Quicentennial or quincentenary bridge

MargeS · 05-09-2011 04:35PM #1

Most evenings lately I hear the AA road watch traffic update on the radio and they insist on calling the 'bridge' - the Quincentenary bridge!
I always thought it was Quicentennial bridge?

snubbleste · 05-09-2011 04:39PM

It's Quincentenary Bridge.

celty · 05-09-2011 05:41PM

For a lot of Galwegians, it's still called the 'New Bridge' ... even though it's been there since the mid 1980s.

How a lot of us really wish there was a 'new bridge'!:D

ronnie3585 · 05-09-2011 05:45PM

It will always be the New Bridge to me!

snubbleste · 05-09-2011 05:47PM

A lot of blow-ins refer to it as the slow-moving car park. They refuse to accept the slower pace of life here in the whest :cool:

ErnieBert · 05-09-2011 07:07PM

Do you mean the N6 inner city by-pass western approach Connemara gateway bridge?

KittyeeTrix · 05-09-2011 07:46PM

Always called it that "Cnut of a road" myself...:D

Being serious though, I call it the Quincentennial

martyboy48 · 05-09-2011 08:01PM

I call it the Quincentennial.... Sometimes refer to it as the new bridge

05-09-2011 08:14PM

It's the Quincentennial Bridge, surely? Or just the New Bridge.

dilallio · 05-09-2011 08:43PM

I always called it Quincentennial Bridge but it's Quincentenary.

AA Roadwatch traffic update have even referred to it as the Quintessential Bridge.

hairyfairy00 · 05-09-2011 08:44PM

I always knew it as the Quicentennial, it's only in the last year or so that i've heard people refer to it as the Quincentenary

emptybladder · 05-09-2011 08:46PM

Its most definitely the Quincentenary Bridge. But I also call it the New Bridge.

TheCosmicFrog · 05-09-2011 09:12PM

I've always called it "The Quincentennial".

OP, maybe make a poll?

Also...

Das Kitty · 05-09-2011 09:14PM

On a plaque in the middle it says Quincentenary Bridge.

Used to call it the other myself.

Pure Sound · 05-09-2011 10:06PM

Locally its known as the Quincentennial bridge or the new bridge but officially its called Quincentenary bridge

Its similar to the Forster/Foster St argument, Galwegians have their own way of saying things:D

ethernet · 05-09-2011 10:24PM

I affectionally refer to it as the Quincy. Playing it safe with that one as well

mikemac · 06-09-2011 06:25AM

We Need Community wrote: »

Its similar to the Forster/Foster St argument, Galwegians have their own way of saying things:D

Do people say Foster St?

It's clearly Forster

06-09-2011 10:50AM

mikemac wrote: »

We Need Community wrote: »

Its similar to the Forster/Foster St argument, Galwegians have their own way of saying things:D

Do people say Foster St?

It's clearly Forster

A lot of people I know refer to it as Foster.

antoobrien · 06-09-2011 11:34AM

Deleted User wrote: »

A lot of people I know refer to it as Foster.

Never knew it was Forster St. until I saw it written down.

It's a bit like the saying sangwich instead of sandwich (which I get accused of a lot).

what_traffic · 06-09-2011 01:32PM

We Need Community wrote: »

Locally its known as the Quincentennial bridge or the new bridge but officially its called Quincentenary bridge

Its similar to the Forster/Foster St argument, Galwegians have their own way of saying things:D

So true!

Pure Sound · 06-09-2011 01:48PM

mikemac wrote: »

Do people say Foster St?

It's clearly Forster

Its pronounced locally as Foster St

KevR · 06-09-2011 03:44PM

"The Quince"

JimiWonderDoor 92 · 07-09-2011 12:53AM

The Quincentennial, often here others say new bridege but never the other one.

Also, I say Foster st.

Bit like people I know saying T'rellan instead of tirellan

WesternNight · 07-09-2011 12:58AM

It's always been the Quincentennial to me. Or the Quince.

Also, Foster Street.

Quicentennial or quincentenary bridge

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