WORK has started on a £500,000 scheme that will see two steel footbridges in East Durham "recycled''.
Durham County Council is demolishing the Clara Street Bridge, in New Strangford Road, and Queen Alexandra Road Bridge, both in Seaham, because they are sub-standard.
They will be replaced with pedestrian underpasses and steel footbridges at both sites.
The one that runs alongside the Queen Alexandra bridge is in two sections.
One piece will be installed at a site in Wolsingham, Weardale, where a footway has been washed away by heavy flooding, and a site is being found for the other section.
The Clara Street footbridge has been taken down and will be installed over the River Gaunless, at Bishop Auckland, which also suffered during the recent heavy rain
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