 By Warwick Evans
And here is the news. The government is to consider demolishing the Tsing Yi island
bridge, following this week's collision with an ocean-going barge. The call came from the
chairman of the HK Barge-owners Association, who described the bridge as being possessed
by the devil, and a hazard to shipping. Speaking after a fairly heavy lunch, he cited
several occasions this year when the bridge had allegedly pulled itself free of its
moorings, and had slammed into unsuspecting barges attempting to negotiate the narrow
channel. Collisions between the bridge and the barges, he said, had only begun to occur
after the bridge was built, and so could not have been the fault of the barges. He said
the bridge was "evil," and called on the government to demolish it as soon as
possible. And, as I speak, we've just received word of yet another collision - the 423rd
this year - and it seems the bridge has once again run amok is the Tsing Yi channel,
viciously and maliciously splitting open one of its gas pipes on the superstructure of an
innocent barge.
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