‘London Bridge is Falling Down’: Netizens react after Iconic Tower Bridge malfunctions

Nursery rhyme 'London Bridge is falling down' seems to have an taken entirely different significance after Tower Bridge in capital of England was stuck in  open position for longer than 60 minutes. incident took place on August 22, Saturday, due to a malfunction. netizens captured several ims of bridge at different angles. two sections can be clearly seen pointing urds at different angles. 

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Shutdown of traffic

malfunction resulted in a shutdown of traffic on bridge causing a huge jam in middle of day. London Police informed people about bridge, tweeting, "Tower Bridge is currently closed to pedestrians and traffic, due to a mechanical fault. Mechanics are currently working hard to fix bridge. Please find alternative routes.” 

city police after a few hours came with a follow-up tweet which re that bridge was open to pedestrians and cyclists and is closed for traffic. On Sunday, City of London Police informed, "#TowerBridge has w reopened to traffic. Thank you for your patience. @Squarehighways @TfLTrafficNews @TowerBridge”.

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news drove netizens to react with hilarious responses, with some writing lyrics of London Bridge while a few blamed COVID-19 for error. A user wrote, "London bridge is falling down ! Falling down ! Falling down~! 🎶". second user wrote, "Call me when it's falling down." third user commented, "And joys of 2020 keep coming. Just need London Bridge to fall down w." Some users commented, what all alternative routes to go. Ar user wrote, "What kind of city relies so heavily on one bridge?!" to which someone replied, "One bridge? London has dozens of bridges, two tunnels and a ferry..". While some users tried to help ors mentioning alternative routes.  fault was fixed in an hour. traffic was opened up on both ends of bridge.

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UK is in process of opening up after being among countries that were worst hit by Covid pandemic in first wave of its proliferation around world. UK has over time recorded over 326,000 total cases and suffered 41,433 deaths as per Worldometers.

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Im: AP