farmerbarleymow
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Every time this thread pops up I expect to hear the bridge has finally done the decent thing and collapsed into the river.
Hammersmith Bridge closed to motor vehicles "indefinitely"
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skyscraper101
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TBH, I wish they would just demolish it and start again. I don't see why they can't just build a proper one for the 21st century they could flog the old one off to America like London Bridge.
TopCat
Putin fanboy
Grade 2 listed.
skyscraper101
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I know. Seems crazy though they can't find a middle way through this. I'd prefer they built a new one and mocked up the original look around it. Using original features if they must.
It'd be no different in reality to gutting a Grade 2 listed building while preserving the exterior features.
platinumsage
HaveMyPassword123
Just because a building is listed doesn't mean it can't be demolished, it just means written consent of the local planning authority is needed beforehand.
skyscraper101
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Here's an interesting proposal for a temporary pedestrian crossing. A floating bridge with a "recycled waiting room" in the middle. Wild.
www.newcivilengineer.com
Hammersmith Bridge | Floating bridge and navigable pontoon mooted for ferry service | New Civil Engineer
The Manser Practice first suggested running a ferry shuttle service at the site when the bridge was first shut to motorised traffic last year. It has now
www.newcivilengineer.com
farmerbarleymow
I'm Petee's spirit animal
Pity its not the type of structure that would catch fire easily.
T & P
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Neither was West Pier in Brighton and that didn't prevent it from catching fire ''mysteriously'' and repeatedly until it was no more.
Saul Goodman
It's all good, man
Advertise a 'Jump for Trump' party on Facebook, and get thousands of mask dodgers to gather on the bridge and jump up and down to celebrate Trump's recovery from the fake virus.
TopCat
Putin fanboy
London's bridges 'are the capital's embarrassment'
Hammersmith, Vauxhall and London Bridge have all been shut lately for repairs.
www.bbc.co.uk
London's bridges 'are the capital's embarrassment'
Hammersmith, Vauxhall and London Bridge have all been shut lately for repairs.www.bbc.co.uk
I feel like it would be a better idea to maintain our existing bridges and tunnels rather than build new ones such as the Silvertown Tunnel.
Just been reading that...policing Hammersmith Bridge on the river is costing £120 per hour
Does it need policing?
Presumably if not some people would try and use it and it might not end well for them or what's left of the bridge.
skyscraper101
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Just been reading that...policing Hammersmith Bridge on the river is costing £120 per hour
Does it need policing?
"guard boats" says the article and quotes £2.7m a year as the cost to stop people trying to go under the bridge. Sounds like a right swiz if you ask me.
I had need to use Putney Bridge last night. I've not been round that way since Hammersmith Bridge closed. It was 9pm on a very wet Tuesday night during a pandemic. The traffic was really busy and it took an age to cross. Probably would have been quicker to drive up to Chiswick Bridge.
The roads were largely deserted virtually everywhere else.
The roads were largely deserted virtually everywhere else.
skyscraper101
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It's been a bottleneck forever, but certainly since Hammersmith Bridge closed it's been even worse. I used to get the bus back from central London sometimes, and it was the worst point of congestion often backing up well back into Fulham Palace Rd/New Kings Rd.
farmerbarleymow
I'm Petee's spirit animal
Just put mines in the river - they won't try to go under the bridge twice. Might make the bridge collapse too which would put an end to its misery.
T & P
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With any luck there might be unexplored WWII bombs nearby on the river bed that need defusing, like the one in Poland today...
WW2 bomb explodes during attempt to defuse it
The RAF dropped the "earthquake" bomb in a raid in 1945 which sank the German cruiser Lützow.
www.bbc.co.uk
DJWrongspeed
radio eros
All this talk of demolition doesn't wash with me. It's a Bazalgette bridge, one of London's finest architects, and should be repaired and made ready for the future.
skyscraper101
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Or how about rebuild the bridge to 21st century standards, and then mock up the original look around it? Everyone wins.
Bahnhof Strasse
Met up with Hannah Courtoy a week next Tuesday
skyscraper101
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Well, yes. But Grade 2 listed etc etc.
Bahnhof Strasse
Met up with Hannah Courtoy a week next Tuesday
Neatly highlights the stupidity in listing transport infrastructure.
farmerbarleymow
I'm Petee's spirit animal
Obviously not that good an architect given the thing is falling apart.All this talk of demolition doesn't wash with me. It's a Bazalgette bridge, one of London's finest architects, and should be repaired and made ready for the future.
skyscraper101
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Yo it was built in the 1880s when people were still riding around on Penny Farthings. Notwithstanding that cars weren't even a thing back then, the fact it's lasted over 130 years regardless, survived two IRA bomb attempts and a Real IRA bomb, is pretty impressive.
If only the beards could just get it together with a final push, they could render the whole rebuild v restoration argument dead in the water, so to speak.
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DJWrongspeed
radio eros
The dome of the Hagia Sofia fell in but they didn't knock the church down they "built back better" as BJ likes to say.
History is littered with great buildings that needed propping up after a while.
, for other threads, there is still some solid, beautiful, listed Victorian engineering around.
krtek a houby
Anger is Hi-NRG
All this talk of demolition doesn't wash with me. It's a Bazalgette bridge, one of London's finest architects, and should be repaired and made ready for the future.
And it starred in Minder
farmerbarleymow
I'm Petee's spirit animal
Knock the damn thing down and build a basic functional concrete bridge to save money. Just because it's old doesn't mean it is worth spending tons of cash to save.
