New Zealand's pursuit of 327 always looked a bridge too far but Johnson smothered them, nipping out danger men Jesse Ryder and Ross Taylor and keeping his foot on the gas.
Viewed from across the river, it looks like a bridge leading nowhere.
This looks like a bridge to take the weight of the enclosure wall, and if so fixes the position of this wall exactly.
Its middle section looks like a bridge, but its simple concrete towers, the tallest in Sweden, and the cables strung from them, are more elegant than mighty.
There is a beautiful mosque to look, and a bridge where you can look out and see people living in river housing.
Victoria Beckham's snappy tuxedo suit at the British Fashion Awards (BFAs) made all the frilly frocks look a bit bridge-and-tunnel for a Monday night.
McCartney and Jane Asher had looked good together, a contrast with Mick Jagger and Marianne Faithfull: they looked like a bridge between the radicalism of the times and an older public who both celebrated, and were appalled by, what was going on.
If they lose, a nine-point difference looks a very hard gap to bridge.
But for some of those companies, what looked like a bridge to the future has come to seem like a gangplank.
