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Favourite Bridges on 17:39 - Jul 18 by PeterHucker
I used to work in McCormack House (big ugly office building) right next to the Hogarth Roundabout. About once a month a car coming from the Chiswick Bridge side would approach the flyover too fast, hit the barriers and the whole thing would be closed for a few hours while it got sorted out causing massive tailbacks.
Don't know if its true but I remember being told that the flyover was just put there as a temporary measure in the first place but the roundabout is such a traffic blackspot that they've had to keep it. Looking out the window at it from my work I always thought it didn't look that solid considering the number of cars that go over it every day.
Yep, I used the flyerover when living in Petersham years ago and remember there'd quite often be tailbacks because of the problems you describe.
I don't like heights and driving over that flyover always gave me the heebie jeebies.
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Favourite Bridges on 17:57 - Jul 18 with 2826 views
That Stari bridge - utterly stunning. How do I get there?
Great thread.
We got the train down to Mostar from Sarajevo. It’s a lovely two hour journey that hugs the river. You probably only need a day/night in Mostar, but that bridge is worth the trek. Sarajevo is a great little stop for a few days. It’s 2-2.5 hours from Split or Dubrovnik by coach. If you like lamb and shopska salads, you can’t go wrong with BiH.
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Favourite Bridges on 18:04 - Jul 18 with 2802 views
Favourite Bridges on 17:39 - Jul 18 by PeterHucker
I used to work in McCormack House (big ugly office building) right next to the Hogarth Roundabout. About once a month a car coming from the Chiswick Bridge side would approach the flyover too fast, hit the barriers and the whole thing would be closed for a few hours while it got sorted out causing massive tailbacks.
Don't know if its true but I remember being told that the flyover was just put there as a temporary measure in the first place but the roundabout is such a traffic blackspot that they've had to keep it. Looking out the window at it from my work I always thought it didn't look that solid considering the number of cars that go over it every day.
Talking of Chiswick Bridge, if you come over it towards the Hogarth roundabout now, whatever you do, don’t try turning left.
Bastard Council have closed those roads bit by bit and thousands getting fined, particularly at Staveley Road, as the sign is mostly covered by tree branches. Done me and a mate at separate occasions, and if any of you have get an appeal in, virtually impossible to see sign if you’re in the correct lane. Neither of us have had a reply but I noticed they trimmed the most obscuring branches though some have grown back.
Ripping people off, particularly how they snivelling changed what most of us had got used to.
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Favourite Bridges on 18:34 - Jul 18 with 2756 views
I mustn't forget this one, a Genoese bridge near Asco in the mountains in Corsica. It's Mrs R from Afar's favourite. She sat on a rock for hours, reading her book with her feet dangling in the water, while I was taking in the views and tranquility. Divine.
"Things had started becoming increasingly desperate at Loftus Road but QPR have been handed a massive lifeline and the place has absolutely erupted. it's carnage. It's bedlam. It's 1-1."
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Favourite Bridges on 22:26 - Jul 18 with 2640 views
One grey Monday October morning in 2009 visiting my folks in Ireland looking out the window at the drizzle wondering what to do with the day the onset of ennui was interrupted by an over-excited voice on the local radio station with something along the lines of:
”Here it is. The day we’ve all been waiting for. In just over an hour the Thomas Francis Meagher Bridge will be officially opened by the Mayoress of Kilkenny. A brand new suspension bridge, three years in the making, crossing the River Suir connecting the counties of Waterford and Kilkenny. The bridge that many people are already calling the big cat-flap”
For some reason this had everyone in the room in stitches. But when the laughter subsided I said right get the engine running we’re going to see the opening of the big cat-flap. It was an hours drive away and we had no idea what the deal was, if it was just watching the mayoress far off in the distance cut a big ribbon or if we’d get to drive or walk across it. Actually I think my parents politely declined but an hour or so later there I was on the bridge with my sister, niece, a couple of cousins, assorted civic dignitaries, and many other bridge/ cat-flap enthusiasts. No traffic allowed on this special day so we parked up and proudly strolled across the Thomas Francis Meagher Bridge stamping it with our feet like monumental bridge connoisseurs saying things like, “Hm good bridge!” A little wet in the misty drizzle but happy. What a way to start the week.
Quite a looker
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Favourite Bridges on 01:11 - Jul 19 with 2573 views
Never seen in the same room together..... the Zakim or Bunker Hill Bridge, take your pick. Building directly behind is the Garden, home to both Boston's Bruin's and Celtic's.
Cobweb Bridge in Sheffield, suspended on steel cables secured to the underside of a viaduct, it doesn't really take you anywhere you'd want to go, but is quite cool
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Favourite Bridges on 12:53 - Jul 19 with 2346 views
Favourite Bridges on 11:43 - Jul 19 by SheffieldHoop
Cobweb Bridge in Sheffield, suspended on steel cables secured to the underside of a viaduct, it doesn't really take you anywhere you'd want to go, but is quite cool
Adams Plaza Bridge which is near the new Elizabeth Line station in Canary Wharf. Quite spectacular if you get there at the right time.
Always loved this one in my youth. My ex-girlfriend lived on the Barnes side and I'd meet my mates for a pub crawl on the Hammersmith side. This week it was wrapped in foil to protect it from the heatwave.
Always hated this one. With any luck it disintegrated in the heatwave:
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Favourite Bridges on 00:33 - Jul 20 with 2116 views
My local bridge, Daly's Bridge, known to one and all as d'Shakey Bridge (or to my kid niece as d'Wobbly Fridge) is a beautful pedestrian suspension bridge designed and built in England in 1927, not long after the South was freed.
