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Edinburgh Park and Ride Gets a Lift

Edinburgh's park-and-ride will get a well-needed boost this week. Harthill will see Britain's largest crane used to lift and deposit a 230-tonne footbridge between junction 4 and 5 of the M8 today, 3 October 2008.

It's taken a week and 45 vehicles just to put the crane itself together. But actually moving the bridge is planned to take just a few hours, between 1900 today and 0600 tomorrow (Saturday) to install the bridge if all goes to plan.

The new bridge will look great. The puzzling part of this is that its situated just a few metres from the existing bridge which ahs joined the 2 service stations for the past 40 years. The answer is that at the end of October this section of the M8 will be closed again, so that the older staructure can be dismantled.

Ainslie McLaughlin, head of major transport infrastructure projects at Transport Scotland, said it was a much-needed replacement.

"It is time we got a modern, high-amenity structure to help encourage people out of their cars and encourage the use of Harthill as an important park and ride interchange."

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