High Bridge too narrow

THE High Bridge at Woodseaves Cutting on the Shropshire Union Canal is too narrow to take heavy vehicles that are now using it as a 'rat run' complain locals.

Campaigners who are fighting to get lorries banned from the bridge tell that lorries 'regularly hurtle' over the bridge and footpaths as the road is too narrow for them, Alan Tilbury reports.

Jump out of the way

 

Andrea Martin and Leigh Banks, who are heading the campaign complain that residents of Woodseaves often  have to jump out of the way, but this is not reported as no one has been injured.

But there are concerns that some one will be, and so they want British Waterways, responsible for the bridge, to impose a weight limit.

MPs support

However, weight limits are the responsibility of the government, but MP Bill Cash is supporting the campaigners in getting a limit put on the bridge.

It is claimed by the campaigners that the High Bridge is carrying 150,000 lorries a year, but they admit the Victorians built well and the bridge will stand the weight, but the parapets would not, and would 'plunge into the crowds below'.[!]