B3: Boris's Barmy Bridge

[Cuchilo]

The Royal Navy rammed Australia not too long ago

Doesn't surprise me as sailors do have a bad name and the ozzies are easy going blokes

 

[Tin Pot]

You want crazy? How about a bridge three times that length, over the sea that turns into tunnel halfway through! Now that would be...oh, wait:

Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau Bridge
http://m.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/ec...done-mega-hong-kong-zhuhai-macau-bridge?amp=1

Now that is crazy.

 

[BoldonLad]

You want crazy? How about a bridge three times that length, over the sea that turns into tunnel halfway through! Now that would be...oh, wait:

Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau Bridge
http://m.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/ec...done-mega-hong-kong-zhuhai-macau-bridge?amp=1

Key words in that link, IMHO, are: "But it has been plagued by budget overruns and construction delays.".

 

[Tin Pot]

Key words in that link, IMHO, are: "But it has been plagued by budget overruns and construction delays.".

Yebbut who cares. Eiffel Tower etc.

 

[lazybloke]

I think we've already got those?

I was thinking of when we needed more capacity.

 

[Cuchilo]

Yebbut who cares. Eiffel Tower etc.

That was once a nice council tower block but they got the cladding wrong .

 

[Tin Pot]

That was once a nice council tower block but they got the cladding wrong .

Similar story about a guy putting a wall at the end of his garden, got the scale wrong on the plans got a bit longer than expected, in China I believe.

 

[Tin Pot]

[QUOTE 5127928, member: 259"]Just the kind of thing we should be modelling our future mass transport infrastructure on. [/QUOTE]

Oh live a little, stop being so boring. Spunk some money up the wall building something a bit daft.

Let’s show the Egyptians how to do these properly. Built over Basingstoke. In beige.

 

[Tin Pot]

[QUOTE 5127933, member: 259"]Anyway, they'll have to build a massive duty free in the middle so the punters can load up on cigs and industrial French lager.[/QUOTE]

How about a booze pipeline? Cut out the bottling plants, pipe it straight over!

 

[Drago]

The Hanging Gardens of Croydon?

 

[Tin Pot]

The Hanging Gardens of Croydon?

A perfect nomination imho.

Cancel all NHS purchases of antibiotics and we can have a casino on site too.

Man, Britain could become a really fun place and with fewer old people too.

 

[Joey Shabadoo]

Oh live a little, stop being so boring. Spunk some money up the wall building something a bit daft.

Let’s show the Egyptians how to do these properly. Built over Basingstoke. In beige.

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Great Pyramids of Geezers?

 

[Drago]

The Great Wall of Edd China?

 

[Tin Pot]

Apparently we waste £750M on drugs “treating lifestyle choices”.

£750M could build a huge runway all the way down the Thames Valley. Or, even better one of those space ports:

And we get to see an old Queen song in the charts again as a consequence of the cuts (from the Telegraph article on the subject of you can believe it!)

 

[Drago]

I was about to suggest spending the lolly on more cycling infrastructure, but that spaceport does look enticing...