GLASGOW'S Squinty Bridge is to reopen tomorrow night.

GLASGOW'S Squinty Bridge is to reopen tomorrow night.

The £20million bridge, officially named the Clyde Arc, was closed in January after one of its four ton 115ft steel supporting ties broke free and crashed on to the carriageway.

Workers were forced to replace all 28 connectors on the structure.

It was supposed to take only a few weeks, but a closer inspection by Kilsyth-based construction firm Edward Nuttall found a crack in a second of the 14 supports.

The major faults came to light just 15 months after the bridge opened.

Cranes and barges were used to weld reinforced steel to the bridge to take the weight of the road over the river before engineers could repair the connection.

The Clyde Arc links Finnieston to Govan and was the first road bridge to be built over the Clyde for more than three decades.

But by the time work began in 2005 construction costs had risen from the original estimate of £8m to £20.3m. It opened in September 2006.

The bridge will reopen at 9pm tomorrow and councillor Ruth Simpson, executive member for land and environmental services, said: "The Clyde Arc has proved extremely popular with the people of Glasgow and I am pleased we can give them back their bridge.

"It has been disappointing to be without it in recent months, but public safety is our priority and time and caution has been necessary."