The sleek footbridge swayed unexpectedly and excessively under the feet of pedestrians, and it was deemed too dangerous to use. What should have been a mere extension of the millennia-old art of building pedestrian bridges, proved to be a modern engineering embarrassment.
2000年，人们翘首以待的横跨泰晤士河的伦敦千禧大桥落成通车，仅仅3天后，千禧大桥被迫关闭。光滑的人行桥在来来往往的人们脚下出人意料地大幅颤抖，所有人都认为在上面行走太过危险。千禧大桥本该是千年造桥工艺的自然延续，却变成了现代技术难以面对的尴尬。