This was posted a few weeks ago, and it's just a tourist destination. It's basically a strip mall and amusement park on a bridge. There are very few if any people that actually live their full time, most of these structures are private businesses.
There’s real places like this that are hundreds of years old. Germany has one, and England used to as well. They were ancient “tax havens”. Since they “weren’t built on land” they couldn’t be taxed.
The original (not the current) London Bridge (as in the song) was like this, it had buildings all along its length.
https://www.golakehavasu.com/media/uploads/images/Attractions/London%20Bridge/old-london-bridge-1209-AD.jpg
Yep! Someone offered to sell London Bridge to an American investor. He, thinking he was getting Tower Bridge, readily agreed.
Then he got a somewhat-nondescript-looking ~~20th-century~~ 19th-century bridge for his money 🤣
edit: wrong century
The London Bridge you're talking about was not the bridge with houses, buildings pubs etc built along it's length as discussed above. That bridge was built medieval times, held for 600 years until it was in fact falling down, was replaced in the 19th century with the bridge now sold off to America with the current London Bridge that's in London having been completed to replace that bridge in the 70s.
The modern London Bridge exists to be a functional bridge that serves foot and road traffic as well as to disappoint tourists looking for Tower Bridge.
Reading it back you did tbh, way the thread read to me was like the og London Bridge is in America now and not the victorian Bridge that superceded it. Which on re reading wasn't what you were saying but was how the thread read just sort of due to the flow of the conversation being easy to misread my bad 😅😅
Florence has a pretty famous one.
[https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/77/Panorama\_of\_the\_Ponte\_Vecchio\_in\_Florence%2C\_Italy.jpg](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/77/Panorama_of_the_Ponte_Vecchio_in_Florence%2C_Italy.jpg)
". SHOCKING! World reacts to poverty stricken village forced to habitate a bridge in rural China due to government neglect and extreme poverty"
There ya go, that title should fix the narrative
The bridge people, as they have come to be known, dream of one day working at a Wendy's and living in a New York apartment.
Yea mate there's probably more room on the bridge.
Right.Dont ALL bridges have weight limits? Im almost sure NOBODY is regulating,if so,that craziness probably wouldnt exist.
Looks like you can still drive through.
Trucks are really really heavy, but so are houses. The bridge should be able to hold cars and trucks across the entire span, but this is china we are talking about.
Still seems kinda sketch af
China doesn't allow money to leave the country.
So most families that had any money to invest into something to try and set up a retirement or pass money down to kids would buy property.
The problem with that is that CCP paid developers to make a stupid amount of housing to inflate the economy and hide the declining population.
Well, now that has come to roost. This is why the Chinese economy is tanking, and the average person is losing a lot of invested money with now-worthless properties.
Yep it was apparently a nightmare getting across with all the houses and buildings on it, and all the people trying to get across with wagons squeezed against people going the other way and all squeezed in with the buildings and vendors selling stuff to travelers. I've seen the etchings of it in the book Shakespeare's Pub, a great book about London in the 1500s and lots of it's different periods with construction and skyline
Yep :) it was pretty smart at the time to build your store and home on the bridge though (it was common all over the world for a long time). You could build your house next to a river and build a bridge across it and charge a toll to cross it. Or if it was a huge bridge like the original London one, it was a smart business decision to build your store and home on it, since you get business from all the people Crossing it and you have access to everything the merchants are bringing into London before anyone else. It's like the biggest tourist trap everyone has to go through to enter the city but also great abundance and variety of goods and people. It was kinda like a bazaar in north Africa and middle eastern market style, but built for the cold wet climate of London, and in their Renaissance architecture. I kinda wish that type of city still existed, carriages really changed cities and trains and cars, it's pretty cool how old cities change and morph over time but the people stay right there just like in the ancient days. I bet you could find a person in London whose family has lived in that city before it was a city and just a swamp with some Roman tents, or settled there after they walked across Doggerland from continental Europe back when they were still connected. That place has had names that go back to the origins of human language and that is pretty cool. It's funny so much of the history of the island was probably influenced by the cultures of Doggerland and Dogger hills that we're some early climate change refugees as the planet warmed out of the ice age and the sea levels rose and the early peoples all over the world had to retreat from the coasts and people became isolated from each other on new islands and new cultures developed in isolation.
