Crumbling flyover to be repaired

URGENT repairs are to be carried out on a flyover in Hull after the Government agreed to provide most of the funding.

The Department for Transport will pay nearly £600,000 in the current financial year and £1.2m in the next towards the estimated £2.6m cost of the scheme on Anlaby Road flyover.

A report seeking cabinet authority to begin the procurement process warns that failure to secure external funding could have led to 10 years of delays and disruptions because the council could only afford to carry out the work “piecemeal”.

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The flyover on the A1105 is nearly 50 years old and has suffered “severe ingress” from road salts because of the poor condition of the concrete, leaving the steel reinforcements exposed.

The flyover, a dual carriageway, carries traffic over the main passenger railway line into the city, and the report says that “concrete falling from the bridge could impact on both road and rail users” if no action is taken.