However many tentative, well-meaning gestures Claire and Jamie make, the bridge between them keeps crumbling.
(Eventually, Ellet shrewdly lobbied Congress to make the bridge a postal route, thereby nullifying the court's decision).
The Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, believes that the hi-tech lighting could make the bridge into a focal point for the capital in 2012.
Even in 50 years' time, he thinks, there will not be enough traffic to make the bridge pay.In this section Altogether now.
But at the introduction of the proposed design before the Council, some members complained that it lacked features to make the bridge more like a memorial.
The state is close to the end of a three-year deck replacement program to try to make the bridge functional for a few more years.
The trick was to use light to make the bridge shift between the two positions in a controllable way.
The petition calls on Bristol City Council to force GVA and the Temple Quay Management Company to "make the bridge safe for both cyclists and pedestrians immediately".
But Mr Evans said he believed the best option was to continue with a high charge, collect a fund and then make the bridge free.
