Leipzig and Markleberg are renewing their request for a tunnel to exchange the bridge in Agra, which needs to be demolished because of critical injury. Town of Leipzig introduced that the development of the bridge will at once have an effect on the aforementioned Agra Park, during which the bridge passes. “We are missing a big opportunity if we repeat the mistake of the 1970s and cut Agra Park again,” mentioned Mayor Burkhard Jung (SPD).
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“The fact that the tunnel option has been planned with little emphasis by the Free State in recent years is now paying off. You are now under time pressure.”
Kraushaar: It’s not that i am liable for the tunnel
Infrastructure Minister Regina Kraushaar (CDU) spoke out in opposition to the tunnel answer on Monday. She mentioned it was once no longer accountable in its place for the bridge. The sort of challenge is technically complicated and will last as long as two decades.
In step with Kraushar, a alternative bridge is the one answer that may be carried out briefly, is legally possible, financed and cheap for the area. The State Workplace of Highway Building and Transportation was once tasked with in an instant beginning making plans for this.
Critical injury to the prestressing metal
The Agra bridge south of Leipzig needs to be demolished because of important defects. Present investigations have proven critical injury to the bridge’s prestressing metal, Saxony’s infrastructure ministry mentioned on Monday. “The originally assumed lifespan of ten years is no longer remotely sustainable,” Kraushaar mentioned.
So as to relieve the construction and make sure site visitors protection, from Thursday (November 20) simplest cars as much as 3.5 heaps will be capable to pass the bridge. Vehicles would additionally must force extra slowly than ahead of to cut back drive at the bridge.
Hennigsdorfer metal as Carolabrucke
The situation of the development, which was once constructed between 1970 and 1976, has been debated for a few years. Because of the so-called Hennigsdorf prestressing metal, which was once extensively utilized within the collapsed Karola Bridge in Dresden, the Agra Bridge is considered one of 19 bridges in Saxony beneath particular statement.
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