The closure of the bridge only two days after opening attracted public criticism of it as another high-profile British Millennium project suffered an embarrassing setback, akin to how many saw the Millennium Dome.

The closure of the bridge for major annual events has continued each year since then.

During the 2007 county bridge closure period, the Toll Bridge provided the only route for vehicles to travel to and from the island.

The opening of the road bridge also led to the closure of the railway line from Tayport to Dundee in 1969.

The damage sustained by the bridge required its partial closure for repairs.

The presence of mangled intermodal cars in the southbound lanes of Lincoln Road, as well as one teetering on the edge of the bridge, forced the closure of the road.

The blast came four years after an attempted bombing by the Provisional IRA ( with the largest Semtex bomb ever found in mainland Britain ) but following two years of closure for repairs the bridge was reopened with further weight restrictions in place.

By the 1920s the problems had increased, with settlement at pier five necessitating closure of the whole bridge while some heavy superstructure was removed and temporary reinforcements put in place.

Reportedly, the Bridge Commission is considering closure of the upper deck of the bridge if rail users are not willing to pay for repairs.

With bridge collapses and damage on the nearby A596, and a road closure on the A591, the only passable route to anywhere north of the River Derwent was via the A66 and M6 to Carlisle-a diversion of over.

The closure of Ottawa Union Station in 1966 saw the last passenger trains use the Royal Alexandra Bridge and the railway tracks were removed as the bridge became exclusively a vehicular-pedestrian bridge.

* On 28 August 2006, due to the late completion of bridge preparation works on the Belgrave and Lilydale railway line, the line was closed for the morning with inadequate warning to commuters of the closure of the line between Blackburn and Ringwood stations causing chaos at Ringwood where lengthy queues formed for the replacement buses.

What was once North America's largest bridge club, Kate Buckman's, was on Mount Pleasant near Eglinton for many years until its closure in 2007 ; the Toronto Bridge Club is on St. Clair near Yonge.

Lock 21E was relocated a short distance upstream, to the other side of Platt Lane, in order to ensure that the Platt Lane crossing could be achieved by a conventional bridge instead of the swing bridge that had existed prior to closure.

Britannia Rd Bridge was formerly hump backed, but changes in traffic levels since closure rendered such a bridge impractical, and instead the pound from 22E to 23E was lowered by.

On May 2, 2007, a 24-inch ( 60 cm ) water main broke near the south end of the University Bridge, creating a 10-foot-deep sinkhole forcing the closure of the bridge.

This bridge has a low 3. 7 metre clearance underneath the railway viaduct and is close to the water, resulting in a number of stuck trucks and frequent closure due to river flooding.

In spring 2004, the Washington State Department of Transportation ( WSDOT ) finished Phase 1 of its South Seattle Intermodal Access project, which involved the closure of the I-90 on-and off-ramps at 4th Avenue S., the extension of S. Atlantic Street ( now known as Edgar Martínez Drive S .) over the rail tracks, and the connection of this new bridge to new ramps to I-90.

This resignalling resulted in closure of the two signal cabins that controlled movements in the station area – Adelaide Station Cabin ( near Morphett St bridge ) and Wye Cabin, at the divergence of the South and Port / North lines.

Starting July 6, 2010, the bridge was temporarily closed to all traffic ( closure started on July 19 for pedestrians and bikes ) for two months, to permit the laying of streetcar tracks for an extension of the Portland Streetcar system.

The bridge over Darby river was cut, leaving no vehicle access to Tidal river, leading to the evacuation of all visitors by Helicopter over the following days, and the closure of the southern section of the park.

Since its closure to traffic in 1979, the bridge has become a popular site for recreation and fishing.

* March 27 – A runaway freight train accident in icy weather which destroys the railway bridge of L ' Estanguet near Accous brings about closure of the Pau – Canfranc railway line as a trans-Pyreneen route between France and Spain.

In spite of the closure of most of France's tram systems in earlier years, a fast growing number of France's major cities have modern tram or light rail networks, including Paris, Lyon ( Lyon having the biggest one ), Toulouse, Montpellier, Saint-Étienne, Strasbourg and Nantes.

Monmouth's main railway station, known as Monmouth Troy, was a coal distribution depot and a base for heavy goods vehicles for many years after its closure as a part of the rail network, but the building has now been dismantled and re-erected at Winchcombe railway station on the Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway.

This operated for many years as Monmouth Sawmills and Gas Works after its closure as part of the rail network.

Following a period of closure during 1993 when the line was converted to use the four rail electrical system of the London Underground, the ownership of Waterloo & City line was transferred to the Underground on 1 April 1994.

Harvey, a former employee at Huddersfield railway station, was instrumental in the creation of the protest train against the intended closure of the Settle to Carlisle rail line.

Since closure of the Kemble to Cirencester branch line in 1964 the town has become one of the largest in the region without its own rail station.

This was challenged by local residents, but closure was agreed in February 1955 for 15 June 1955, although the line closed on 29 May due to a rail strike.

Independent until its final closure, it formed a standard gauge rail link between the village and Chathill Station on the East Coast Main Line ( Wright, 1988 ).

The " Beeching Plan " was published in 1963 and was adopted by the Government ; it resulted in the closure of a third of the rail network and the scrapping of a third of a million freight wagons.

The closure of the line in 1969 left the Scottish Borders area without any rail links.

Since the closure of the rival Great Central Main Line in the 1960s, the Midland has been the only direct main-line rail link between London and the East Midlands and South Yorkshire.

Originally made from Bessemer steel, following the closure of the Moss Bay Steelworks steel for the plant was brought by rail from Teesside.

During the electrification of the West Coast Main Line by British Railways, Birmingham Snow Hill handled most of the rail traffic through the city, but the subsequent Beeching closure programme in the 1960s took the view that Snow Hill station was unnecessary, and all services were switched to New Street and Moor Street.

This was the beginning of the end of the Boston & Maine corporate image, and the start of major changes, such as the labor issues which caused the strikes of 1986 and 1987, and drastic cost cutting such as the 1990 closure of B & M's Mechanicville, New York, site, the largest rail yard and shop facilities on the B & M system.

Aping the widescale closures in Britain ( the Beeching Axe ), he presided over closure of significant sections of the rail network which by 1962 included

* The airport whose demise was caused by rail absence a critique of the Mirabel Airport closure

With the closure of the rail terminus, Vauxhall Bridge's main source of revenue was visitors to the Vauxhall Gardens pleasure park.

The closure of Ennis station proved to be only temporary ; twenty rail services per day are now provided to and from Limerick City, from where connecting rail services are available to both Dublin and Cork.

Temporary bus services operated during the closure, of which rail replacement route ELW remained in service until the ELL fully opened on 23 May 2010.

After the closure of the Stirling-Alloa-Dunfermline 1968 rail links to the town did not exist for 40 years up until 2008.

However, after the closure of Rugeley A power station and Lea Hall Colliery and reduction in rail freight, it became possible to open up the Rugeley to Walsall line for passenger traffic.

Following the closure of rail lines in the area during the privatization of the nation's railways in the early 1990s, the city's rail links were re-established with the opening of the provincially-funded Sefecha line in 1997.