A bridge too far in Dresden

Jul 5 2008 by Peter Barrow, Huddersfield Daily Examiner

Germany: The UNESCO World Heritage Committee has decided to retain Dresden’s status as a World Heritage Site for now with the hope that work on a bridge will be stopped. In 2006, UNESCO warned that the planned 2,085-foot-long bridge would mar the skyline and landscape of the eastern German city. The World Heritage Committee now says that if construction is not stopped and damage reversed, the property will be deleted from the World Heritage List in 2009.