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Consultation on a ban on e-bikes and e-scooters as well as 'reckless' cycling from a spot just west of Hammersmith Bridge eastwards to Imperial Wharf along the river:
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Good to see that work is taking place.
Inevitably, the steel had to be imported ...
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After the temporary truss is installed, the existing bridge will be cut into sections, lowered onto a barge and taken to a factory for refurbishment.
“You can take it apart and you can then do restoration works,” David Mackenzie, Senior Technical Director at Cowi UK, explained.
“If we find any defects, which we may well do, then those defects can be repaired in a factory setting.”
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Survey on the above..
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Another 'Hammersmith' Bridge will be open to walkers and cyclists pushing their cycles
Closed to drivers for 10 weeks
https://www.lbhf.gov.uk/articles/news/2023/05/closure-wandsworth-bridge-and-alternative-routes-fulham?dm_i=BGN,8ASG7,1LO53J,Y4VFG,1 -
Can everyone please be more careful around the bridge? Ta very much.
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/west-ham-hammersmith-bridge-boat-video-crash-b1126283.html
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they went way past Craven Cottage
Well, yeah, that's usually the plan.
They're usually private chartered boat trips that collect the fans somewhere down river (Festival Pier, etc) and go up the river a bit and back and aim to drop off at Putney Pier an hour or so before kick-off which gives the fans time to disembark and wobble along to the ground (which takes about 20 minutes to walk from Putney Pier).
How far they can go up river depends on the tides obviously. Looks like the pilot should have known they shouldn't be trying to go under the bridge with the tide that high (the tide tables show high tide at Putney Bridge was at 12.04pm on Sunday, and the game kicked off at 2pm).
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It's just such a fiasco ...
Fleur Anderson, the Labour MP for Putney, said the fifth anniversary of the bridge’s closure in April would be “a very unhappy birthday”.
She said: “The frustration is that if the Government had said ‘this is a national transport route and a major London artery, we have got to fix it’ when it was first closed, the bill would have been far, far less and it would be open by now.
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^ Boast post. :)
On the boat crash:
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Oh look, someone's playing silly politics again. That'll speed things up!
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It may seem counter-intuitive, but in the long run it's much better to have low-capacity historic links like Hammersmith Bridge take the political pressure off road-building. The problem is that when motor traffic capacity on the old, existing network is reduced significantly, there will inevitably be projects of increasing it in other ways. Look at the cities planning to 'remove' motor traffic from their surface area and to replace it with motorways in tunnels, e.g. Hamburg and, indeed, London--see the Roads Task Force Report on pp. 168-75 here:
https://tfl.gov.uk/cdn/static/cms/documents/rtf-report-chapter-3.pdf
(There are other sections where this is discussed.)
In case you think this is pie-in-the-sky and won't be realised, quite a lot of it has already happened all over Europe. The general effect is a massive increase in the need to travel and ever-increasing economic over-centralisation. It may all look pretty, being embedded in such reports in a lot of bullshit about sustainable modes and better urban quality of living, etc., but what really drives it is *still* motor traffic increase.
I personally wouldn't mind if Hammersmith Bridge became buses, Blue Badge driving, cycling, and walking only, but it would definitely, as wildwest says, lead to extra capacity elsewhere. I doubt it would be a parallel bridge here, but someone would think of something. I know it sounds strange, but with the disaster of the Silvertown Tunnel being built, we can see that such strategic defeats are not far away at all.
Oh well. At the moment, of course, it looks as if nothing's going to happen for a while yet ... utterly ridiculous.
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Conservative MP says Labour council which has been deliberately starved of cash has failed to repair bridge (in project the government refused to fund so their mayoral candidate could take credit if he won) and should hand it over to TfL, which the government has deliberately starved of cash...
Hammersmith bridge has never had a deck suitable for modern motor traffic, by which I mean the tank-sized SUVs that are now ubiquitous. You could feel the road surface flexing if you were cycling across at the same time as one.
Unfortunately buses aren't any lighter, and when there were bus gates they were continually vandalized anyway.
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