Council chiefs have said they are ‘working to encourage’ the contractors repairing a bridge across the River Avon to reopen it ‘as soon as possible’, after they completed the first stage of what could be months more work.
There is still no fixed date for when the Gaol Ferry Bridge, which connects Wapping Wharf on Spike Island with Coronation Road in Southville, will be reopened. Bristol City Council has said they are still working to a schedule which will see the bridge closed for ‘six to nine months’.
It was closed in late August and work finally got underway after a delayed start in September last year, but it looks very unlikely the bridge will be finished and reopen in six months - in February - and may well not reopen in the nine months deadline, which would be in April.
