A 'Ludicrously Ugly' Bridge Is Exhibit a That Britain Has Lost Its Mojo

They had to down tools because they found roman ruins or something and consult archeology to proceed.

Whats interesting is that this bridge build effectively partitioned the city. You had to drive to the city limits to the ring road, drive around the edge to access that area. The local council found this agreeable, and they rolled out an entire traffic policy, which also reached international attention, that effectively splits the city into sectors, forcing drivers to drive around the crust to get into their destination slice.

"Man, architecture nerds, amirite? Let's click and see how...OMG!" Yeah, that is ridiculously ugly for what it is. Like someone went out of their way.

Going to go out on a limb and say, without reading the article and based just on the domain name and the headline, that the story is not going to be as simple as that, and the WSJ, not exactly a stellar publication at the best of times, is merely furthering the typical American business cultural loathing of the UK, or regulations, or some other nonsense.

wow "a quarter of a billion dollars" for that.

My guess is that with modular precast forms, it would be something $500k max!

Somebody pocketed some big amount of cash, I would guess.