This revealing video fly-through shows exactly how the mammoth task of de-constructing Liverpool's Churchill Way Flyovers will be done.
The overhead CGI film goes through the painstaking process that will see the flyovers taken apart in separate 25 metre chunks over a three month period.
The giant structures were shut to the public last year after engineers declared them unsafe - and a decision to take them down was approved by the city council.
Today it was revealed that a 'hyper-sensitive job' - devised to minimise disruption where possible and to not disturb antique art, cultural collections and wildlife houses in nearby galleries and museums - is set to cost nearly £7m and begin in earnest at the start of September.
And the video gives an idea of how organisations Amey Consulting, GRAHAM and their specialist constructors will use an innovative methodology to carry out the deconstruction to take place without having to implement a three month road closure on two major arterial roads servicing Liverpool city centre and the Birkenhead (Queensway) Tunnel.
But a job this size will still cause major issues for people wanting to get around the city centre over the next three months.
To enable this highly complex process, the site will require three work compounds which will be erected on Monday, 26 August.
You can find all the news about road closures here.
Mayor of Liverpool Joe Anderson said: “The Churchill Way flyovers are a relic of a cancelled highways plan from half a century ago and given the overwhelming weight of evidence from independent experts about their safety, their removal was the only viable option. We simply have no choice but to take them down as soon as possible.
“This deconstruction is going to be a complex process. It cannot be done overnight and a lot of thought has gone into the methodology to ensure the inconvenience to city centre traffic and surrounding buildings is kept to a minimum - but people need to understand that this is going to cause a huge amount of unavoidable disruption.
“Detailed designs for junction improvements are also a key element in making the area a better experience for everyone, post demolition, and we will be working hard to keep all of our city centre stakeholders and the public informed at every stage of the dismantling and how the new traffic proposals will look.”
