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Postby GlasWeb » Mon Sep 18, 2006 10:45 am

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Postby escotregen » Mon Sep 18, 2006 10:53 am

This is a wind-up right, or just plain innacurate reporting :? I mean calling the bridge 'ARCHIE' after the architect? Does this kind of thing still get done? There's something here I'm not getting maybe?
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Postby Pgcc93 » Mon Sep 18, 2006 10:57 am

It's Squinty Bridge and that's the end of the matter for christ's sakes ::):
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Postby viceroy » Mon Sep 18, 2006 11:29 am

It can't be anything other than a wind up. Archie Trave [architrave]?? I don't think so somehow!! ::):
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Postby Mori » Mon Sep 18, 2006 11:34 am

Went for a wee stroll on the bridge this morn. lets see how long it can stay grafiti free. :)

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Postby viceroy » Mon Sep 18, 2006 11:39 am

The Clyde Arc? I think that's even worse than Archie :o
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Postby Pripyat » Mon Sep 18, 2006 11:41 am

L Arc De Glesga ::):
"The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led." - Edgar Allan Poe
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Postby Simba » Mon Sep 18, 2006 2:34 pm

escotregen wrote:The engineers and architects are unhappy with the name 'Squinty Bridge' because they say "it's derogatory"... so that's it decided then - it's Squinty Bridge ::):

http://http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/70225.html

A nice public relations turn from the organisers at yesterdays Open Doors access to the bridge; everyone was given a certificate giving the date and verifying that they had been on the bridge before it’s ‘official’ opening – nice wee momento especially for many of the kids who were there.

Kind of ‘ordinary folks’ detailing that Glasgow does often get right on the events scene.


FIT!!! I never got one on Saturday, I am unimpressed.
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Postby motman » Mon Sep 18, 2006 4:20 pm

Name decided by committee then :roll:
Wonder how many Govanites were on it, also how many BBC or SMG people had an influence. :twisted:
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Postby JayKay » Mon Sep 18, 2006 5:40 pm

motman wrote:Name decided by committee then :roll:
Wonder how many Govanites were on it, also how many BBC or SMG people had an influence. :twisted:


If SMG had an influence it would have been called the Taggart Bridge.
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Postby McShad » Mon Sep 18, 2006 5:47 pm

It's the Finnieston Bridge... always has been, always will be... Clyde Arc is just a stupid name... its a bridge END OF


Ehhh... QUESTION

Why is there bus lanes when there is no bus service using the bridge?
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Postby Simba » Mon Sep 18, 2006 6:44 pm

Because there probably will be shortly? Just a guess like.

I've been calling it the Finnieston Bridge, seems like the sensible name. Taggart bridge would have been good though. ;)
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Postby Fossil » Mon Sep 18, 2006 7:26 pm

Great views from the bridge
one from yesterday
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Postby Sharon » Mon Sep 18, 2006 8:25 pm

Yup, I refer to it and think of it as the Finnieston Bridge too. I like names that tell it like it is, no fuss, you'd know where to find it if someone told you to go over the finnieston bridge.
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Postby viceroy » Mon Sep 18, 2006 9:13 pm

Did anybody also notice the big Private Property signs debarring access to the riverside walkway from the bridge all the way to Springfield Quay?
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