Hammersmith Bridge closed to motor vehicles "indefinitely"

[farmerbarleymow]

Still standing then? Every time this thread pops up I wonder if it's finally collapsed into the river.

 

[hash tag]

Not yet, but not looking good.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Not yet, but not looking good.

I wonder how big a splash it would make if it fell into the river?

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

I wonder how big a splash it would make if it fell into the river?

Depends, high or low tide.

 

[TopCat]

I’m going for a job to do with this ferry. I can’t say much more but it could be fun!

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Bridge still standing then?

 

[TopCat]

Bridge still standing then?

But soon with a shiny ferry.

 

[skyscraper101]

Funding split now actually agreed. 3-way between H&F, TFL and HMG.

Hammersmith Bridge ‘set to reopen’ as Govt proposes cost-sharing deal

A cost-sharing deal to get Hammersmith bridge reopened has been set out by Grant Shapps.

www.standard.co.uk

 

[TopCat]

The bridge looks decrepit at the moment. Weeds growing all over the place. No works going on bar temperature controls on the chain pillars.

However the shiny ferry is coming.

 

[Pickman's model]

The bridge looks decrepit at the moment. Weeds growing all over the place. No works going on bar temperature controls on the chain pillars.

However the shiny ferry is coming.

It's coming home!

Is it called Brian ferry?

 

[farmerbarleymow]

The bridge looks decrepit at the moment.

Sounds promising. Any sign of imminent collapse?

 

[Elpenor]

It's coming home!

Is it called Brian ferry?

Ferry McFerryface

 

[T & P]

Sounds promising. Any sign of imminent collapse?

That was my first thought. TFL secretly hoping it'll collapse on its own?

They should try to reach out those behind the repeated fires that destroyed West Pier in Brighton. Those boys had some skills when it comes to wrecking structures over water...

 

[TopCat]

Sounds promising. Any sign of imminent collapse?

Well the cracks on the north east pedestal are all covered up with shuttering. The engineers reports on the western pedestals have not yet been released. I will be kayaking nearby on Sunday but will be keeping well clear of the bridge.

 

[TopCat]

That was my first thought. TFL secretly hoping it'll collapse on its own?

They should try to reach out those behind the repeated fires that destroyed West Pier in Brighton. Those boys had some skills when it comes to wrecking structures over water...

TfL are committed to getting appropriate repairs done ASAP.

 

[TopCat]

It's coming home!

Is it called Brian ferry?

No.

 

[TopCat]

 

[Teaboy]

The North bank walkway looks longer than the actual ferry crossing. Why not just extend the walkway a few more yards?

 

[TopCat]

The North bank walkway looks longer than the actual ferry crossing. Why not just extend the walkway a few more yards?

There appears to be a competition for the daftest solution to the bridge being tired.

As well as the above (limits river navigation), we have had suggested:
A tunnel under the river linking with the bypass.
Amphibious vehicles like the duck boats.
Bailey bridges
Kill all the rich and throw them in the river until you can walk across their bloated bodies.

 

[T & P]

I think the zip line idea is by far the best, and the only one that should be considered. You can even send bicycles behind their owner, for cyclists wanting to cross.

 

[TopCat]

Just clip wheelchair users to the zip wire and off you go?

 

[TopCat]

Maybe an emirates airline cable car? No mentalist sorry concerned stakeholder has suggested that yet.

 

[Pickman's model]

There appears to be a competition for the daftest solution to the bridge being tired.

As well as the above (limits river navigation), we have had suggested:
A tunnel under the river linking with the bypass.
Amphibious vehicles like the duck boats.
Bailey bridges
Kill all the rich and throw them in the river until you can walk across their bloated bodies.

have a team of superannuated actors reprise the role of the walmington on sea home guard and maintain a pontoon bridge across the river while other actors try to sabotage them like in the film version of dad's army

 

[TopCat]

have a team of superannuated actors reprise the role of the walmington on sea home guard and maintain a pontoon bridge across the river while other actors try to sabotage them like in the film version of dad's army

Will you come to a public meeting and utter the above when it gets to the point where everyone shouts at each other?

 

[farmerbarleymow]

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That looks expensive - just buy lots of cheap plastic pedalos and people can power themselves across the river. There shouldn't be too many who get swept downstream into the North Sea.

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

Get Sadiq on the phone right now!

 

[Pickman's model]

Will you come to a public meeting and utter the above when it gets to the point where everyone shouts at each other?

i will not only utter it, i shall shout it over the din

 

[Dogsauce]

Trebuchet, specially designed so that if your car weighs much more than a ton it doesn’t quite reach the other side. Eventually the Cayenne causeway will become an attraction in itself.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Trebuchet, specially designed so that if your car weighs much more than a ton it doesn’t quite reach the other side. Eventually the Cayenne causeway will become an attraction in itself.

Entertainment for all the family.

 

[Brainaddict]

Will them getting a ferry sorted at Hammersmith help them get a much more needed ferry sorted at Rotherhithe I wonder? Ferries have been promised and every month they don't arrive I'm having to take the Greenwich tunnel route which is terrible for bikes.