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@Oliver Schick
We seem to be hitting a regular groove of Hammersmith Bridge stories again. This one's a belter:
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/hammersmith-bridge-shut-to-traffic-until-2027-ferry-crossing-a4573392.html
Translated, this announcement means that for all of Shapps' silly posturing, there isn't enough funding to do the job more quickly, and that this is a result of at least a decade of complete neglect by the Government of the issue. This is the sort of issue that local authorities are powerless to take on and that TfL certainly can't take on, having been plunged into a funding crisis. Needless to say, the previous Mayor of London did bugger all about it, even though he was a wee bit closer to the Government of the time than the current Mayor.