Keel Crossing [opened 18.10.25] - compendium thread

[Roker Scoreboard]

Does anyone know if there is a plan in place to test how it holds up under the weight of full match-day footfall? It almost feels like we are being made the guinea pigs to test its strength. A mate of mine was on a run down the river, he worked on the Megyeri Bridge whilst living out in Budapest and said he had some real worries about the standard of work on our new footbridge. He said the abutments (end supports for transferring loads) didn’t look sufficient for the loads it would need to transfer on a matchday.

Is this post genuine or are you suggesting experienced civil engineers and experts won't have thought about load testing?

 

[Harry Gates]

Millennium Bridge II: This Time It's Concrete.

 

[BingoBango]

This is why Poveda hasn't gone anywhere yet: he's integral to the bridge testing programme

 

[Guy Incognito]

Before and after? Now I appreciate your concerns about the bridge.

Aye, if I’m drinking all day. Hot dog or jumbo sausage before, then a double cheeseburger after before drinking again.

Before and after? Seriously?

Would be too expensive getting a hot dog and burger in a restaurant when I’m out all day drinking for the match.

 

[is BobBob lost]

Fiver a pop anarl, cash only apparently.

Scouser in a hi-viz.

 

[The Great Soprendo]

Aye, if I’m drinking all day. Hot dog or jumbo sausage before, then a double cheeseburger after before drinking again.

Would be too expensive getting a hot dog and burger in a restaurant when I’m out all day drinking for the match.

Sounds canny to be fair. Junk food and pints is a combination made in heaven.

 

[MrParsnip]

Fiver a pop anarl, cash only apparently.

No change, either.

 

[Shandy drinker]

Synchronous lateral excitation​

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Caused by 2000 people

 

[pig bodine]

I watched a video of a bridge falling down in China a few years ago it was terrible. The people who fell off the bridge seemed much thinner as well so it makes you think about next season.

 

[Boris Bear]

Wow…a new bar set for lunacy

 

[Guy Incognito]

Is this post genuine or are you suggesting experienced civil engineers and experts won't have thought about load testing?

I’m not doubting they’ve thought about it. My mate knows way more about bridges than you or I and said he was concerned. Time will tell.

 

[Dobbler]

This is why Poveda hasn't gone anywhere yet: he's integral to the bridge testing programme

I thought his arse had been earmarked as a South Stand bike park

 

[Onlyfoolsrushin]

If its the Bridge of Death, Before you cross the Bridge Keeper will ask you three questions.

What is your name?
What is your Quest?
What is the airspeed velocity of a Swallow?

Should slow the footfall traffic down.

 

[Steeeeed]

I know you are joking, but a bridge near Everton’s new ground is requiring a traffic light system. It’s common place in bridges in Eastern Europe too (less so since dissolution of Soviet Union). Could add 7/8 minutes to getting back to vesta tilleys, almost seems fruitless.

Extra incentive to get in the ground early and stay after for a pint. Sneaky KLD.

 

[Shandy drinker]

Synchronous lateral excitation​

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Caused by 2000 people

But 4 x longer

 

[Skrabble]

Before and after? Now I appreciate your concerns about the bridge.

^This

 

[TradingPlaces]

Sunderland Council more bothered about opening for a rugby game than football unfortunately. It won’t be open for West Ham game.

 

[Shandy drinker]

Bridge to FARringdon Row

 

[Twisted]

Remember the millennium bridge on the Thames When larger groups of people started using the bridge

No, i thought it was london bridge which was falling down?

 

[AmblerThorn]

Imagine if this thread ends up tragically bumped