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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.

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  • dudeguy1234, on 09/22/2008, -28/+5"gets out of the way by curling up until its two ends touch"
    That's what she said.
    • ConanMayerFan, on 09/22/2008, -8/+2the bridge was old, so was the joke, btw good one!
    • stevieraveon, on 09/22/2008, -1/+7You're doing it wrong
    • notanidiot, on 09/22/2008, -0/+1Yeah, those jokes are supposed to make sense somehow, and that one didn't.
  • holyskeleton, on 09/22/2008, -2/+77such slow erection.
    • NateTheGreat7, on 09/22/2008, -16/+4"thats what she said"
    • worldchanger, on 09/22/2008, -8/+1This bridge brought to you by: Viagra.
    • themastersb, on 09/22/2008, -9/+1Someone get that bridge some Viagra
    • p3ngwin, on 09/22/2008, -4/+3why did that make me think of prawns?
      • drewedman, on 09/22/2008, -0/+2i thought of a jumbo prawn myself..
  • My571k, on 09/22/2008, -2/+147Amazingly slow!
    • 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.
    • 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.
    • MattFid, on 09/22/2008, -1/+3I think by the time it curled I could have built my own bridge across.
    • notanidiot, on 09/22/2008, -1/+2Slow your roll!
  • fatb0y42, on 09/22/2008, -4/+18ITS ALIVEE
    • ConanMayerFan, on 09/22/2008, -7/+2THATS WHAT SHE SAID
    • skankyBacon, on 09/22/2008, -0/+5Perhaps "ALIIIIIVE" would be a better representation for what you're going for phonetically.
    • Brododium, on 09/22/2008, -0/+2I thought that too, it looks like a curled-up rolly polly.
  • 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'.
  • Upon66, on 09/22/2008, -4/+19Too slow
  • lbdinh, on 09/22/2008, -1/+75I'm just gonna wait for pics of somebody getting trapped in there.
    • BlaqReaper, on 09/22/2008, -1/+40At that speed...the only people who will get stuck in there will be doing it on purpose.
      • claireskitten, on 09/22/2008, -0/+1All I could think while I was watching the video was how someone would stay inside it without losing fingers.
      • lies03, on 09/22/2008, -0/+1Or a wheelchair get's stuck. I've seen old folks electric chairs stop anywhere.
      • VoluntarySpasms, on 09/22/2008, -2/+0Or McCain
    • mithrasinvictus, on 09/22/2008, -0/+1I think a saw a policeman standing guard.
    • jawagas, on 09/22/2008, -0/+1haha, being trapped in that thing would be terrifying. Like a Bone cage from Oblivion!!
  • Gnar04, on 09/22/2008, -2/+217"Thats how i roll" - Bridge
  • eyefork2, on 09/22/2008, -2/+95Would be cooler if it happened in a fraction of a second, flinging people into the air.
  • JoeF8577, on 09/22/2008, -1/+7could have used some fast forward there...
  • hojin994, on 09/22/2008, -10/+5That bridge is cool because it rolls up.
  • InGenUse, on 09/22/2008, -8/+0One word.

    AWESOME!
  • tripledjr, on 09/22/2008, -15/+1SO USELESS.
    Yay tax money.
  • JCH897, on 09/22/2008, -14/+2Wow, that's incredible. Incredibly stupid.
  • Unzorn, on 09/22/2008, -3/+15Imagine being in a hurry and needing to cross that bridge
    • martianmartian, on 09/22/2008, -1/+4Watch for it in the next Bond film.
    • Madrick, on 09/22/2008, -0/+1While being attacked from all sides by zombies. At night. With a flashlight with a horrible battery.

