Media City Footbridge
The Media City Footbridge is a swing-mechanism footbridge over the Manchester Ship Canal near MediaCityUK. It is an asymmetric cable-stayed swing bridge.
It was designed by Gifford and Wilkinson Eyre.
The bridge links MediaCityUK with Trafford Wharf. It weighs 450 tonnes, and has two spans of. It swings through 71 degrees to give a navigation channel. The deck of the bridge is an orthotropic steel box. The bridge is supported by eight tapered steel fanned masts. It was built by Balfour Beatty, with the steel fabrication by Rowecord Engineering of Newport, South Wales.
The swing mechanism is built on a reinforced concrete caisson foundation of diameter. Above the water it is in diameter.
