David Hansen wrote:
as the so-called Thames Gateway Bridge clearly illustrates.

Thames Gateway Bridge? Isn't that the one they started building a few
years ago and then gave up?

The bits of it they actually built are still visible - on the docklands
road near the Beckton Savacentre, right by the old gasworks where they
filmed Full Metal Jacket. (Well, they were still there last time I
looked, but come to think of it, it's four years since I moved out of
east London... the area was pretty much derelict at the time but is by
now probably a thriving residential estate for "executives"...)

d.