Hope Bridge closed from October to overhaul 1 year
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- Published: Thursday, 19 July 2012 09:39
Source 2012-7-19 8:37:29 modern gold was quoted at
Upstream will take temporary west side of the temporary bridge bridge built drugstores Street underground passage
Bridge of Hope will usher in yet another overhaul
October this year, the Bridge of Hope overhaul - this is the news reporter learned yesterday from Ningbo City Authority.
Hope Bridge was built in 1936, the design life of 70 years, has been extended active duty for nearly six years. Well-weathered it, and how the injury? How to fix it?
The reporter learned that the overhaul will be totally enclosed construction of 12 temporary temporary bridge and take in the upstream.
□ correspondent Yong-Jun Liu Wang Jiejin reporter photography Ying Zhang Peijian
Injury report
The main structure, such as deformation or disease
Bridge of Hope is the landmark of Ningbo, is a provincial cultural relics protection. As a result of war trauma and erosion, coupled with the extended overload operation and frequent boat crash, the spiritual structure of the bridge safety performance is in serious decline. It can be said that the Bridge of Hope is an old tired Cross.
On November 7 last year, the Bridge of Hope is a Shangyu Ji piling ship severely hit by the "waist", it is so weather-beaten "strong bridge" longer patients suffer.
Urban management and municipal departments invited Bridges to do specialized testing, Chinese Academy of Engineering, Sandra congruent authoritative Bridges were demonstrated on the test report.
The medical report said: lingqiao no major ailments, but there are many "injuries". The main structure of the spiritual bridge arch bridge arch feet, stringers, beams, and part of the boom there are different degrees of deformation or diseases.
In addition, the spiritual bridge stiffener cracking, sealing off the road asphalt cracking and other minor ailments. Bridges said: "We also found that the ultrasonic flaw detection, most lingqiao boom defects, but has not evolved to crack."
The most serious is that the experts found that some destruction of the bridge there are many places after the ship hit. According to reports, the high-powered digital camera, then cross in the position of the beam can be captured, there were already severely deformed.
Experts believe that the spiritual bridge the current security situation there are certain risks, it is recommended that the immediate use of temporary security measures and the reinforcement and repair as soon as possible. Experts suggest that the introduction of more stringent limit line should be the Bridge of Hope, high limit, the load limit of measures, when necessary, even the bridge closure.
Therefore, since January 20 this year, Ningbo has introduced measures to prohibit motor vehicles and motor vehicle over 2.6 meters in height of all yellow cards in the spirit bridge passage, a small car based upon the odd and even numbers limit line traffic, the implementation of the 17 bus lines section diversions.
Maintenance program
Overhaul, from upstream to take temporary temporary bridge October
For to eliminate lingqiao security risks, ensure the safety of the bridge running lingqiao overhaul project has received project approval of the Municipal Development and Reform Commission.
The scope of the east, Jiangdong North Road, Bridge of Hope overhaul, Ha Street, west to the river - Lingqiao, including Ling Bridge, the main access on both sides of the road slope and sidewalk maintenance access slope pavement of the bridge west side of the new medicine Street underground channel one, and the erection of temporary temporary bridge and other upstream near the main bridge during the maintenance period.
Is expected to start in October this year, will build a separate steel bridge as the construction of temporary bridge, bear the function of the use of the spiritual bridge. When the temporary bridge opened for maintenance.
Repair old as totally enclosed construction of 12
The reporter learned that the core of the maintenance program can be summarized as eight words - in situ maintenance, repair old as. The entire overhaul projects span is expected to reach 12 months.
Maintenance will Rib, boom, deck bridge in the main repair and reinforcement, will install the monitoring and control devices, crash facilities, urban lighting, and other ancillary facilities. At the same time, the new medicine Street underground passage a.
This program is the formation of the experts, government thematic sessions and extensively solicit the views of the community.
Ningbo City staff: after the overhaul, the Bridge of Hope will substantially increase the structural safety performance, and effectively extend the service life to further enhance the traffic capacity. In particular should be noted that repairing the old, old repairs, and save the maximum degree of historical and cultural value of the Bridge of Hope, to retain the heritage property.
● Important to Remember
Passing ships carefully before
Groups identified, in addition to the crater, and severe corrosion, the Bridge of Hope "injuries from the crash. According to urban management and municipal departments of statistics, since 2008, the Bridge of Hope boat hit six times in 2008, a total of three times, in 2010 there was a 2011 twice.
"Bridge of Hope repeatedly knocked the main reason is that in addition to crew safety consciousness, an emergency can not be promptly made to correctly handle the outside, the other point is the spirit bridge built earlier compared to other bridge, the water level and bridge the gap between lower, and therefore need more crew to accurately determine. "Municipal Administration Department expert explained.
Therefore, we also remind the passing ships, when passing through the Bridge of Hope, please be careful, careful.
● experts have suggested that
And best lingqiao into a pedestrian bridge
"Now, the spirit around the bridge has been made since a lot of cross-river bridge, but no matter how the minds of the Bridge of Hope in Ningbo, is always in first place." Haishu District Cultural Relics Bureau of unhistorical member Liwen Guo said lingqiao a history of the city. In his view, the protection of the Bridge of Hope should intensify measures, the best spiritual bridge into a pedestrian bridge, vehicle access is prohibited. "Taking into account the Bridge of Hope is now in a traffic hub, the relevant departments should consider the site to build a new spiritual bridge to ease traffic pressure.
Hold the same view, there is unhistorical expert Yang city. He said: should increase protection measures on the Bridge of Hope, best change lingqiao to the pedestrian bridge, vehicle access is prohibited, in order to ease the pressure of the Bridge of Hope.
