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>>>>>>Like Nick I've driven over it a few times - but it's not very interesting to drive across. From the road itself you get very little sense of the vertical drop beneath the wheels.
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>>>>>>I also cycled down the Tam a couple of times - once when it was being built and once since. From the floor of the valley it looks much more impressive - oddly enough more so during construction when huge sections were just jutting out into space like the highest diving board in the world.
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>>>>>Its a shame these bridges don't have a footpath/cycle path any more. I remember walking over the old severn bridge just after it was built and it was very interesting.
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>>>>Always meant to do that - never had time.
>>>>Does the SSC have a cycle path? I guess not - I've driven over it dozens of times and not noticed one....
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>>>>On the Millau bridge:
>>>>I remember that before it was built driving thru Millau was a really bottle neck - long queues of heavy trucks going south. The bridge seems to have swallowed this traffic easily - I've never seen it looking even remotely busy. Millau itself however doesn't appear to have benefited from this - it is as jammed as ever - presumably with tourists who have come to see the bridge!
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>>>I don't think the SSC has one.
>>>Going back even further I remember getting the Aust ferry which was nice.
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>>Only remember using that once. Half-a-crown for a car IIRC (what's that ? 12.5p?)
>>At least they've got the tolls right now - charge people to come to Wales, not to leave :-}
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>I seem to remember a chant at Bristol City. "We should have built a wall not a bridge" :-)
I guess Wales would have been happy to share the cost ;-}