Tower Bridge is reopening to traffic at noon today — over a week ahead of schedule.
The news was announced in a tweet by Squarehighways, who have been overseeing the bridge's renovation works.
Not everyone greeted the news positively; a number of motorists are fuming (no pun intended) at the impending ban on rush hour traffic at Bank Junction from April 2017.
@Squarehighways lovely 😊 so when you close The city of London in April we'll all rejoice at a marvellous job your doing #bankjunction
— stephen (@sclats01) December 22, 2016
We went behind the scenes of Tower Bridge's renovation earlier in the year:
