It’s over.
Success! Montague Street Bridge avoided!https://t.co/szpZ6dKTJN
— 3AW Melbourne (@3AW693) May 27, 2016
The bridge itself seems unnervingly relieved about the installations.
Now I get to watch jerks crash into these instead of me!
Thank you @VicRoads! https://t.co/PLL6SvJuh3— Montague St Bridge (@MontagueStBridg) May 26, 2016
And because this is the internet and people are *hilarious* the gantries themselves have not one, but TWO Twitter accounts. And they’re bloody brawling over which one is better.
Who’s ready to party with me? Woop woop! pic.twitter.com/YWNr6e1r8H
— MSB Paddles (@MSB_Paddles) May 26, 2016
paddles??? Pfft! A little respect please. It’s ‘gantry’, not paddles.
— Monatgue Gantry (@Montaguegantry) May 26, 2016
If you want to get technical, the gantry’s the steel support structure, independent of the paddles. But that’s just one opinion on the matter.