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I cycle across Tower Bridge every day. This is a snippet of my route back. The camera ran out of battery - I’ll get my full route tomorrow.

It seems that a lot of people have never seen Tower Bridge open and close. So here it is, sped up so you don’t get bored.

If you live in London or New York, and been down to either of their most recognisable bridges recently, you’ll have noticed a strange sight bursting out of the ground. The Telectroscope connects the Tower and Brooklyn bridges together through a tube of light, allowing people at both ends to see each other.

Hardly anyone knows [...]

I love those moments in cities when the normal rhythm of the daily grind is interrupted, and in the momentary disruption a different city shines through. As if someone paused the record, allowing a simple discussion to take the place of the loud drone. The lifting of Tower Bridge is one of those events, a [...]