Sounds like you would celebrate the demolition.
What I am saying to you is that it wasn't the wrong bridge at the time. People didn't have cars in 1912. There were still ships with masts sailing underneath. The reason for the bridge being built was that thousands of workers needed to cross the river to go to work and the ferry that used to take them was over crowded and couldn't always sail due to weather conditions. That unreliability meant people couldn't always get to work on time and the wheels of industry were threatened on either side of the river. That was why the Transporter was built and why it was a massive success initially.
But the world changes. Few, outside sci fi writers would have predicted just how quickly the world moved on as world wars speeded up the incredible pace of change.
But it is an incredible engineering accomplishment. The engineer was linked to Gustav Eiffel whose tower you may well have heard of
- it is a landmark that means home to Teessiders. It consistently gets voted as the favourite landmark. Can we all get our heads together and find a solution to get the bridge working. You might say that it would be like allowing the ravens to fly from The Tower of London.