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Keel Crossing [opened 18.10.25] - compendium thread

Clearance below* the Queen Alexandra Bridge is 26m. Clearance below the new footbridge is 25m apparently.

*Clearance below is summat that's used on official shipping charts etc.


They are. Saw it when I was riding my bike over the QA bridge last week.

The cost of dredging the river was summat like £10m. It cost £3m or summat to do bit from Wearmouth Bridge to the piers for the tall ships.
Nautical nonsense is my speciality, on a chart the clearance is measured at Highest Astronomical Tide. Can be a heart stopping moment going under a bridge with small clearance hoping calcs are correct. Takes a lot of explaining that you need a new radar scanner.
 

great footage! y'know, for a city that has a reputation as being "post-industrial" it's actually really green and beautiful looking west along the riverside. It'll be fantastic down there once they sort out the park and get people making use of it again.

I'd love to see more active use of the river though, paddle boards, pedalos like they have in Prague, a ferry linking the marina to Washington etc. etc.

and for someone who doesn't live in the city anymore, can someone help me with what's going up now on the Vaux site... the 2 cores going up near to galley's gill bridge, is that the new eye hospital? and the 2 tall cranes next to that, eye hospital as well or something else?
The 2 purple cores are apartment buildings which have unfortunately stalled due to the builder going into liquidation. The tall cranes have been putting in rounds for the eye hospital.
 
The 2 purple cores are apartment buildings which have unfortunately stalled due to the builder going into liquidation. The tall cranes have been putting in rounds for the eye hospital.
Thanks mate, nothing better than seeing a load of cranes on the skyline! Further up the thread, someone's mentioned how well the city has actually timed all this developement. Good point, can you imagine if Tesco got the Vaux site and they'd built a massive housing estate on the Groves Cranes site!? The city would be dead.
 
The Hurley bridge. Player of the century, but also because you’ll feel a bit sick if you’ve had an extra pint and it’s windy up there. Plus if you use it you’ll make good time on your way to the match…
In all fairness would be a lovely touch
 
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