Surtees Bridge

Surtees Bridge
Surtees Bridge over the River Tees
Coordinates	54°33′15.7″N 1°18′38.6″W / 54.554361°N 1.310722°W / 54.554361; -1.310722
Carries	A66 road
Crosses	River Tees
Locale	Borough of Stockton-on-Tees, England, United Kingdom
Official name	Surtees Bridge
Owner	National Highways
Preceded by	Jubilee Bridge
Followed by	Surtees Rail Bridge
Characteristics
Design	slab and girder
Material	Reinforced concrete and steel plate girder
Total length	150 metres (492 ft)
Longest span	50 metres (164 ft)
No. of spans	3
Piers in water	2
Design life	120 years
History
Designer	A1 Integrated Highway Services
Engineering design by	Halcrow Group
Constructed by	Edmund Nuttall
Fabrication by	Cleveland Bridge and Engineering Company
Construction start	20 March 2006
Construction end	22 January 2008
Opened	3 December 2007
Inaugurated	24 January 2008
Replaces	Surtees Bridge (1981)
Statistics
Daily traffic	55,000 vpd
Location

The Surtees Bridge is a road bridge carrying the A66(T) road east west across the River Tees near Thornaby-on-Tees in the borough of Stockton-on-Tees in the north east of England. The bridge is situated one kilometre upriver from Stockton town centre, just upriver of Surtees Rail Bridge – a rail bridge carrying the Tees Valley Line. Built at a cost of £14.3 million^[1][2][3] the bridge replaces an earlier Surtees Bridge (1981) that showed signs of distress resulting from excessive settlement.

The Surtees Bridge and the A1(M) motorway bridge are the busiest over the River Tees with 55,000 vehicles per day.^[1][4] The river level at this point is held at 2.7 mOD by the Tees Barrage which makes the river here permanently navigable.^[5][6]