Works Slijpebrug Middelkerke: make a detour at the end, but the bridge will get better

The Slijpebrug is an important connection for those coming from the E40 and wanting to enter Middelkerke. Now traffic will have to make a long detour via Gistel or Nieuwpoort.

Short pick up time

Contractors will, among other things, renew the railings and the asphalt layer of the bridge. And they also make the bridge faster.

“What is very important to us is to drastically reduce the bridge’s retrieval time. It would be about a hundred seconds faster than currently planned.

When we see what traffic has to cross the bridge here and with the increasing yacht traffic and the increase in freight traffic that is being reintroduced, it is certainly not fun to drive into Middelkerke and the repair of the bridge is highly necessary,” says Dirk De Poortere, Alderman for Mobility in Middelkerke.