersey Gateway website are enabling Halton residents and commuters to keep-up-to-date with the construction of the Mersey Gateway Bridge at the click of a button.
The new features include:
- ‘Down Your Street’, a series of interactive maps that show the latest information about works likely to impact local residents, businesses and commuters; and
- a live image gallery, where photographs of the bridge construction are streamed directly from a time-lapse camera installed on site.
Site tour for Mersey Gateway volunteers
Volunteers who will be helping the Mersey Gateway project toured a variety of locations on the site recently.
Mersey Gateway volunteers enjoyed a tour of the project site recently.
This involved dropping into the Catalyst Science Discovery Centre, travelling to the observatory, and heading down to the river bank to see the construction work currently taking place to build the trestle bridge.
Merseylink boosts construction crew with local recruits
Merseylink has bolstered its bridge-building crew with the appointment of construction workers from Halton and the surrounding area.
Forty local people have joined the construction consortium so far, working across a range of roles from administration to construction, and this number will increase as work progresses.
(L-R) Local construction workers Kevin Gibney from Liverpool, Chris Moore from Runcorn, Bill Dale from Runcorn, Edward Gray from Liverpool, and Simon Holker from St Helens, with Merseylink foreman Jim Jewell.
Merseylink opens second round of Time Bank scheme
Halton community organisations, local businesses, and schools are once again being invited to apply for specialist support through the Merseylink Time Bank.
Merseylink opened the second round of its Time Bank scheme on 15 September and will accept applications until 15 October 2014. Read more →
Major work starts on Mersey Gateway road network
The Mersey Gateway team is shovel ready as they prepare to start the project’s first piece of major road work.
On October 1, work will begin at Junction 12 of the M56 in Runcorn.
Workers will begin site clearance at the roundabout north of the M56 – where the motorway joins the Weston Point Expressway (A557) – this will lead to six months of work, during off-peak traffic times, with further work to follow once the site clearance is completed. Read more →