#1 New Wear Crossing

The new road bridge will be a two span cable-stayed bridge with an A-frame pylon rising to 105m (344ft) crossing the River Wear between Castletown on the north ...
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The new road bridge will be a two span cable-stayed bridge with an A-frame pylon rising to 105m (344ft) crossing the River Wear between Castletown on the north to Pallion on the south bank.

Twice the height of Nelson's Column, and bigger than Big Ben, Sunderland's new bridge will be hard to miss.

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