Sunflower wrote:It would be great if a way can be found to make more of a feature of it opening, it could be a great tourist draw...
Alex Glass wrote:... how would you get people to go to see the opening?
Been inspired to revive this thread because twice in the last couple of weeks I've been lucky and happened to arrive at the bridge just as it was starting to open for the Braehead boat.
Everyone in range stopped to watch, and seemed to be enjoying it, it's one of those fun things.
Obviously somebody knows when the bridge is going to open - the boat runs to a timetable, the tides are more or less predictable and anyway, the guys have to be there to open it - so how about a website with next planned opening times posted on it? There could be a notice with the address at the bridge, people with fancy phones could do a quick check and see if it was worth waiting around. Or a phoneline with a recorded message... Guess it would cost a bit to do, but it couldn't be that much. Could it?