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We've had a few chats about the disgraceful long term closure of the lovely bridge and I've found one proposal. It's only showing here as a link but will open when I click. Can anyone show it ? I've tried Imgur but no good.
Surely it would have been easier to knock down the existing bridge and build a new one.
The Ukrainians knocked down a bridge when they thought the Russians were coming end of 2022, they’ve built a new one inside two years and that’s with rockets flying all around them.
This country is so shit at doing anything now it’s actually frightening.
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Hammersmith Bridge on 11:06 - Feb 25 with 1665 views
I get the need to keep historic things like buildings & bridges going for as long as possible but this has been so detrimental for so long.
It's a lovely bridge but it's way, way, way beyond what it's intended to do.... getting people across the river.
That proposal is awful. As said, knock it down and rebuild it, in the same design too IMO. There are 'historic' buildings in Dresden that were flattened by the Allies and rebuilt, I doubt anyone bats an eyelid that they are only 70 years old, not a couple of hundred.
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Hammersmith Bridge on 11:07 - Feb 25 with 1663 views
Also on Hammersmith, there's a new pub on King Street called the Hammersmith Belle. Anyone been in ? I've been in prison - no, not really, I've been away visiting relatives.
Surely it would have been easier to knock down the existing bridge and build a new one.
The Ukrainians knocked down a bridge when they thought the Russians were coming end of 2022, they’ve built a new one inside two years and that’s with rockets flying all around them.
This country is so shit at doing anything now it’s actually frightening.
The Government only pays a third of the costs for repairing Hammersmith Bridge. The rest falls on TFL and Hammersmith & Fulham Council. Neither of those is exactly flush. Probably why it's taking so long
Surely it would have been easier to knock down the existing bridge and build a new one.
The Ukrainians knocked down a bridge when they thought the Russians were coming end of 2022, they’ve built a new one inside two years and that’s with rockets flying all around them.
This country is so shit at doing anything now it’s actually frightening.
No...... it would've been easier to actually maintain it and strengthen it when needed as a gradual process.
Instead, over countless decades, numerous different parties being responsible and upkeep budgets being flipped and flopped to different sectors we are left with this disaster as ZERO was done for years.
Watch this space for the same thing "sort of" happening with the A4 flyover and the M4 elevated section closely followed by the Westway. The A4 flyover already has serious issues caused by continued water ingress into the subterrain heating that was never used. The M4 flyover is a nightmare waiting to happen with "concrete spalling" getting worse every season. The Westway had all it's lamps removed years back due to corrosion causing ONE to fly across the carriageway in high winds (coz that's a better solution than maintianing and repairing what's there of course!)
The infrastructure that made this country is being slowly corroded away and replaced with bloody cycle lanes.
Cherish and enjoy life.... this ain't no dress rehearsal
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Hammersmith Bridge on 12:45 - Feb 25 with 1244 views
It’s monstrous. One of my most trodden parts of London is up and down the Thames path from Hammersmith to either Putney or Barnes depending on how the mood takes me. After one such walk this weekend I met some pals in the Blue Anchor. Few finer places to be. I don’t want this riparian public house idyll turned into a quasi-motorway service station, buses and cars whizzing past me in some kind of lashed-up Heath Robinson fun-fair affair.
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Hammersmith Bridge on 12:52 - Feb 25 with 1217 views
No...... it would've been easier to actually maintain it and strengthen it when needed as a gradual process.
Instead, over countless decades, numerous different parties being responsible and upkeep budgets being flipped and flopped to different sectors we are left with this disaster as ZERO was done for years.
Watch this space for the same thing "sort of" happening with the A4 flyover and the M4 elevated section closely followed by the Westway. The A4 flyover already has serious issues caused by continued water ingress into the subterrain heating that was never used. The M4 flyover is a nightmare waiting to happen with "concrete spalling" getting worse every season. The Westway had all it's lamps removed years back due to corrosion causing ONE to fly across the carriageway in high winds (coz that's a better solution than maintianing and repairing what's there of course!)
The infrastructure that made this country is being slowly corroded away and replaced with bloody cycle lanes.
Bow to your superior knowledge, you’re absolutely right, my Dad never drove below 70mph over the westway, now it’s a 30mph limit to stop it shaking itself to the floor.
Quite how successive governments have been allowed to view our infrastructure at such a low level of importance is a scandal.
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Hammersmith Bridge on 13:49 - Feb 25 with 1086 views
Passing over LBlock's farcical blaming of cyclists, the real problem is decades of government cost cutting, failure to invest in infrastructure and kleptocratic funnelling of wealth to the super rich.
I use the A4 Hammersmith flyover and Westway every time I go to work and back. If both those close that would probably add 50+% to my journey time using an alternative route and I'm on a motorbike. Any cars, vans, lorries, coaches etc will be fked.
