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Forgive this for being a screenshot, I edited the lighting in the photograph, but the original photo was taken by me around 2022.

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[–] malockin 5 points 7 months ago (2 children)
[–] NOT_RICK 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

The design includes two 44-metre-long arms, capable of swinging open when required. That operation is controlled by a hand-held remote device but that device went missing some years ago, meaning openings were no longer possible.

The Authority β€” which is set to be wound-up in the coming months β€” moved offices several times in the past few years, and it’s understood the remote (which is about the size of a 1990s-era mobile phone) may have been simply misplaced in the move.

Lol

[–] Zoomboingding 1 points 7 months ago

Someone needs to get NASA on the case to remote inject some new code

[–] Clanket 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

That's a different bridge. The bridge in the photo is the Samuel Beckitt Bridge.

[–] malockin 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

yep... you're right... I didn't notice that. The story's still funny though (⁀ᗒ⁀)

edit: looking at it through Google Street View, the picture in the post was actually taken from the Sean O'Casey bridge XD

[–] Clanket 1 points 7 months ago

Yep it was indeed.