I write regarding your story concerning the closure of Magdalen Bridge on May morning, due to worries over the cost to the emergency services (Tuesday’s Oxford Mail).
May morning is enjoyed by up to 30,000 people from all over the world, and access to the bridge is an integral part of the celebrations.
Closing the bridge due to the fact that a few students may drunkenly decide to go for an early morning swim has got to be overkill, considering the thousands of people whose enjoyment will be effected.
Surely the simple solution is to keep the bridge open, and get Oxford University and the ‘polyversity’ to inform their students that, if they wish to jump from the bridge, then they will be billed for the medical costs involved.
Students should be told that if they don’t pay, they will be expelled.
That way everybody can enjoy our unique celebration without the town being divided in two.
Or is that too simple? DARRAN BEAL St Bernards Road Oxford
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