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Hammersmith Bridge on 14:15 - Feb 25 with 1003 views
Hammersmith Bridge on 11:42 - Feb 25 by colinallcars
Also on Hammersmith, there's a new pub on King Street called the Hammersmith Belle. Anyone been in ? I've been in prison - no, not really, I've been away visiting relatives.
Absolutely hideous place, loads of over the top flowery decor. Doesn't look like a pub at all. Steer clear. Used to be The Hampshire Hog, which I never really got on with either. You're a stones throw from The Salutation which was a great Fullers pub and is now a (very good) Thai Restaurant in disguise.
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Hammersmith Bridge on 14:47 - Feb 25 with 910 views
Hammersmith Bridge on 13:49 - Feb 25 by kensalriser
Broken Britain.
Passing over LBlock's farcical blaming of cyclists, the real problem is decades of government cost cutting, failure to invest in infrastructure and kleptocratic funnelling of wealth to the super rich.
And also the way our planning laws have developed and now function.
HS2 is obviously king and queen of this but...
The Lower Thames Tunnel is more than a decade old as a proposal, no spade in the ground. The planning document now runs to 359,000 pages and 2,383 separate documents. National Highways has spent £237m on it already, and we haven't started digging yet.
The Bakerloo Line extension should have just been done and finished years ago. Crossrail Two north to south likewise.
We should have high speed rail across this country, as it is we can't even get round to electrifying the railway we've got. You've got diesel trains running under wires. You've got electric trains having to stop and pull their pantograpph down to do diesel for bits of the same journey. We've had to pay extra for heavier, less efficient trains so they can run duel mode.
It's nuts.
Look at this map of London Pubs closed or facing draconian licensing conditions because of complaints from residents who moved in next to a pub then complained there was a pub there...
Hammersmith Bridge on 13:49 - Feb 25 by kensalriser
Broken Britain.
Passing over LBlock's farcical blaming of cyclists, the real problem is decades of government cost cutting, failure to invest in infrastructure and kleptocratic funnelling of wealth to the super rich.
'Splutter', wealthy people are affected by bridges and flyover closures too y'know, not all of us have helicopters!
Hammersmith Bridge on 13:49 - Feb 25 by kensalriser
Broken Britain.
Passing over LBlock's farcical blaming of cyclists, the real problem is decades of government cost cutting, failure to invest in infrastructure and kleptocratic funnelling of wealth to the super rich.
Anyone might think it was some form of managed decline?
And also the way our planning laws have developed and now function.
HS2 is obviously king and queen of this but...
The Lower Thames Tunnel is more than a decade old as a proposal, no spade in the ground. The planning document now runs to 359,000 pages and 2,383 separate documents. National Highways has spent £237m on it already, and we haven't started digging yet.
The Bakerloo Line extension should have just been done and finished years ago. Crossrail Two north to south likewise.
We should have high speed rail across this country, as it is we can't even get round to electrifying the railway we've got. You've got diesel trains running under wires. You've got electric trains having to stop and pull their pantograpph down to do diesel for bits of the same journey. We've had to pay extra for heavier, less efficient trains so they can run duel mode.
It's nuts.
Look at this map of London Pubs closed or facing draconian licensing conditions because of complaints from residents who moved in next to a pub then complained there was a pub there...
Absolutely hideous place, loads of over the top flowery decor. Doesn't look like a pub at all. Steer clear. Used to be The Hampshire Hog, which I never really got on with either. You're a stones throw from The Salutation which was a great Fullers pub and is now a (very good) Thai Restaurant in disguise.
I think the HH is the only pub in Hammersmith I've not been to. It was Watney's beer, so a no-no, then a sort of cafe/restaurant. Does the Belle have cask Ale ?
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Hammersmith Bridge on 15:46 - Feb 25 with 687 views
Hammersmith Bridge on 13:49 - Feb 25 by kensalriser
Broken Britain.
Passing over LBlock's farcical blaming of cyclists, the real problem is decades of government cost cutting, failure to invest in infrastructure and kleptocratic funnelling of wealth to the super rich.
It's a plot by the lizard people who are the 1% that own 99% of everything.
Apologies.
Sue Perb
Cherish and enjoy life.... this ain't no dress rehearsal
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Hammersmith Bridge on 15:48 - Feb 25 with 684 views
Not to worry. If any motorway or bridge collapse results in innocent deaths, we will be able to have a public inquiry 10 years later costing £350 million, and those responsible who have long since retired on their £5m a year pensions will be told to say sorry.
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Hammersmith Bridge on 15:50 - Feb 25 with 680 views
Not to worry. If any motorway or bridge collapse results in innocent deaths, we will be able to have a public inquiry 10 years later costing £350 million, and those responsible who have long since retired on their £5m a year pensions will be told to say sorry.
It feels like there's something like that coming. Like the late 90s when you had Hatfield, Potters Bar, Ladbroke Grove and Southall all at once on the railways. Feels like something similar is coming in aviation in the States.
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