Fair play to them for going back to get a good job done. Some locals still say it was designed in Cork, but I've seen two bridges on English TV programmes which were identical, one on the lovely Great Canal Journeys, so the design was a joint affair at best, and that's being charitable to Ireland.
More Charitable was the Daly who it was named after for a while until slang took over, who donated much of the cash to get the Norries to the Southside.
Recently refurbished, the local engineers ensured that it retained its distinctive shake, thus delighting all the tourists who come to jump up and down on it, this attracting the joy, confusion and wrath of excited dogs, crying kids and miserable oul' lads.
"The opposite of love, after all, is not hate, but indifference."
Favourite Bridges on 00:33 - Jul 20 by BrianMcCarthy
My local bridge, Daly's Bridge, known to one and all as d'Shakey Bridge (or to my kid niece as d'Wobbly Fridge) is a beautful pedestrian suspension bridge designed and built in England in 1927, not long after the South was freed.
Fair play to them for going back to get a good job done. Some locals still say it was designed in Cork, but I've seen two bridges on English TV programmes which were identical, one on the lovely Great Canal Journeys, so the design was a joint affair at best, and that's being charitable to Ireland.
More Charitable was the Daly who it was named after for a while until slang took over, who donated much of the cash to get the Norries to the Southside.
Recently refurbished, the local engineers ensured that it retained its distinctive shake, thus delighting all the tourists who come to jump up and down on it, this attracting the joy, confusion and wrath of excited dogs, crying kids and miserable oul' lads.
Very nice, Brian. Reminds me of Gaol Ferry Bridge in Bristol, which I cross most days, and which takes you from Southville onto Spike Island, and into town. About to close for nine months for some much needed restoration.
Just looked it up and it was designed by David Rowell & Co. of London - same as your Shakey Bridge - and opened in 1935. They designed another similar bridge a couple of miles away.
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Favourite Bridges on 07:47 - Jul 20 with 1981 views
Favourite Bridges on 00:33 - Jul 20 by BrianMcCarthy
My local bridge, Daly's Bridge, known to one and all as d'Shakey Bridge (or to my kid niece as d'Wobbly Fridge) is a beautful pedestrian suspension bridge designed and built in England in 1927, not long after the South was freed.
Fair play to them for going back to get a good job done. Some locals still say it was designed in Cork, but I've seen two bridges on English TV programmes which were identical, one on the lovely Great Canal Journeys, so the design was a joint affair at best, and that's being charitable to Ireland.
More Charitable was the Daly who it was named after for a while until slang took over, who donated much of the cash to get the Norries to the Southside.
Recently refurbished, the local engineers ensured that it retained its distinctive shake, thus delighting all the tourists who come to jump up and down on it, this attracting the joy, confusion and wrath of excited dogs, crying kids and miserable oul' lads.
hmmph. shaking ain't swinging!
I think that was used in a scene from "young offenders". It looks lovely, my favourite bridge could never be one clouded in car exhaust fumes.
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Favourite Bridges on 09:06 - Jul 20 with 1954 views
Favourite Bridges on 22:26 - Jul 18 by DannyPaddox
One grey Monday October morning in 2009 visiting my folks in Ireland looking out the window at the drizzle wondering what to do with the day the onset of ennui was interrupted by an over-excited voice on the local radio station with something along the lines of:
”Here it is. The day we’ve all been waiting for. In just over an hour the Thomas Francis Meagher Bridge will be officially opened by the Mayoress of Kilkenny. A brand new suspension bridge, three years in the making, crossing the River Suir connecting the counties of Waterford and Kilkenny. The bridge that many people are already calling the big cat-flap”
For some reason this had everyone in the room in stitches. But when the laughter subsided I said right get the engine running we’re going to see the opening of the big cat-flap. It was an hours drive away and we had no idea what the deal was, if it was just watching the mayoress far off in the distance cut a big ribbon or if we’d get to drive or walk across it. Actually I think my parents politely declined but an hour or so later there I was on the bridge with my sister, niece, a couple of cousins, assorted civic dignitaries, and many other bridge/ cat-flap enthusiasts. No traffic allowed on this special day so we parked up and proudly strolled across the Thomas Francis Meagher Bridge stamping it with our feet like monumental bridge connoisseurs saying things like, “Hm good bridge!” A little wet in the misty drizzle but happy. What a way to start the week.
Quite a looker
Looks fantastic but that is a cable-stayed bridge not a suspension bridge.
Very nice, Brian. Reminds me of Gaol Ferry Bridge in Bristol, which I cross most days, and which takes you from Southville onto Spike Island, and into town. About to close for nine months for some much needed restoration.
Just looked it up and it was designed by David Rowell & Co. of London - same as your Shakey Bridge - and opened in 1935. They designed another similar bridge a couple of miles away.
And we also have a Spike Island in Cork, Konk. We're like twins!
Our Spike Island was a Monastery, then a British fort, then a British jail and then - gloriously - an Irish jail until the tide went out too far one day and the inmates walked to freedom.
Beat that, Bristol!
"The opposite of love, after all, is not hate, but indifference."
Talking of Chiswick Bridge, if you come over it towards the Hogarth roundabout now, whatever you do, don’t try turning left.
Bastard Council have closed those roads bit by bit and thousands getting fined, particularly at Staveley Road, as the sign is mostly covered by tree branches. Done me and a mate at separate occasions, and if any of you have get an appeal in, virtually impossible to see sign if you’re in the correct lane. Neither of us have had a reply but I noticed they trimmed the most obscuring branches though some have grown back.
Ripping people off, particularly how they snivelling changed what most of us had got used to.
Thanks for the tip, stevec.
Coming up from the south and depending on Waze whether I take the M25/M4 or carry on up the 316. I'll have to try and remember to look out for that.
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