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Well That's His N C B Up The Pictures!
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.sandyRoe,The bridge has stood since 1977. So i dont think you can say its fragile.
The bridge support pillars will have been provided with barrier/guards to prevent vessels colliding with them, but with the size of these container ships their bow will hit the bridge before the part of the ship in the water hits the barrier/guard.
It is nigh on impossible to build a bridge that will remain upright with anyone of its supporting pillars removed.
TTT What is NCB and what does up the pictures mean? I can understand Peter Pendants posts more than yours.
Peter Pendant - that awful fellow who always hangs around, whingeing, here
NCB - no claims bonus.
TTT loves decorating his serious posts with stupidities
AND I wondered about insurance and who paid the moolah. It is a mile long, and the insured parties would be bridge operators, cargo ship and pilot. I thought it would be a billion claim and the lawyers would love the quarrelling (and fees).
Here is an English case
they all pointed at each other and said 'not me, him' and the Judge said o come on you are all joking arent you?
It is nigh on impossible to build a bridge that will remain upright with anyone of its supporting pillars removed.
I think the secret is in the word 'supporting' - hey we cd say the bridge suffered from the Delilah effect.
yeah yeah I agree if you knock off a leg from a table if it is perfectly balanced it will stand
//bridges are not designed to be hit by a ship, unquote. I never knew that, did you?//
British Rail are very interested in 'bridge-strikes' - when cars/lorries drive into one. I always thought the uprights were load bearing so if you took one away, er it fell down. But that's me. engineering statics, never got the hang of it
Uppark ( National Trust v Haden) was initially unreported
this is more interesting to us Britons
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can a landlord recover damages for fire damage against a tenant who has negligently caused it?
( for slow ABers, subsitute bridge operator for landlord, bridge for fire, tenant for ship operator) - oh and ignore the contract