[imagesource: Facebook / Carolynne Franklin]

When it comes to Cape Town’s most famous bridge, there is only one name in the running.

It’s officially known as the Foreshore Freeway Bridge, but talk about Cape Town’s ‘unfinished bridge’ and you’ll get a knowing nod.

Transport minister Fikile Mbalula recently stated that the current predicted cost of completing the bridge is around R1,8 billion.

In Muizenberg, there’s another bridge that attracts a great deal of attention due to the volume of trucks that have become wedged under it. In fact, it’s so popular that there’s now a Facebook page “dedicated to over forty years of regular crashes at the Atlantic Road Rail Bridge”.

The Muizenberg’s Famous Truck-Eating Bridge page has more than 3 800 followers who revel in updates like this:

Yes, the bridge is named Bridget.

Or Biddy to those very familiar with her workings.

It’s not just trucks that suffer her wrath, either:

Sometimes, a meal will escape before any photos can be taken:

As the page’s description states, “The Bridge has had more hits than ABBA”.

The ode to Biddy caught the attention of CapeTalk this week, with Lester Kiewit interviewing Tessa Moore, the page’s administrator, and contributor Justin Patrick.

Despite the installation of a 3D laser detection system by the City of Cape Town, which is supposed to alert drivers that their vehicle is too high and advise them to take an alternate route, Biddy keeps feasting.

Here’s Moore:

… It’s been going on regularly ever since [July 1971] … We’d be rather disappointed if council sorted it out. It could be as simple as barring trucks and buses from coming up there. They [Prasa] are not going to do anything about the bridge!

“She was made for wagons… Her best day was 21 December 2017. That week, she had a Checkers food services truck on the Monday, a Checkers truck on the Wednesday, and a Shoprite truck on the Thursday.”

Like unsuspecting grocery-laden flies into a spider’s web.

Consider this a warning to all truck and bus drivers. Biddy’s appetite cannot be satisfied and she will feed again.

You can listen to the full interview with Moore and Patrick below:

[sources:facebook&capetalk]