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Brentwood Live<\/em> writes:<\/p>\n The 133-year-old west London bridge has been closed to traffic since April 2019 when cracks appeared in its pedestals.<\/p>\n It then closed to pedestrian, cyclist and river traffic in August\u00a0after a heatwave caused the faults to \u201csignificantly increase\u201d.<\/p>\n Fed up residents projected a message onto the bridge on Saturday to mark the six-month anniversary of its full closure.<\/p>\n Billed as the \u201cUK\u2019s biggest Valentine\u2019s Day card\u201d, the message reads: \u201cBroken Hearts. Broken Promises. Broken Lives. Broken Bridge.\u201d…<\/p>\n Helen Pennant-Rea, chairwoman of the Hammersmith Bridge SOS Residents\u2019 Group, said the \u201cValentine\u2019s Day card\u201d was intended to be a \u201cfun and entertaining way to draw attention to what remains a serious issue\u201d….<\/p>\n Hammersmith and Fulham Council, which owns the bridge, wrote a letter to the Prime Minister in August stating the estimated cost to make it safe and \u201cavoid a potential catastrophic failure\u201d is \u00a346 million.<\/p>\n