| Hammersmith Bridge 10:32 - Feb 25 with 2472 views | colinallcars |
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.
https://photos.app.goo.gl/NiyuUKN93njyhdad9 [Post edited 25 Feb 10:33]
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| Hammersmith Bridge on 15:53 - Feb 25 with 677 views | TheChef |
| Hammersmith Bridge on 15:36 - Feb 25 by colinallcars |
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 ? |
Watneys??
How old exactly are you?
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| Hammersmith Bridge on 16:03 - Feb 25 with 626 views | colinallcars |
| Hammersmith Bridge on 15:53 - Feb 25 by TheChef |
Watneys??
How old exactly are you?
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There used to be a joke - what have making love in a punt and Watneys beer got in common ?
They both f**king near water. | | | |
| Hammersmith Bridge on 16:34 - Feb 25 with 581 views | Boston |
| Hammersmith Bridge on 15:46 - Feb 25 by Lblock |
It's a plot by the lizard people who are the 1% that own 99% of everything.
Apologies.
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Sounds a bit Ickey to me. [Post edited 25 Feb 16:35]
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| Hammersmith Bridge on 16:44 - Feb 25 with 559 views | PunteR |
Where does all the money from ULEZ and Congestion charge go? Not to mention all the parking charges, penalty fines, and dare i say it, road tax?
They cant stop building in London, whose paying for all that? Surely all these multibillion pound companies that work in London should be massively taxed towards the maintaining of London's infrastructure? |  |
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| Hammersmith Bridge on 18:00 - Feb 25 with 468 views | Juzzie |
| Hammersmith Bridge on 16:44 - Feb 25 by PunteR |
Where does all the money from ULEZ and Congestion charge go? Not to mention all the parking charges, penalty fines, and dare i say it, road tax?
They cant stop building in London, whose paying for all that? Surely all these multibillion pound companies that work in London should be massively taxed towards the maintaining of London's infrastructure? |
kleptocracy |  | | |
| Hammersmith Bridge on 18:13 - Feb 25 with 426 views | nix |
| Hammersmith Bridge on 14:47 - Feb 25 by Northernr |
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...
https://www.the-londoner.co.uk/noise-complaints-killing-londons-pubs/
Just build the fcking bridge already. |
Bloody pisses me off. We've got a junior school near us. Been there forever. Small new estate built on abutting land. Since the new residents moved in they've bombarded the school with complaints about the noise of.... children playing. F*ckers. Also successfully ended the annual firework display which was a massive fundraiser and their best social event.
So many Brits see any change as inherently bad. Also we are constantly encouraged to froth by the media and SM. It makes any new projects impossible to build as there's always some group objecting. We had a piece of land near us that couldn't be used for kids' sports because of supposed badgers. I live nearby and have never seen a badger or the badger fur that mysteriously was discovered on site. |  | | |
| Hammersmith Bridge on 18:24 - Feb 25 with 412 views | Boston |
| Hammersmith Bridge on 15:53 - Feb 25 by TheChef |
Watneys??
How old exactly are you?
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Dunno, but when he goes, he insists on being buried in a cask et. | |
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| Hammersmith Bridge on 18:50 - Feb 25 with 382 views | kensalriser |
| Hammersmith Bridge on 16:44 - Feb 25 by PunteR |
Where does all the money from ULEZ and Congestion charge go? Not to mention all the parking charges, penalty fines, and dare i say it, road tax?
They cant stop building in London, whose paying for all that? Surely all these multibillion pound companies that work in London should be massively taxed towards the maintaining of London's infrastructure? |
All detailed in your council tax bill. Vehicle licence duty goes straight to the exchequer.
Google, Amazon, Meta etc all have lovely wheezes to reduce their tax liability to a fraction of what they should be and governments are too cowardly to stand up to them. |  |
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| Hammersmith Bridge on 19:10 - Feb 25 with 327 views | colinallcars |
| Hammersmith Bridge on 18:24 - Feb 25 by Boston |
Dunno, but when he goes, he insists on being buried in a cask et. |
Careful Boston, The Chef thinks you and I are one and the same…. | | | |
| Hammersmith Bridge on 19:16 - Feb 25 with 316 views | Boston |
| Hammersmith Bridge on 19:10 - Feb 25 by colinallcars |
Careful Boston, The Chef thinks you and I are one and the same…. |
Noted, Dad. | |
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| Hammersmith Bridge on 19:38 - Feb 25 with 294 views | stevec |
| Hammersmith Bridge on 18:50 - Feb 25 by kensalriser |
All detailed in your council tax bill. Vehicle licence duty goes straight to the exchequer.
