
My brother used to be enthralled by the
superb design of a bridge on the
[new] Preston bypass.
It was built in two halves, meeting in the centre to rest on a large roller.
Wonderfully simple but from this distant perspective possibly
suspicious.About the same time, on TV,
Tracy Island, the home of
International Rescue, whenever the Tracy brothersfired up the
Thunderbirds, the hidden cave door swung open and two
palm trees flattened.
[Wallace and Grommit only had the pond flip over].At the height of the
Cold War the Preston bypass morphed into the
M6 and the Motorway network.
These superhighways were really designed for jet fighters
[there was little traffic in those far off days]. So could that little cantilevered bridge also be swung open in
times of trouble - Who Knows?
The excellent
Israeli motorways allow a
General Mobilisation in 20 minutes!