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Teesquay Millennium Footbridge

Coordinates: 54°33′44.5″N 1°18′35.2″W / 54.562361°N 1.309778°W

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Teesquay Millennium Footbridge
Teesquay Millennium Footbridge
Coordinates	54°33′44.5″N 1°18′35.2″W / 54.562361°N 1.309778°W / 54.562361; -1.309778
Carries	Pedestrians
Crosses	Teesdale Way, River Tees, Riverside Road
Locale	Stockton-on-Tees, England
Official name	Teesquay Millennium Footbridge
Preceded by	Victoria Bridge
Followed by	Princess of Wales Bridge
Characteristics
Design	Cable-stayed bridge
Material	Steel and concrete
Width	2.7 metres (9 ft)
No. of spans	4
Piers in water	1
History
Architect	Yee Associates
Designer	Ove Arup
Constructed by	Birse Construction
Construction end	December 2000
Inaugurated	20 December 2000
Location

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]

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

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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

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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

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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

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

Photo gallery

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A rower under the Teesquay Millennium Bridge
View along the deck towards Teesdale Business Park
View from the steel steps on the Castlegate Quay side
Information board on the bridge pylon

References

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^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g "Teesquay Millennium Bridge". Bridges on the Tyne. Retrieved 22 August 2009.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Kenyon, Chris (March 2002). "A Trip up the Tees". Tees Rowing Club. Archived from the original on 12 April 2009. Retrieved 22 August 2009.
^ ^a ^b Vigur, Brian. "The "Steel River"". Retrieved 22 August 2009.^{[dead link‍]}
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d "Newsletter April 01" (PDF). Institution of Civil Engineers – North East. April 2001. Retrieved 19 October 2009. ^{[dead link‍]}
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Janberg, Nicolas. "Teesquay Millennium Bridge (2000)". Structurae. Retrieved 22 August 2009.
^ ^a ^b ^c "Bridge A-Team". Construction News. 14 December 2000. Retrieved 22 August 2009.
^ Infinity Bridge Information Board – The 8 Bridges Route, June 2009, retrieved 20 September 2013 – via WikiMedia Commons
^ "Teesside and Sedgefield". Lune Millennium Bridge. Archived from the original on 15 May 2008. Retrieved 22 August 2009.
^ ^a ^b ^c Smailes, Stephen (Councillor) (3 January 2001). "News, Sport, Business, Leisure from the North East and North Yorkshire – Letters". The Northern Echo. Retrieved 19 October 2009.^{[dead link‍]}
^ "The Bridges of Middlesbrough – Walks". The AA. Retrieved 22 August 2009.
^ "About Stockton Town Centre". Stockton Towntalk. Archived from the original on 16 October 2009. Retrieved 22 August 2009.
^ "Milewood Healthcare – Oxbridge House". Milewood Healthcare. Archived from the original on 25 December 2009. Retrieved 22 August 2009.

External links

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Teesquay Millennium Footbridge on the Bridges on the Tyne website
Teesquay Millennium Footbridge at Structurae
Tees Quay Millennium Bridge on Geograph
Replica HM Bark Endeavour
Castlegate Quay Watersports Centre.

Links to related articles

Places adjacent to Teesquay Millennium Footbridge

Princess of Wales Bridge

Stockton on Tees town centre

Teesquay Millennium Footbridge
over the River Tees.

Teesdale Business Park
Thornaby-on-Tees

Victoria Bridge

The borough of Stockton-on-Tees

Major Settlements

Villages

Constituencies: Stockton North; Stockton South

Culture, leisure
and tourism

Events: Stockton International Riverside Festival; Stockton Weekender

Parks: Preston Park; Ropner Park; Trinity Green

Countryside: Bassleton Wood and The Holmes; Portrack Marsh Nature Reserve; Portrack Meadows Wildlife Reserve; Quarry Wood

Misc: Tees Barrage International White Water Course; Tees Valley Giants; Teesside Park

Services

Education: Schools; Queen's Campus

Prison: Holme House; Kirklevington Grange

Organisations

Business: Teesdale Business Park
Industry: Billingham Manufacturing Plant; Teesside EfW plant
Mass Media: Radio Tees

Sport

Tees Barrage International White Water Course

Waterways

Rivers: Tees; Leven
Crossings: Yarm Viaduct; Preston Pipe Bridge; Jubilee Bridge; Surtees Bridge; Surtees Rail Bridge; Victoria Bridge; Teesquay Millennium Footbridge; Princess of Wales Bridge; Infinity Bridge; Tees Barrage; Tees Viaduct; Tees Newport Bridge; Middlesbrough Transporter Bridge

Transport

Air	Teesside International Airport
Rail	Lines Durham Coast Tees Valley Tees Valley Metro (proposed) Stations Allens West Billingham Eaglescliffe Stockton Thornaby Yarm
Road	A19 A66 A174