The Happy Pontist

You could be forgiven for thinking that somebody was trying to airbrush the ill-fated New Wear Crossing out of history. First, the pr...

Okay, while the dust slowly settles on this week's announcement that Sunderland's hubristic River Wear Crossing scheme has been canc...

I will hopefully have more to post about this at the weekend, but for now: Sunderland City Council scraps plan to build £118million bridge...

As a follow-on to the last post, I found some interesting commentary on the River Wear bridge at New Civil Engineer's website , posted b...

Tenders were due in for Sunderland's River Wear crossing on 22nd May, and presumably they have now been received. The tender date had be...

"When engineers get the knife out they can be worse than architects" . So says an editorial from Paul Finch in this week's Arc...

It seems that the NCE's news story featuring  Simon Bourne's criticism of Sunderland's River Wear crossing (see my last post ) ...

New Civil Engineer  magazine has this week found one bridge engineer willing to break cover and criticise Sunderland's River Wear Crossi...

It's been some time since I've done a roundup of bridge-related news, so there is quite a bit to cover this time ... Italy's b...

Regular readers will know that the design of a new landmark bridge across the River Wear in Sunderland has a been a topic I've returned ...

It's been a while since I've had any news to report on Sunderland's River Wear Bridge, the structurally ambitious competition-w...

A proposed "iconic" bridge in Sunderland, designed by Spence Associates and Techniker, is moving forwards, following a meeting of ...