On its opening day, the London Millennium Bridge experienced unexpected swaying due to the large number of people crossing it. A new study finally explains the Millennium Bridge 'wobble' by looking at ...

A natural phenomenon rather than a design fault caused London's Millennium Bridge to wobble and sway, forcing its closure just two days after opening in 2000. The elegant pedestrian walkway was ...

London’s Millennium Bridge is notorious for its “wobble” when it first opened in June 2000, as thousands of pedestrians streamed across. Londoners nicknamed it “Wobbly Bridge.” The accepted ...

About 2,000 volunteers braved rainy weather on Wednesday night to walk across a foot bridge over the Thames River that was closed soon after opening because it wobbled too much. Led by Southwark Mayor ...

The dangerous wobbling of pedestrian bridges could be reduced by using biomechanically inspired models of pedestrian response to bridge motion and a mathematical formula to estimate the critical crowd ...

Wobbly footbridges can both delight and terrify pedestrians. Now, researchers in the USA and Russia have developed a model showing how an apparently stable bridge can suddenly show alarming, ...

LONDON, Feb. 22 -- London's bridge is not falling down. And that's official. Two years and two months after the rest of the world celebrated the millennium, the City of London on Friday finally ...

When London’s Millennium Footbridge opened 18 years ago, the 1,066-foot span swayed so badly it was closed almost immediately. Ever since, engineers who study human locomotion have puzzled over a ...

LONDON, England (Reuters) -- London's swaying Millennium Bridge will cost at least five million pounds ($7.13 million) to make safe, bridge operators said Thursday. The multimillion-pound footbridge ...