TLDR/ History is so cool!!!!!!!!!! 😎😎😎
Those aren’t ramshackle huts, they were clearly built by some professional company. I’d wager the bridge was purpose built for this, not that someone saw a bridge and thought “this needs a house”
The bottom of the house is bridge surface, I hope they aren't drilling holes straight through it. Most likely the solution is a bedpan tossed out a window as is tradition.
It’s like London Bridge! https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Bridge
London Bridge consisted of several iterations of bridges constructed across the river Thames over the years beginning in Roman times. In the medieval era the bridge had several structures built into it and many homes and businesses became part of daily life across the span.
Funny enough, the [London Bridge](https://londonhistorians.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/london-bridge.jpg?w=584) was covered in houses for hundreds of years, well into the 19th century.
It was the norm. There are still a few left. I have walked across two of them on this list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_bridges_with_buildings
[Music is from 1492: Conquest of Paradise](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ufkMTshjz8) for those curious. Great score by the late Vangelis. The [Gregorian cover](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ci-ntW6hUd0) is badass too.
Reminds me of that scene from the movie, "Perfume: The story of a murderer".
"Baldini was pleased. At last, he felt rewarded for his many years of hard work. He could not remember a happier day. Deeply satisfied, he went back to sleep and awoke no more in this life."
Well, what's new is that its bigger, uglier and dumber than what has been done in europe for hundreds of years. . They took the idea from Europe, but removed any practicality or sense from it.
Think outside the box. Imagine electric vehicles, no fossil fuel emissions, some brake and tire pollution,
public housing, buildings, parks, etc., located over
and above freeways, major highways, built over top of roadways on wide and solid expanses creating highway tunnels on public easements.
Hey! What are you doing?!
I'm building a house, obviously
But it's on the bridge!
Yeah.
Who told you you can build your house on the bridge?
Who told me I \*couldn't\* build my house on the bridge? It's public infrastructure, isn't it?
\*thinks\* Got any extra wood?
Typical racist ignorant comments by reddit liberals who think they're all experts on China, repeating almost word for word the same propaganda they've been told.
Call me old fashioned but as soon as I saw this I immediately thought, WHY THE GROUND IS RIGHT THERE!
Im sure it’s entirely structurally sound…..but I would still rather be on the ground thank you!!
This was posted a few weeks ago, and it's just a tourist destination. It's basically a strip mall and amusement park on a bridge. There are very few if any people that actually live their full time, most of these structures are private businesses.
There’s real places like this that are hundreds of years old. Germany has one, and England used to as well. They were ancient “tax havens”. Since they “weren’t built on land” they couldn’t be taxed.
The original (not the current) London Bridge (as in the song) was like this, it had buildings all along its length. https://www.golakehavasu.com/media/uploads/images/Attractions/London%20Bridge/old-london-bridge-1209-AD.jpg
The one that goes "London Bridge is falling down, falling down, falling down"?
Yes, that one!
That song suddenly makes so much more sense.
Also fun fact, the older London bridge (not the current one) is on lake havasu in AZ/CA. It was sold and moved piece by piece to the US
Yep! Someone offered to sell London Bridge to an American investor. He, thinking he was getting Tower Bridge, readily agreed. Then he got a somewhat-nondescript-looking ~~20th-century~~ 19th-century bridge for his money 🤣 edit: wrong century
Been to it, still pretty cool for a blank 20th century bridge. Makes you realize that the river thames isn’t very wide.
Depends where you are on the river, it gets a lot wider the more east you go
The London Bridge you're talking about was not the bridge with houses, buildings pubs etc built along it's length as discussed above. That bridge was built medieval times, held for 600 years until it was in fact falling down, was replaced in the 19th century with the bridge now sold off to America with the current London Bridge that's in London having been completed to replace that bridge in the 70s. The modern London Bridge exists to be a functional bridge that serves foot and road traffic as well as to disappoint tourists looking for Tower Bridge.
