Economic impact of existing and prospective weight restrictions on older bridges in England and Wales

Abstract

It is estimated that there are some 49,000 bridges throughout Great Britain which were not built to comply with national loading standards, introduced in 1922, or were built before the standards were introduced. Some of these bridges were assessed for their load‐carrying capacity in the early 1970s in a programme called ‘Operation Bridgeguard’. The Department of Transport is once more assessing older bridges in a three part programme to:

Citation

Street, A. (1988), "Economic impact of existing and prospective weight restrictions on older bridges in England and Wales", Structural Survey, Vol. 6 No. 1, pp. 29-33. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb006272