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by medstrom 1148 days ago
If you built a rope-bridge, I'm sure people would beware of cramming it. Maybe it's possible to build designs that discourage.

Where are you from? I haven't seen an "annoyingly narrow" ped/cycle bridge in Sweden or Belgium.

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> “Where are you from? I haven't seen an "annoyingly narrow" ped/cycle bridge in Sweden or Belgium.”

I’d say most of London’s busy pedestrian/cycle bridges and tunnels are annoyingly narrow.

Even taking cyclists out of the equation, they can get congested at times, particularly with tourists stopping to take photos from the middle etc.

So a cyclist can either be polite and move at pedestrian speed, which is annoying for the cyclist. Or weave and dodge pedestrians at speed (typically Deliveroo/UberEats riders on e-bikes) which is annoying and dangerous for pedestrians…

>If you built a rope-bridge, I'm sure people would beware of cramming it.

You're not American or British, ehe? ;)

Or many other countries, I've seen enough video of bridge collapses to know that if people CAN cram on it, at some point they WILL cram on it.