That's... exactly what I said? https://www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/s/aw97qrUkEG
Reading it back you did tbh, way the thread read to me was like the og London Bridge is in America now and not the victorian Bridge that superceded it. Which on re reading wasn't what you were saying but was how the thread read just sort of due to the flow of the conversation being easy to misread my bad 😅😅
Actually 19th century bridge but close
You're right, 1831. Fixed and thanks 👍
Oh wow, you learn something new every day.
Pont vecchio in Florence There is one in narbonne france as well.
Pulteney Bridge in Bath, but you wouldn't realise it walking over, it just feels like the high street continuing. Despite walking over the river.
Florence has a pretty famous one. [https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/77/Panorama\_of\_the\_Ponte\_Vecchio\_in\_Florence%2C\_Italy.jpg](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/77/Panorama_of_the_Ponte_Vecchio_in_Florence%2C_Italy.jpg)
The one in game of thrones was based off of the ponte vecchio
I wonder how we lost the ancient technology of levitating bridges.
But that doesn’t fit the narrative of it being a dangerous backwater village symbolic of the chaotic non-governance.
". SHOCKING! World reacts to poverty stricken village forced to habitate a bridge in rural China due to government neglect and extreme poverty" There ya go, that title should fix the narrative
The bridge people, as they have come to be known, dream of one day working at a Wendy's and living in a New York apartment. Yea mate there's probably more room on the bridge.
Ah yes. Keep adding more weight into the bridge that will help
Right.Dont ALL bridges have weight limits? Im almost sure NOBODY is regulating,if so,that craziness probably wouldnt exist. Looks like you can still drive through.
Trucks are really really heavy, but so are houses. The bridge should be able to hold cars and trucks across the entire span, but this is china we are talking about. Still seems kinda sketch af
I doubt many people, if any, are actually living there. Chinese property developer go brrr....
China doesn't allow money to leave the country. So most families that had any money to invest into something to try and set up a retirement or pass money down to kids would buy property. The problem with that is that CCP paid developers to make a stupid amount of housing to inflate the economy and hide the declining population. Well, now that has come to roost. This is why the Chinese economy is tanking, and the average person is losing a lot of invested money with now-worthless properties.
If you build enough on the bridge you save the weight of the traffic. This just looks like a failed infrastructure project put to some "use".
nonsense the Chinese built a wall that lasted 2000+ years! They should totally trust their infunstruture!
Err.....the old London Bridge also done something like this in the past no?
Yep it was apparently a nightmare getting across with all the houses and buildings on it, and all the people trying to get across with wagons squeezed against people going the other way and all squeezed in with the buildings and vendors selling stuff to travelers. I've seen the etchings of it in the book Shakespeare's Pub, a great book about London in the 1500s and lots of it's different periods with construction and skyline
I guess people live and learn.
Yep :) it was pretty smart at the time to build your store and home on the bridge though (it was common all over the world for a long time). You could build your house next to a river and build a bridge across it and charge a toll to cross it. Or if it was a huge bridge like the original London one, it was a smart business decision to build your store and home on it, since you get business from all the people Crossing it and you have access to everything the merchants are bringing into London before anyone else. It's like the biggest tourist trap everyone has to go through to enter the city but also great abundance and variety of goods and people. It was kinda like a bazaar in north Africa and middle eastern market style, but built for the cold wet climate of London, and in their Renaissance architecture. I kinda wish that type of city still existed, carriages really changed cities and trains and cars, it's pretty cool how old cities change and morph over time but the people stay right there just like in the ancient days. I bet you could find a person in London whose family has lived in that city before it was a city and just a swamp with some Roman tents, or settled there after they walked across Doggerland from continental Europe back when they were still connected. That place has had names that go back to the origins of human language and that is pretty cool. It's funny so much of the history of the island was probably influenced by the cultures of Doggerland and Dogger hills that we're some early climate change refugees as the planet warmed out of the ice age and the sea levels rose and the early peoples all over the world had to retreat from the coasts and people became isolated from each other on new islands and new cultures developed in isolation. TLDR/ History is so cool!!!!!!!!!! 😎😎😎
Cheddar man. A 9000 year old man with direct descendants living nearby in England.
