Editing Tees Transporter Bridge (section)

==Local culture==
[[File:Transporter Bridge, 2010 Teeside Running Day.jpg|thumb|2010 Teesside Running Day]]
Locally, the bridge is often referred to simply as 'the Transporter'. The bridge hosts an annual vintage bus running day, organised by The 500 Group.<ref>[http://www.500group.org.uk/ The 500 Group] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070403100213/http://www.500group.org.uk/|date=3 April 2007}}</ref> On this one day per year, usually a Sunday in April, vintage buses take people on free rides around [[Teesside]]. As part of the 2006 and 2007 events, the bridge made a special trip carrying a former Teesside Municipal Transport [[Daimler Fleetline]], the first time a [[double-decker bus]] had used the bridge in 30 years.<ref>{{cite web |date=27 April 2007 |title=Our annual Teesside Running Day |url=http://www.communigate.co.uk/ne/the500group/page3.phtml |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080124161126/http://www.communigate.co.uk/ne/the500group/page3.phtml |archive-date=24 January 2008 |access-date=19 January 2008}}</ref>

It has been featured in films and TV programmes including ''[[Boys from the Blackstuff]]'', ''[[Billy Elliot]]'', ''[[The Fast Show]]'', ''[[Spender]]'', ''[[Vera (TV series)|Vera]]'', and ''[[Steel River Blues]]''. During the [[millennium]] celebrations of 2000, [[firework]]s were fired from its length. The storyline of the third series of ''[[Auf Wiedersehen, Pet]]'' saw the bridge dismantled to be sold to and re-erected in the United States. The local council received calls from people worried that the bridge was really being pulled down,<ref>{{cite web |date=13 May 2002 |title=Bridge not under threat, pet |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/1985075.stm |access-date=20 January 2009 |work=BBC News |publisher=BBC}}</ref> with the BBC adding a disclaimer on the end of the final episode of the series stating that 'The Transporter Bridge is still in Middlesbrough'.