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investigated and it did not result in a prosecution. Concerns have also been raised by local residents about vehicles disobeying the red light signals and motorcyclists and cyclists illegally using the footway. There is a call for camera enforcement on the bridge, though the council claims it is not allowed to erect it at this location.
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must first construct a bridge, though one developer has been allowed to construct 400 houses on the site in advance. Discussions with developers which included revised proposals for the works were made in
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The bridge is subject to repeated complaints about violations of the weight limit and damage caused by vehicles which are too wide to cross the bridge turning around in private driveways. There were 123 complaints about breaches of the weight limit in 2017, although only one of these incidents was
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The first bridge on the site was built in 1834 by the Walton-on-Trent Bridge
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A bypass of the village which would include a new two-directional crossing of the Trent was first proposed in 2012. If such a scheme were to proceed the existing bridge would be restricted to use by pedestrians only.
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the company derived an income from the collection of a toll on travellers. Previous crossings had to be made by a ford just upstream of the bridge site or by ferry. The toll was eventually abolished and the
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which was placed on top of the old bridge later that year. The bridge was replaced again in 1974 by a more modern version of the Bailey design, though still intended as a temporary structure.
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