Middlesbrough's Transporter Bridge could be retired from carrying traffic.
The 109-year-old bridge was closed last summer and hasn’t been reopened after stretched cables on the gondola were uncovered alongside other defects.
Plans for its future will be discussed by Middlesbrough Council on 22 December.
The executive will be asked to approve an extra £655,000 for urgent repair work and a consultation will be launched with two options - to open it as a visitor attraction or to open it to traffic at rush hours.
Executive papers show it would cost £4m over 10 years to open the bridge purely as a visitor attraction.
The full cost of reopening the bridge to traffic at rush hour could come to more than £7m in the next decade.
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Middlesbrough's Transporter Bridge could be retired from carrying traffic.
The 109-year-old bridge was closed last summer and hasn’t been reopened after stretched cables on the gondola were uncovered alongside other defects.
Plans for its future will be discussed by Middlesbrough Council on 22 December.
The executive will be asked to approve an extra £655,000 for urgent repair work and a consultation will be launched with two options - to open it as a visitor attraction or to open it to traffic at rush hours.
Executive papers show it would cost £4m over 10 years to open the bridge purely as a visitor attraction.
The full cost of reopening the bridge to traffic at rush hour could come to more than £7m in the next decade.
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