      And only six rounds of shotgun ammo.
  • HUNK23, on 09/22/2008, -2/+19Hopefully this time it won't fall down.
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    • Shruthi99, on 09/22/2008, -28/+4i don't quite think that worked out right there cl2yp71c
      • 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.
      • stk198323, on 09/22/2008, -8/+1@black

        Gosh at the speed of the bridge you could get out of the way before it killed you! Heck even a grandma with parkingson in a wheel chair would have the time to get out.
  • NateTheGreat7, on 09/22/2008, -4/+5Thats awesome. its elegent yet useful.
    id also like to see someone on a motorcycle jump it when its halfway up
  • Genecalypse, on 09/22/2008, -7/+2THAT IS KICK ASS
  • ncapone, on 09/22/2008, -5/+46That was the most anticlimactic thing I've ever seen.
  • JDex, on 09/22/2008, -2/+3Makes me want a moat... invaders = fail. Brilliant design in form and function.
  • SquareEnix, on 09/22/2008, -7/+1me wantee. for my birthday.
  • dmurphy, on 09/22/2008, -4/+1BFD
  • TirkaTirka218, on 09/22/2008, -0/+0i was kinda waiting for it to just fling back open after if finished its 3 minute cycle of closing... would have been kinda funny
  • 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.
  • reject5467, on 09/22/2008, -9/+2OLD seen this like 4 years ago
  • Murrdogg, on 09/22/2008, -1/+28Someone speed it up and add Benny Hill music..
  • elephantstomp, on 09/22/2008, -7/+1Buried as inaccurate. It does not roll, it curls up.
    • TheEntitled, on 09/22/2008, -1/+1Subsequently burried for you being a retard. It is of the "curling bridge" type, but it is officially called "The Rolling Bridge."
    • tk0680, on 09/22/2008, -1/+1***** hell you're a joyless pedant, elephantstomp.
  • dawna67, on 09/22/2008, -0/+2very cool, ingenious, creative, thinking outside the box
  • Torx, on 09/22/2008, -1/+1Looks like a rolly-polly
  • 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.
    • 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.
  • mrcoldcow, on 09/22/2008, -8/+1What the hell is the point of it?
    • TheEntitled, on 09/22/2008, -1/+5Its bad ass, that's the ***** point.


      Cynic.
  • rdubya44, on 09/22/2008, -0/+3If it only "rolls up" once a week, is it really worth opening that water passage?
  • abajaj2280, on 09/22/2008, -0/+3I wonder how it unwinds.

    SNAP!
    • TheEntitled, on 09/22/2008, -0/+3I don't get it.
    • abajaj2280, on 09/22/2008, -0/+1You know.... when it unwinds, it goes at X100 the speed as when it winds up. so its super fast, and it makes a snapping noise...

      Aww forget it, you'd have to hear it in person to get it :/
    • bdfariello, on 09/22/2008, -0/+1I was thinking something like one of those slap bracelets.
  • oneredeye, on 09/22/2008, -0/+2I love how the pictures on the page are in completely random order.
  • aquapete, on 09/22/2008, -2/+21 min into video zzzz. that is really cool though.
  • WebDeveloperSF, on 09/22/2008, -0/+1Not really useful but really cool!
  • TheEntitled, on 09/22/2008, -0/+29From 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.
    • nowhereelse, on 09/22/2008, -0/+5Vandals are c**ts.
    • kevyn, on 09/22/2008, -0/+6booo!
    • Glo0, on 09/22/2008, -0/+1thats not surprising.
    • 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.
    • beatleman, on 09/24/2008, -0/+1"it is not know??" Wikipedia at its finest!
  • cuoops, on 09/22/2008, -0/+3Wow, this has never been on Digg before.......
  • Elliottx, on 09/22/2008, -5/+1......What's the point? O.o
  • BriscoeJr, on 09/22/2008, -9/+0It's been done before.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5p4nyRsHpoo
  • 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.
  • diggenerate, on 09/22/2008, -1/+2pretty cool, but a little on the impractical side.
  • MikeFallopian, on 09/22/2008, -0/+1OK, who asked for rule 34 on bridges?
  • 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 ...
  • fireblaze, on 09/22/2008, -0/+0luv it luv it:):):)
  • Markers, on 09/22/2008, -0/+1That bridge has some awesome freeriding potential...
  • MrMax99, on 09/22/2008, -0/+1That bridge would be sweet in a motorcycle race scene in some action movie.
  • VinnieDaMac, on 09/22/2008, -0/+1That thing could crush somebody..
  • bryanricker, on 09/22/2008, -1/+17We just got bridge-roll'd
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