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The Millennium Bridge, built to a competition-winning design by Whitby Bird and Partners, was opened on 10 April 2001, having cost £ 4. 2m to build.

It spans the River Ouse to the south of York, linking Hospital Fields Road and Maple Grove in Fulford with Butcher Terrace on the South Bank.

The bridge carries a cycle path and a footpath, and is not open to vehicular traffic.

It is a key link in the Sustrans National Cycle Routes 65 / 66 and will be part of the orbital route for York completed in 2011.

The bridge shortened the walk or cycle for students from houses in the South Bank to the University of York ( they previously had to travel via Skeldergate Bridge ).