Video: demolishing a 5500 tonne motorway bridge…

Y'see - the Highways Agency can pull its finger out if it really, really tries; it managed to tear down a 5500-tonne bridge over the M1 in just 36 hours.

Between Friday January 6 and Sunday January 8, the HA used 12 excavators to demolish the 85-metre-long Catthorpe Viaduct. Until mid-December it had carried M6 southbound traffic over the M1.

You can watch the two-minute time-lapse video of WANTON BRIDGE DESTRUCTION below.

Now, Highways Agency, if you could turn your attention to the Hammersmith flyover we'd be much obliged...

Now watch Jeremy, James and Richard smash up some equally large stuff...