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Date: 2004-12-16 04:00 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] bellinghman.livejournal.com
Yep. The pictures on the BBC site (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_pictures/4095037.stm) are stunning.

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Date: 2004-12-16 04:18 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] juggzy.livejournal.com
It's fantastic, but, but for some reason, probably the bridge being a result of anglo-french cooperation, when I saw Chirac on the TV last night, being all french and opening the bridge, I kept thinking of the Monty Python sketch about concorde, and giggling.

Bridge Meat!

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Date: 2004-12-16 04:44 am (UTC)
lnr: Halloween 2023 (Default)
From: [personal profile] lnr
I love the little faq here - complete with question on whether drivers are likely to suffer vertigo when crossing the bridge. (Apparently unlikely to be a problem - there are horizontal panoramic views but at no point do you look straight down into the valley).

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Date: 2004-12-16 05:10 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kjaneway.livejournal.com
The footage I saw of this on the news made me nauseous.

I can't even begin to imagine actually using it.

I'm not fond of bridges at the best of times, but that one just scares me witless.

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Date: 2004-12-16 08:05 am (UTC)
ext_3375: Banded Tussock (Default)
From: [identity profile] hairyears.livejournal.com
At times I wonder why I gave up Civil Engineering. Sigh.

The two I built (well, bits of) on the M40 are a bit smaller.

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Date: 2004-12-16 08:28 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] gareth-rees.livejournal.com
Looks amazing, doesn't it? Like the Dartford Crossing but four times as high!

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Date: 2004-12-16 09:39 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] tienelle.livejournal.com
Whoa. And possibly dude. Though I can't quite convince myself that it shouldn't pull itself apart.

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Date: 2004-12-16 12:48 pm (UTC)
sparrowsion: tree sparrow (tree sparrow)
From: [personal profile] sparrowsion
It's enough of an effort getting myself across the Dartford Crossing—I'm not going anywhere near that one. (Well, anywhere near the road deck. The valley looks lovely.)

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Date: 2004-12-16 12:58 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mhk.livejournal.com
We were on holiday in that area a couple of years back and I can testify to the traffic queues going down into Millau to cross the plain. I can vaguely remember that there was some sort of copnstruction work going on. Being me I remember better that it was from Millau that I bought a necklace consisting of a small leather boot on a chain!

I love big bridges and hope I will get to see this one and go on it sometime.

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Date: 2004-12-16 03:30 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] nassus.livejournal.com
Oooh I have a curious urge to ride my bike across it now...

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