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Post by wizzardofdribble on Aug 25, 2019 20:36:56 GMT
Im pretty sure it was up for the festival - seem to remember going over it in the pit van before I could drive and looking into the festival site?! Definitely in the 80's. I was working in Summer Holidays whilst at Uni and remember the bridge slides being put in place. I finished Uni in 1988 so it would be around that time, possibly a year later for final completion. 1988. Two years after the garden festival on the old Shelton Steel site
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Post by dexta on Aug 26, 2019 6:12:16 GMT
What worked for Ogdenville and North Haverbrook, can work in S-O-T. Who would you say is the S-O-T version of Mr Burns Chaps? got to be John rudge
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Post by lawrieleslie on Aug 26, 2019 6:41:19 GMT
Just as bad down here in Plymouth. The swing foot bridge connecting Sutton Harbour to multi storey car park and National Marine Aquarium was closed because of a failed mechanical part. It took nearly 2 years for the council to get it fixed, in the meantime businesses suffered, people couldn’t visit both the Barbican and Aquarium and, to top it all, the council built a temporary bridge after pressure from all sides, 2 months before the bridge was repaired. It took them 2 days to install the temporary bridge.
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Post by RichieBarkerOut! on Aug 26, 2019 19:51:47 GMT
Well I've only gone and looked it up, and it was built in 1988.
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Post by Scrotnig on Aug 26, 2019 20:00:27 GMT
Don't be surprised if it never reopens.
The eventual statement would go something like this:
"The Etruria Flyover has now been closed for 18 months. Due to the costs involved in rectifying the defects, the council has decided that, in line with its Climate Change Emergency policy of discouraging car use, the flyover will be closed permanently. We are now inviting tendering for its demolition".
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Post by Cast no shadow on Aug 26, 2019 20:57:32 GMT
Had it affected traffic flow?
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Post by Northy on Aug 27, 2019 6:09:42 GMT
Just as bad down here in Plymouth. The swing foot bridge connecting Sutton Harbour to multi storey car park and National Marine Aquarium was closed because of a failed mechanical part. It took nearly 2 years for the council to get it fixed, in the meantime businesses suffered, people couldn’t visit both the Barbican and Aquarium and, to top it all, the council built a temporary bridge after pressure from all sides, 2 months before the bridge was repaired. It took them 2 days to install the temporary bridge. Good, im down there in a few weeks, not been since the lad graduated 3 years ago, hoping for a few beers around the barbican
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Post by DentySCFC on Aug 28, 2019 18:19:22 GMT
Had it affected traffic flow? It’s not that bad atm but will be manic when the kids go back school.
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