This was funny in the comics community.
Here however, it comes of quite a bit psychotic.
And in case it needs to be said: NO, blowing up a bridge with mostly innocent people is bad, mkay?
It's fairly dire to assume that people in this community will read this comic and go "Oh snap! Why didn't I think about this before?"
As I just posted in another comment, my read on the comic is that the person we see in the last panel is intentionally depicted as psychotic, and not an aspirational figure... but yeah. Don't blow up people to prove a point about infrastructure.
The real (modern) london bridge is mostly bus lane and pedestrian traffic. 2x bus lanes, 2x wide pavements, and 2x car lanes (probably mostly taxis). I'd guess - from when i used to regularly use it 10-15 years ago, the pavements move the most people by a decent margin , especially at rush hour. I always thought they should close one of the bus lanes at rush hour to give to pedestrians.
It's not clear which bridge they're trying to draw though, normally people depict tower bridge which is way narrower. I think just 1 mixed lane in each direction - that is often a log jam of buses and cars - still fairly decent width pavements though, but no where near the rush hour (pedestrian) traffic of London bridge. Thats just because its a worse location.
Of course the nursery rhyme refers to the old medieval london bridge that was covered with houses and shops and stuff. Of corse in those days people went to Southwark for different reasons.
Maybe they're depicting the dartford crossing?
London Bridge now has cycle lanes, too, but they're not properly connected at either end. Still, a bit of an improvement, makes it easy to admire the view as you cross!
What the fuck? No wonder people think we are unhinged. Get this shit outta here. I just want to be able to walk to the grocery store.
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You assume that I already didn't do that, as well as commenting.
As someone who used to cycle, walk or ride a bus across these bridges, please don't blow them up. In fact, I think all the central London bridges have bus lanes, plenty of walking space and some have cycle lanes. Theres one bridge for people only. I know im taking this too seriously but it's a very scary thought
So....kill hundreds of innocent people is the answer? This isn't some Luigi shit. that would just mostly people trying to get to or from work and the message here is they should all die for that?
It's a dark joke about a nursery rime. It doesn't read like a call to action.
And if it had been in A comic group I would agree. Honestly I like this. But posting it here has implications.
I think you're the only one taking the comic this literally?
The top two panels do have some !fuckcars energy, but the lower half about the bombing is about a delusional and/or haunted guy who is spurred on by a ghostly woman. Not exactly a call to action against private motorists.
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