Google, Amazon, Meta etc all have lovely wheezes to reduce their tax liability to a fraction of what they should be and governments are too cowardly to stand up to them. |
Seeing as they’re all registered in America, government would be barking at the moon if they think they can change that situation.
It’s mostly down to us punters, how about stop buying from these platforms and buy from British registered companies instead. I imagine you’re as guilty as the rest of us? |  | | |
| Hammersmith Bridge on 19:57 - Feb 25 with 249 views | kensalriser |
| Hammersmith Bridge on 19:38 - Feb 25 by stevec |
Seeing as they’re all registered in America, government would be barking at the moon if they think they can change that situation.
It’s mostly down to us punters, how about stop buying from these platforms and buy from British registered companies instead. I imagine you’re as guilty as the rest of us? |
Nonsense. Want to do business in the UK? Here's how much it's going to cost you. Don't like it? Don't do business in the UK.
I haven't used Amazon in ten years. But it's almost impossible for individual action to have any serious impact. That's the job of governments and they're not doing it. | |
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| Hammersmith Bridge on 19:58 - Feb 25 with 248 views | mart_Goblin |
Maybe we could incorporate a new bridge and stadium that straddles the river ?
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| Hammersmith Bridge on 20:04 - Feb 25 with 236 views | GaryHaddock |
| Hammersmith Bridge on 19:57 - Feb 25 by kensalriser |
Nonsense. Want to do business in the UK? Here's how much it's going to cost you. Don't like it? Don't do business in the UK.
I haven't used Amazon in ten years. But it's almost impossible for individual action to have any serious impact. That's the job of governments and they're not doing it. |
Sorry was supposed to upvote but my thumbs are too fat from all the Uber Eats I order.
Agree completely, and I also don’t buy the assertion that you aren’t allowed to criticise the things you (in most cases) are forced to use either through necessity, convenience, or economic situation. |  | | |
| Hammersmith Bridge on 20:22 - Feb 25 with 213 views | PunteR |
| Hammersmith Bridge on 18:00 - Feb 25 by Juzzie |
kleptocracy |
Had to look it up.
a society or system ruled by people who use their power to steal their country's resources:
Sounds about right
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| Hammersmith Bridge on 20:30 - Feb 25 with 193 views | Juzzie |
| Hammersmith Bridge on 20:22 - Feb 25 by PunteR |
Had to look it up.
a society or system ruled by people who use their power to steal their country's resources:
Sounds about right
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Yup.
Also see Russia, USA, most of Africa, in fact pretty much every country in the world. | | | |
| Hammersmith Bridge on 20:36 - Feb 25 with 179 views | CateLeBonR |
The one that gets me is the £5 billion Tideway tunnel super sewer thing. Is it open yet? There’s a few vague articles around on the internet saying it is “up and running” but in general very little is said about it. I’d have expected that they’d be making a bigger fuss about it. A bit of ribbon cutting by King Charles or something.
*Edit - Ok I just found a recent BBC article but again it seems quite vague.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvg875g71lvo [Post edited 25 Feb 20:45]
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| Hammersmith Bridge on 20:44 - Feb 25 with 156 views | KensalT |
| Hammersmith Bridge on 15:50 - Feb 25 by Northernr |
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. |
The Americans are way ahead of us for bridge failures:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_bridge_failures#2000%E2%80%93present | | | |
| Hammersmith Bridge on 20:50 - Feb 25 with 135 views | Lblock |
| Hammersmith Bridge on 15:50 - Feb 25 by Northernr |
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. |
Fair point.
I've just today completed a two day H&S refresher course that I have to do every five years.
When I last did it a load of big events were mentioned such as Zeebrugge, Hatfield etc.
Not one of those cases for the "big boys" resulted in a single conviction for corporate manslaughter.
Fast forward five years and.... guess what?
Not one since nor one on the horizon.
The Corporate Manslaughter Act came in 2007... a few small players have had their collar felt but nobody of any substance. Instead it's all about fines now linked to turnover.
Is that really going to stop the culture of cutting corners to pump the margin, have people think twice about not maintaining things or ensure safety is number one?
I hate to mention Grenfell but there's little to no chance of anyone doing time for that.
It'll be the same when the Westway collapses but 8 years after the event they'll say "lessons have been learnt" |  |
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