Dartford brigde drop in road

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last couple of weeks ive crossed dartford brigde its seems the a rather bad dip in the road where it meets the brigde to me it had got a lot worse than it used to be.anyone else felt this when crossing. hope the operator has been inform dont want to hear the brigde or support has collasped and kill many

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IT’S SINKING!!!
Bring back I K Brunel.

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There’s another big dip when coming off M4 eastbound and head anti-clock on to M25 just on the fly over section and you can see scrapes in the tarmac where vehicles have bottomed out.

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The Germans are just renewing a piece of autobahn that was laid before the war ( that’s the war that ended in 1945 for the youngsters).

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thunder367:
last couple of weeks ive crossed dartford brigde its seems the a rather bad dip in the road where it meets the brigde to me it had got a lot worse than it used to be.anyone else felt this when crossing. hope the operator has been inform dont want to hear the brigde or support has collasped and kill many

It seems that they have taken out the expansion joint and put in a temorary cover until it can be replaced.
What I find more worrying about that bridge is when your underneath looking up at the concrete slabs what the road is layed on is the amount of cracking in it!!

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The cracking in reinforced concrete is normal and kind of designed into it to allow a certain flex, the problem with cracking is the depth and length of the cracks. Should they go near halfway (I think) through the thickness of the concrete then there is a problem.
So hopefully its fine :open_mouth:

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weeto:

thunder367:
last couple of weeks ive crossed dartford brigde its seems the a rather bad dip in the road where it meets the brigde to me it had got a lot worse than it used to be.anyone else felt this when crossing. hope the operator has been inform dont want to hear the brigde or support has collasped and kill many

It seems that they have taken out the expansion joint and put in a temorary cover until it can be replaced.
What I find more worrying about that bridge is when your underneath looking up at the concrete slabs what the road is layed on is the amount of cracking in it!!

Just go there any time after 10:30pm and you can sit in the queue they create and watch them for 30 minutes