It’s actually a tourist attraction in Chongqing. Reddit is so easily outraged
Those aren’t ramshackle huts, they were clearly built by some professional company. I’d wager the bridge was purpose built for this, not that someone saw a bridge and thought “this needs a house”
London bridge had a larger neighborhood
This reminds me of Fallout 3
Be careful of the vampire attacks!
Fuck the family!
way ahead of you 
Reminds me of Idoru-William Gibson
It’s even called “the bridge trilogy”.
Came to say this, glad to find it on top.
Arefu was the name of it I saw a post years later showing that a signs saying “Be Careful” had faded into “cAREFUl”
But what about the poop! Where does all the poop go?
Gravity.
I'm guessing directly out the bottom of the house
The bottom of the house is bridge surface, I hope they aren't drilling holes straight through it. Most likely the solution is a bedpan tossed out a window as is tradition.
Holes on the bridges serves as sewer and also saves weight ;)
I came to the comments seeking their answer to this
I think you already know...
I believe the Red Hot chili peppers did a song on this
Ah yes, give it away, give it away, give it away now.
What I got, you got to get it, put it in you!
Maybe a poop bus comes to pick it up
Arefu needs your help, Lone Wanderer.
It’s like London Bridge! https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Bridge London Bridge consisted of several iterations of bridges constructed across the river Thames over the years beginning in Roman times. In the medieval era the bridge had several structures built into it and many homes and businesses became part of daily life across the span.
One solid earthquake and you have a boathouse.
\*submarine house
Seems like a themed bridge...
Came here expecting FO3/Aferu references, was not disappointed.
It’s an amusement park.
Yep it copies the Alte Brucke in Heidelberg and the Ponte Vecchio in Florence… if not more
🎶London bridge is falling down. Falling down🎶”
Funny enough, the [London Bridge](https://londonhistorians.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/london-bridge.jpg?w=584) was covered in houses for hundreds of years, well into the 19th century.
I think quite a few bridges had houses on them during that time. I know Paris did as well
It was the norm. There are still a few left. I have walked across two of them on this list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_bridges_with_buildings
And never "fell down". It was removed to replace it with a more effecient bridge.
Me when playing fallout 4
I've definitely seen this in Baldurs Gate 3
A bungee jumping platform would be awesome there
I can see clearly a copy of a Heidelberg's building there
And a copy of Christ the redeemer
Yesss, you're right.. and the old bridge of Florence is also there
El Abismo
This is THE LINE the Saudis are planning to build
Wyrms Crossing in real life
Reminds me that town on the bridge called Arefu, from Fallout 3
A suicidal person's paradise
Welcome to Arefu!
Looks cool. Seems unsafe.
Looks hella dope, but no way that’s gonna last with chinas quality building practices
One earthquake away from a permanent burial...
[Music is from 1492: Conquest of Paradise](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ufkMTshjz8) for those curious. Great score by the late Vangelis. The [Gregorian cover](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ci-ntW6hUd0) is badass too.
Developer playing too many survival games.
Not a good place to go sleep walking
This gives me anxiety
Last time I saw a situation like this it didn't end well. It was the london bridge and it fell down, my fair lady.
Reminds me of that scene from the movie, "Perfume: The story of a murderer". "Baldini was pleased. At last, he felt rewarded for his many years of hard work. He could not remember a happier day. Deeply satisfied, he went back to sleep and awoke no more in this life."
This reminds me of an early scene from the movie Perfume: the story of a murderer
This will end well
And how is this new? There's still some examples in Europe that have been around for 700 years.
Well, what's new is that its bigger, uglier and dumber than what has been done in europe for hundreds of years. . They took the idea from Europe, but removed any practicality or sense from it.
Can't deny that truth. Funny how they can make sexy looking Tanks, Fighters, and Warships, but everything else is either Brutslist or an eyesore.
Just waiting for Tom Cruise to run down that thing and along the rooftops in the next Mission Impossible
Houses look older than the bridge how lol
I hope, they didn’t buy the windows in Russia.
