HISTORICAL FACTS: Troubled waters will hammersmith bridge ever reopen - The Untold Story

Emerge onto terra firma from Hammersmith Station and head towards what is often described by locals as a “baffling embarrassment”, where one of the oldest suspension bridges in the world still stands despite its many threats, over the years, to fall into the Thames. Back in 2019, after engineers conducting a safety assessment noticed micro-fractures in the cast iron pedestals holding the bridge together, the crossing was closed to motor vehicles. Since then, Hammersmith Bridge — a Grade II* listed, ornate green marvel made out of wood and wrought iron constructed 140 years ago — has become the site of a bureaucratic deadlock that has often been described as a “disgrace for London”. Locals complain about their experiences being ignored, dismissed or weaponised in the interest of political point-scoring.

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