Demolition of former Grove Cranes facility clears way for £100 million river crossing.
Sunderland council leader Paul Watson took to the controls of an excavator as work got underway on the city’s new £100 million bridge.
The clearance of the former site of Grove Cranes, which closed its doors in 1998, heralds the start of the New Wear Crossing project.
The new bridge, scheduled to open in 2018, will cross the river between Wessington Way in Castletown and European Way in Pallion.
The project, part of a wider strategic transport plan, will help to regenerate the area, relieve congestion and attract new jobs and investment to Sunderland.
Demolition specialists will spend the next few weeks dismantling old buildings on the southern side of the river to make way for the new road network that will lead to the bridge
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