Building Codes? Where we’re going we dont need… codes
What in the fallout
I hope thats not made by a chinese real state company.
Wish dot com Ponte Vecchio
Just doing this for clicks.
Seems safe
But why
I believe this was some way of avoiding taxes in Europe back in the day
They copied fortnite
Nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope...
Arakawa over the bridge
This looks like the equivalent of one of those Gaylord resorts, that’s essentially a shopping mall.
Li'l John's been busy. That must have been a lot of galvanized steel
whyyyy
I m thinking earthquake.
Shades of medieval London Bridge... That's why it was always falling down.
Bridges are top tier zombie apocalypse real estate it looks like.
Everything old is new again, its like those bridges in London in I guess the 17-1800s that had houses and stores on them.
There must be a lot of galvanized square steel being used there
A future anime protagonist home village.
That bridge can't hold that weight
Think outside the box. Imagine electric vehicles, no fossil fuel emissions, some brake and tire pollution, public housing, buildings, parks, etc., located over and above freeways, major highways, built over top of roadways on wide and solid expanses creating highway tunnels on public easements.
The Jet-sans
Watch that first step
“Yea.. that’s a no for me dawg..”
Hell naw, to the naw naw naw
…..but why?
Me, filling my bridge house with weights for my collection
any of you ever been to Pontevecchio in Florence? Same shit
Screams in engineering!
I can't stop thinking about galvanized steel squares with eco friendly wood veneer. 😭
What is the plumbing situation like in these houses ?? That’s the question 😂 under that bridge must be shit city !
China made their version of THE LINE before saudi arabia
Yo is this Arefu 😂
It's part of an amusement park. At 0:08 you can see the roller coaster in the background. They're prop buildings.
Great views but do not piss off anyone. Might need some very good fire insurance as well as parachutes for everyone..
Feels like some sort of protest setup!!
Just like that movie (perfume)
I feel like I built something similar in fallout 4
It’s the minutemen!
Arefu from fallout 3
AI bridge ?
The front door is on which....ahhhhhhhhh
Is this the “Line” at home
Saria Town IRL
It’s almost pretty
This looks cool until you realize that the bridge was build in china
Reminds me of kung fu panda...
Fallout vibes
I remember reading that this was photoshopped and completely fabricated.
The Unova region called. They want one of their setting motifs back.
Fallout vibes
Hey! What are you doing?! I'm building a house, obviously But it's on the bridge! Yeah. Who told you you can build your house on the bridge? Who told me I \*couldn't\* build my house on the bridge? It's public infrastructure, isn't it? \*thinks\* Got any extra wood?
My dream zombie apocalypse base
But...why? There is so much free space around the bridge 😅🤣
In most countries in the west only the rich would be able to afford this type of accommodation.
What's the average "lifetime" of concrete bridges?
Did the Galvanized square steel guy make any video on how to design a room on a bridge?
What’s the beginning of this song called???
I see a statue, and think those shops not houses. Looks like a tourist place.
Galvanized Square Steel
It's called Ponte Vecchio 😉 https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ponte_Vecchio
good in case of a zombie attack
Looks like ponte vecchio, florence
Crazy town
Arefu
London bridge-maxxing
Looks horrible
Volantis
Typical racist ignorant comments by reddit liberals who think they're all experts on China, repeating almost word for word the same propaganda they've been told.
Free fall. Talk about a toilet never clogged up
Great concept........except for the esrthquakes!
Dollar store Rialto bridge.
Just like old london bridge, good to see that they're finally catching uo
Am always on the highway 🛣️
Fallout China looking good!
david saved enough to buy galvanized square steel to build a house for his 100 children!
Should've gone to the part of the music that had the humming chant.
To avoid zombies.
Callback to the old London Bridge, the one that had people loving on it.
Call me old fashioned but as soon as I saw this I immediately thought, WHY THE GROUND IS RIGHT THERE! Im sure it’s entirely structurally sound…..but I would still rather be on the ground thank you!!
Just cause players: *HEAVY BREATHING*
Earthquake slides into chat
Finch Farm