Drivers are being urged to find alternative routes after a new £121m bridge broke down.
Remember when we lead the world in this sort of engineering? Come back, Isambard Kingdom Brunel, we need you!
Update:
Council bosses are pleading with people to stop crossing Great Yarmouth's broken bridge because they are hampering efforts to fix it.Mr Plant said: "Until the experts tell us what is wrong, we are in the dark."The experts being the ones who built the wretched thing? Good luck with that, then!
H/T:Dave Ward via email
Was it built by the same people that designed the 'two sails' bridge in Poole? That spent half its early life out of order
ReplyDeleteI don't know what it is like in other parts of the country but in Norfolk when you see a "Road Closed" sign you ignore it. You drive on until you are physically blocked. 90% of the time (my estimate) the road is not actually closed. Either they haven't started work, or they have finished, or it is actually still open for local traffic, or the actual closure is five miles beyond where you want to go. The 10% of the time you have to backtrack is well made up for by the 90% of the time you don't. The phrase "Cry wolf" springs to mind.
ReplyDeleteI note that they are complaining about pedestrians continuing to use the bridge, yet the initial photos only show signage about the road being closed. It is quite usual to allow continued usage by pedestrians when a road is closed. That they cannot even manage to fence of the bridge to make it clear rather sums up their expertise.
Why do I suspect that both the design team 'and' the supposed investigation/repair team were and are picked for their PC, woke and (non-white, non-male, non-competence, etc.) 'credentials'?
ReplyDelete[I'm really not a misogynist, but I struggle daily to find something, anything (from institutions, organisations, companies to trades and professions) that "modern women" haven't utterly ruined and destroyed in their desperate clamour to be faux-men.
I'm all for "equality" (just not the corrupt, parasitic equity women demand), but when you look at who is 'always' behind these examples. When you examine something like the coof response, where the level of over-reach and tyranny was predictable by ... how many women a country had in positions of power [fact]. Etc., it becomes patently obvious that in allowing the current matriarchy 'we' have doomed western civilisation to destruction.
"If women ruled the world, we'd still be living in caves" seems truer every day, and in letting women pretend to be competent we are apparently soon to be heading back to living in them again].
"Was it built by the same people that designed the 'two sails' bridge in Poole?"
ReplyDeleteIf that didn't work too well, then almost certainly! I'd imagine it's a small field.
"...in Norfolk when you see a "Road Closed" sign you ignore it. You drive on until you are physically blocked. 90% of the time (my estimate) the road is not actually closed."
I am glad I don't live in Norfolk then!
"Why do I suspect that both the design team 'and' the supposed investigation/repair team were and are picked for their PC, woke and (non-white, non-male, non-competence, etc.) 'credentials'?"
It seems every large project these days has to meet criteria that are nothing to do with the actual goal, so I suspect you're right.