Less than a week after Bath’s Cleveland Bridge reopened to two-way traffic – subject to a weight restriction – l was able to grab a chat with the B&NES cabinet member who has been overseeing the whole protracted and no-doubt expensive repair.
Cllr Manda Rigby had much to say about overruns – and who was going to have to pay – plus we talked about other bridges in Bath that might be at risk in the future, and – in a city of cellars – wasn’t Bath’s ancient infrastructure just too frail for today’s road traffic.
Let’s start with how she feels now we have a two-way flow across Cleveland Bridge again.
