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Incredible Rolling Bridge in London

toxel.com — Rather than a conventional opening bridge mechanism, consisting of a single rigid element that lifts to let boats pass, the Rolling Bridge gets out of the way by curling up until its two ends touch.

Who dugg this? Made popular Sep 22, 2008

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  • Gnar04, on 09/22/2008, -2/+217"Thats how i roll" - Bridge
  • My571k, on 09/22/2008, -2/+147Amazingly slow!
  • inactive, on 09/22/2008, -2/+95Would be cooler if it happened in a fraction of a second, flinging people into the air.
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  • holyskeleton, on 09/22/2008, -2/+77such slow erection.
  • inactive, on 09/22/2008, -1/+75I'm just gonna wait for pics of somebody getting trapped in there.
  • doiveo, on 09/22/2008, -3/+68Cool but the video felt like a Roman Polanski film. Really could have been sped up and shot at different angles to show off the technical achievement. 'Rolling' is inaccurate too, it's more 'curling'.
  • ncapone, on 09/22/2008, -5/+46That was the most anticlimactic thing I've ever seen.
  • BlaqReaper, on 09/22/2008, -1/+40At that speed...the only people who will get stuck in there will be doing it on purpose.
  • TheEntitled, on 09/22/2008, -0/+30From Wikipedia:

    The bridge was removed in Summer 2008, and it is not know whether it will be re-installed. Although no official explanation has been given, locals in the area believed it had suffered from vandalism, and was too expensive to repair and maintain.
  • Murrdogg, on 09/22/2008, -1/+28Someone speed it up and add Benny Hill music..
  • black27696, on 09/22/2008, -0/+19No he's right. If you were standing on the bridge and it curled up, it would indeed trap (kill?) you.
  • psion01, on 09/22/2008, -0/+19You're sick and twisted.

    I dugg you up.
  • HUNK23, on 09/22/2008, -2/+19Hopefully this time it won't fall down.
  • bryanricker, on 09/22/2008, -1/+17We just got bridge-roll'd
  • Upon66, on 09/22/2008, -4/+19Too slow
  • fatb0y42, on 09/22/2008, -4/+18ITS ALIVEE
  • jmpeagle, on 09/22/2008, -0/+14where did you get it was tax funded? It's owned by a private art/design studio.
  • bilious, on 09/22/2008, -0/+13I can say with some certainty that Google Maps's London aerial photography was taken at noon on a Friday.
    http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=p ...
  • schmitey, on 09/22/2008, -0/+13yeah....but consider the leverage that's going on there. You have to curl up the outer end first and get your weight closer to your base. There's 14 hydraulic cylinders pumping so its gonna be slow. I'm impressed either way because its practical art IMO.
  • Unzorn, on 09/22/2008, -3/+15Imagine being in a hurry and needing to cross that bridge
  • vbullinger, on 09/22/2008, -0/+9They already have a bridge like that: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4b4bGAoVR7g
  • JoeF8577, on 09/22/2008, -1/+7could have used some fast forward there...
  • kevyn, on 09/22/2008, -0/+6booo!
  • amirbd, on 09/22/2008, -0/+6It also probably curls up that slowly so, absent any other warning, anyone who happens to be on the bridge can get off.
  • stevieraveon, on 09/22/2008, -1/+7You're doing it wrong
  • bdfariello, on 09/22/2008, -0/+6My a moron?
  • lolwtfhaha, on 09/22/2008, -0/+6All of the pistons seem to work in unison.... I think it might be neat to have them activated sequentially so it actually looks like it "rolls up" instead of a boner.
  • nowhereelse, on 09/22/2008, -0/+5Vandals are c**ts.
  • skankyBacon, on 09/22/2008, -0/+5Perhaps "ALIIIIIVE" would be a better representation for what you're going for phonetically.
  • TheEntitled, on 09/22/2008, -1/+5Its bad ass, that's the ***** point.


    Cynic.
  • kevyn, on 09/22/2008, -0/+4great bridge, dull movie
  • inactive, on 09/22/2008, -0/+4And no people were present.
  • Shugii, on 09/22/2008, -0/+4Neither
  • dasamps, on 09/22/2008, -0/+4I got it
  • Renster84, on 09/22/2008, -0/+4to get to the other side
  • Armstrong3, on 09/22/2008, -0/+3Vandals: people running late to work and didn't feel like waiting an hour for this thing to unroll.
  • mrzeero, on 09/22/2008, -0/+3Hurry, hurry roll up the moat bridge! Oh no the castle has been over run like every other castle that uses this kind of bridge.
  • brentinkc, on 09/22/2008, -0/+3Not funny anymore.
  • travbrack, on 09/22/2008, -0/+3dugg for the music they play in wildlife documentaries when a spider is wrapping up its pray in fast motion.
  • barc0001, on 09/22/2008, -0/+3Not only that, by doing so it would probably be able to open and close more efficiently and quicker. Notice how much strain is on the thing when it's about 80% open. Great idea, but terrible execution on the hydraulics.
  • rdubya44, on 09/22/2008, -0/+3If it only "rolls up" once a week, is it really worth opening that water passage?
  • TheEntitled, on 09/22/2008, -0/+3I don't get it.
  • thisisparta, on 09/22/2008, -0/+3London bridge is rolling down, rolling down...
  • abajaj2280, on 09/22/2008, -0/+3I wonder how it unwinds.

    SNAP!
  • cuoops, on 09/22/2008, -0/+3Wow, this has never been on Digg before.......
  • martianmartian, on 09/22/2008, -1/+4Watch for it in the next Bond film.
  • black27696, on 09/22/2008, -2/+4That was three words.
  • rhepark, on 09/22/2008, -0/+2funky
  • MattFid, on 09/22/2008, -1/+3I think by the time it curled I could have built my own bridge across.
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