A second road closure for the York Station Gateway project took place a week after the first, and the old Queen Street Bridge was finally largely demolished. I know this collage looks rather chaotic, but that was actually how it appeared when watching the work.
The top left shot shows the beginning of the demolition, while the rest of the shots on the left show the bridge arches cleared.
The top right shot shows machinery at work within a bridge arch. The middle right shot shows the view through the city walls from within the walled city towards the railway station. This might well be a good photo location when the work is completed. The bottom right shot shows the bridge approach closest the station being cleared.
The bridge approach furthest from the station was left in place, since it runs very close to the city walls (seen in top right shot) and some piling work is needed before that can be cleared, to minimise the risk of the city walls collapsing. There are a lot of sensors monitoring the walls for any sign of movement in the walls. So far none has been recorded.
The work done has cleared a good area for the rest of the clearance work to proceed without further road closures, and will allow the start on building the new road.
Gosh that is a big job going on there! It will be interesting to see it when completed.
Our city is pretty much like this too at the moment with HS2 works going on.
Thank you all for your lovely comments and favs, they are very much appreciated.
Despite the rather chaotic looking scenes, the workers have made a lot of progress during the two weekends of road closures, and the area they have cleared allows them to continue their work while the temporary road carries traffic safely past. Further closures shouldn't be needed until late in the project when the permenant new road is linked to the existing network.
They will get much closer to the walls before the work is finished! Hopefully the walls will stay in place. There is quite a network of sensors monitoring the walls for movement, and I'm sure there will be a severe penalty clause if the workmen bring down the walls!
Our city is pretty much like this too at the moment with HS2 works going on.
Thank you all for your lovely comments and favs, they are very much appreciated.
Despite the rather chaotic looking scenes, the workers have made a lot of progress during the two weekends of road closures, and the area they have cleared allows them to continue their work while the temporary road carries traffic safely past. Further closures shouldn't be needed until late in the project when the permenant new road is linked to the existing network.
Ian
They will get much closer to the walls before the work is finished! Hopefully the walls will stay in place. There is quite a network of sensors monitoring the walls for movement, and I'm sure there will be a severe penalty clause if the workmen bring down the walls!
Ian
Thank you - it all looks quite chaotic, but it seems to be going smoothly ang good progress has been made.
Ian