Hammersmith Bridge is open again

He replied pretty quickly:

Thank you for your creative suggestion. I think the
funding/programming issues will be sorted fairly soon but you are
right that the scale of the repairs will take years rather than months
(though I hope you are wrong about them only lasting a decade). I am
pursuing all these issues.

On the future use of the bridge I am just being honest that I think
we need it open to general traffic subject to whatever weight limit is
feasible/affordable.

But I agree we need to maximise the use during closure and I will ask
TfL and LBHF to make travel across – and links with public transport –
as flexible as possible. It may well be that the use over the next
1-2 years and monitoring of traffic displacement does influence future
loading and restrictions.