"Leith Walk itself has been transformed from a pretty grim road to one that is liveable with wide footpaths and zebra crossings.
The roadway itself is 24 feet wide, and 8 feet wide footpaths are cantilevered on either side of the bridge, giving the bridge a total width of 40 feet.
The total width of the bridge is 35 m, with 3 lanes in each direction and a 1.2 m-wide footpath on each side.
This particular patch of northeastern Congo is so cut off from the rest of the country — there is no electricity, no cellphones and no roads, save 18-inch-wide footpaths barely passable by motorbike — that only now, more than three months later, is the scale of the massacre becoming clear.
But their houses, especially in the southernmost section, are quite tiny, and many of the streets that wind between them are not much wider than footpaths.
The folly of the exercise is quickly realised down the route as the gorge becomes little wider than a footpath.
We sheer away down a broad grassy footpath.
It is 23 feet wide, and includes a footpath on both sides of the navigation channel.
Originally wide, with a 3.5 feet footpath, the bridge was widened by 3 m, with two additional piles installed at each pier.
Victoria Bridge was 703 feet long with a central span of 333 feet, and the roadway was 32 feet wide with a 7 feet footpath on either side, making a total width of 47 feet.
Footpaths 8 feet wide on either side of the bridge were formed by concrete cast in situ and cantilevered out from the adjacent beams.
