Eastern Daily Press article Four Norfolk bridges earmarked for repairs

The RAC has been highlighting the number of the UK's substandard bridges and Norfolk is listed as having 45 of them. Norfolk County Council - which has responsibility for most of them - does not accept the categorisation, pointing out that most have weight restrictions in place and are on minor roads.

Grahame Bygrave, Norfolk CC's director of Highways and Waste, has to say about the categorization 'substandard' (ie because they are incapable of carrying the heaviest vehicles now seen on our roads, including lorries of up to 44 tonnes):

“The majority of these are bridges on narrow quiet country lanes, and while the bridges that were built often more than half a century ago may not be able to carry the weight of today’s increasingly large and heavy HGVs, this doesn’t mean that they are not still doing a good job for the lighter traffic that uses them.

Four bridges - three over waterways and another over a railway - have been earmarked for potential repairs, to make sure they can carry traffic safely across them.  Feasibility studies are expected to take place over the coming 12 months to look at strengthening both Rungay's Bridge, over the Middle Level Main Drain in Marshland St James, and Loke Road Bridge, over the Gaywood River in King’s Lynn. There are plans to strengthen a third bridge over the River Thet at Bridham by 2025 and possibly a fourth bridge, depending on cost, over the Bure Valley Railway just outside Aylsham.

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ECC please take note and repair and strengthen Boxted bridge!