It is a little after 2:15 a.m. this Wednesday morning, and the concrete block is delicately placed on the platform of the 35-meter truck, before being transported to a sorting center in Montsoult to be cut up and recycled.
The two cranes of 250 and 350 tonnes assembled for the occasion handle the end of the bridge weighing more than 80 tonnes, in impressive silence.
Precision work and a crucial step for a major project which aims to demolish the pedestrian bridge spanning the A15.
If traffic can be restored less than three hours later, a page in the history of Sannois has been turned.
The footbridge built at the time of the creation of the highway, in the early 1970s, and whose objective was in particular to allow residents of the upper part of the city (including the Bel-Air district) to reach the schools and the center -city on foot, is indeed part of the landscape.
Even though it had been closed since 2014, for security reasons.
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