Edinburgh Bridges #03 : Leith St Bridge

Not all of Edinburgh's bridges are old, this one is new (well 2003 is pretty new in terms of architecture) it replaced a mediocre box section pedestrian bridge that was built in the 1970's that was initially designed to service the planned development on Greenside and would have included a large BBC office with a sound and vision studio complex, but this was binned when the original Scottish devolution referendum foundered on the 40% rule in 1978. The bridge ended up as link between the St James shopping centre and the underground car park.

The new bridge (costed in 2003 at £1.8 million) and Blipped here actually serves the same function as the previous one, though initially the investment in the bridge was to service a housing estate built on the side of Calton Hill, another development that never came to fruition.
The new bridge is 50m long and weighs 90tons and is constructed using hollow sections of steel and if these were straightened out they would stretch nearly a mile long.