Future of the Transporter

atypical_boro said:
Must admit it doesn’t seem worth spending millions and millions keeping it in working order if not enough people use it, but preserving it as a landmark feels cheaper and worthwhile.
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On the other hand if you pay to fix it as a working bridge it brings in daily income. It was actually really well used. And would be again as there are a lot of working yards etc on both sides of the river at that point
The staff tell me the ferry car was very busy indeed throughout the working week
 
fmttmadmin said:
On the other hand if you pay to fix it as a working bridge it brings in daily income. It was actually really well used. And would be again as there are a lot of working yards etc on both sides of the river at that point
The staff tell me the ferry car was very busy indeed throughout the working week
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If it was washing it’s face commercially then fine, but it just doesn’t feel like the most practical of solutions in this day and age. I haven’t used it in years, but if the numbers were still good then fine.
 
It was given up on a long time ago. It'll be torn down as soon as the H&S get involved, and have to start cordoning the area off and it becomes a risk of collapse which sounds like now. A standard road bridge will be built in its place i imagine, using steel, the design/colour from the bridge to 'honour' the Transporter. Probably try to fashion the arches or whatever the side of a bridge (the design of it) into looking something like the Transporter but it'll never re-open as a car ferry now.
 
I reckon there's 200,000 people world wide who'd donate £50 a head to get it safe and to stay in situ, but not working
I'd presume you could build something much more useable/commercially viable elsewhere along the river for less than 60 million ?
 
I’m no civil engineer but could you not just leave the “big blue bit” there and build a “road bridge” underneath. So it’s still a bridge just not like it used to be?

Sorry for using technical terms.
 
atypical_boro said:
If it was washing it’s face commercially then fine, but it just doesn’t feel like the most practical of solutions in this day and age. I haven’t used it in years, but if the numbers were still good then fine.
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What I am saying is a working bridge gets a lot of financial support. Every road and rail bridge is funded. How many billions must the A19 flyover cost? The Transporter was still a very well used bridge for working people. You miight not have used it but it was still really busy and taking a lot of money.
If it becomes a tourist attraction how do you finance ir? You need masses of paying tourists. But it can be a working bridge as well as a working tourist attraction getting two streams of income.
People would be paying to drive on the ferry and people paying to go up the lifts and walk across.
But on the other hand the new gondola is heavy, so it might be a costly problem to a weakened structure.
 
atypical_boro said:
I’m no civil engineer but could you not just leave the “big blue bit” there and build a “road bridge” underneath. So it’s still a bridge just not like it used to be?

Sorry for using technical terms.
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I've been asking on here everytime it comes up why this has never been done but costs is the main reply i get. Drilling foundations etc in the middle of the Tees, closing it for however long wouldn't be viable but yeah im not sure why.
I think it's the 'big clue bit' thats at risk of falling down, why they dont take the towers down and leave the 'big blue horizontal bit' and stuck it at the side of a normal road bridge, i don't know but to me thats the best way to keep a route there and also keep the history of the thing.
 
fmttmadmin said:
What I am saying is a working bridge gets a lot of financial support. Every road and rail bridge is funded. How many billions must the A19 flyover cost? The Transporter was still a very well used bridge for working people. You miight not have used it but it was still really busy and taking a lot of money.
If it becomes a tourist attraction how do you finance ir? You need masses of paying tourists. But it can be a working bridge as well as a working tourist attraction getting two streams of income.
people paying to drive on the ferry, people paying to go up the lifts.
But on the other hand the new gondola is heavy, so it might be a costly problem to a weakened structure.
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a lot of money, wasn't it a quid each way? Hell of a lot of cars need to cross that to make a lot of money... It carries what about 12 cars at a time? £12 a crossing... If it was full for every trip it made 0900-1600 then it made about £1200 a day...
 
VestasBoro said:
It was given up on a long time ago. It'll be torn down as soon as the H&S get involved, and have to start cordoning the area off and it becomes a risk of collapse which sounds like now. A standard road bridge will be built in its place i imagine, using steel, the design/colour from the bridge to 'honour' the Transporter. Probably try to fashion the arches or whatever the side of a bridge (the design of it) into looking something like the Transporter but it'll never re-open as a car ferry now.
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New bridge to be funded by Houtchen's HS2 slush fund.
Contract to be awarded to C&M Civil Engineering (est. some time next year).
 
Iconic symbol of Teesside, surely has to be saved if it can be, even if it's no longer a functioning bridge.

It's not like the Dorman Long Tower, which you could have replaced with a pile of dog-**** smeared sandstone and not noticed the difference, it's one of the few man-made structures on Teesside that you see regular positive images of.

That and the the cliff tramway in Saltburn.
 
TeaCider said:
Iconic symbol of Teesside, surely has to be saved if it can be, even if it's no longer a functioning bridge.

It's not like the Dorman Long Tower, which you could have replaced with a pile of dog-**** smeared sandstone and not noticed the difference, it's one of the few man-made structures on Teesside that you see regular positive images of.

That and the the cliff tramway in Saltburn.
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Dorman Long Tower was hugely important structure. It had worldwide recognition and was revered by architects.. absolutely criminal the way that was demolished.

Pure vandalism. Maybe in year to come the people of Teesside will realise what they had and how they let it go without a whimper.
 
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