Workers on the Millennium Bridge, by reducing the headroom of the bridge while they work, have triggered an ancient by-law of London requiring that a bale of straw be hung underneath to warn river traffic.

3 comments

1. I love mad stuff like this, thanks!

2. Interestingly the same has happened on other bridges too.

   2010 https://londonist.com/2010/07/bundle_of_straw_hanging_from_tower

   2009 https://www.london-se1.co.uk/news/view/3906

3. Make hay whilst the sun shines!