Clockwork Drawbridges

Author: Breakfast

Being the maritime trade city that it is, it is vital to Tandem's economy that trade ships can traverse its many canals. So vital, in fact, that transport over water is always given priority in traffic. Virtually all bridges over canals in Tandem are drawbridges. These bridges will always be raised for a ship, regardless of any trafic jams it might cause. The type of ship doesn't matter in this. A pleasure yacht would be given priority just as a barge would.

This means that traffic jams in the first and second district are not entirely uncommon, despite their being less populated. The bridges are all operated on site by the Leveemen, usually from a little watch-post beside the bridge. Most bridges fold up from the middle, and occasionally a crazy driver loses their patience and tries to go past the trafic barrier and jump the bridge as it's rising. As you can imagine, this often ends with a splash.