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Re: Clyde Bridges

PostPosted: Tue Jan 15, 2008 12:31 am
by gap74
Clyde Arc closed by cable 'snap'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/gla ... 188577.stm

Oh dear....

Re: Clyde Bridges

PostPosted: Tue Jan 15, 2008 12:39 am
by Lucky Poet
It's iconic, it's radical, it's got a bit of a problem :? :

"Clyde Arc closed by cable 'snap'"
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/gla ... 188577.stm

<edit> Damn damn damn, beaten to it!

Re: Clyde Bridges

PostPosted: Tue Jan 15, 2008 12:50 am
by gap74
He-he, only by minutes, mind, only by minutes...

Is this end of town jinxed? Will the Clyde Arc become another Science Centre Tower....?

The complete failure of a critical structural component such as this is not something I'd imagine can be dismissed with a quick fix.

Re: Clyde Bridges

PostPosted: Tue Jan 15, 2008 1:01 am
by Lucky Poet
Hardly a quick fix indeed... I guess they'll have to replace all of them. What happened? £20.8 million and they bought the cables from Lidl?

Re: Clyde Bridges

PostPosted: Tue Jan 15, 2008 1:10 am
by gap74
Be interesting to see if it was really the cable which snapped, or the anchorage point at one end of it.

Either way, I can see it being shut for months now...

Squinty Bridge Closed

PostPosted: Tue Jan 15, 2008 7:19 am
by Minted Stereo

Re: Squinty Bridge Closed

PostPosted: Tue Jan 15, 2008 7:28 am
by conn75
Was it built by the same people who made the Science Centre Tower?

::):

Re: Clyde Bridges

PostPosted: Tue Jan 15, 2008 11:18 am
by conn75
This is a joke. No point building all these fancy new things along the Clyde and nothing works right.

I expect if they build this biodome the jaguars will get out in the first week.

Re: Clyde Bridges

PostPosted: Tue Jan 15, 2008 11:28 am
by gap74
It is possibly reflective of something, given that it comes the same week that some of the Glasgow Harbour flats lost part of their cladding in strong but far from unheard of winds....

Re: Clyde Bridges

PostPosted: Tue Jan 15, 2008 11:33 am
by Fossil
Lucky Poet wrote:Hardly a quick fix indeed... I guess they'll have to replace all of them. What happened? £20.8 million and they bought the cables from Lidl?


I heard that Lego has be informed

Re: Clyde Bridges

PostPosted: Tue Jan 15, 2008 11:35 am
by conn75
I don't think any bridge that's built can blame high winds for ripping a part off it. They need to be built to withstand anything like that. There are bridges standing for decades that would hold up in a tornado.

Probably :D

Re: Clyde Bridges

PostPosted: Tue Jan 15, 2008 12:22 pm
by MotoMad
That will be that shut for about 3 year noo!

Re: Clyde Bridges

PostPosted: Tue Jan 15, 2008 1:21 pm
by conn75
When does the new one open? Before then?

:D

Re: Clyde Bridges

PostPosted: Tue Jan 15, 2008 1:33 pm
by conn75
Mebbes the fireworks did it:

Image

::):

Re: Clyde Bridges

PostPosted: Tue Jan 15, 2008 6:34 pm
by Socceroo
Source of the problem found. This group of bouncers were clocked on the bridge before it failed .....

tobester wrote:Image