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	At both Gates, there is a passenger ferry to allow direct access from one bank to the other (ie, across [[Endless Street]] at both points where it meets the River). Whether or not Ankh-Morpork has its song equivalent to ''Ferry 'Cross The Mersey'' (in response to a [[Multiverse\|multiversal]] prompt) is not yet recorded.		At both Gates, there is a passenger ferry to allow direct access from one bank to the other (ie, across [[Endless Street]] at both points where it meets the River). Whether or not Ankh-Morpork has its song equivalent to ''Ferry 'Cross The Mersey'' (in response to a [[Multiverse\|multiversal]] prompt) is not yet recorded.


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	As with the River Gate which guards the far wider estuary end of the Ankh, the gate is only closed in time of great city emergency, such as a massive fire requiring the water level in the Ankh to rise so that any conflagration is eventually smothered and not so much ''extinguished'' as ''poisoned''. The last time this was needed was quite a few decades before the consensus present, and is described in {{COM}}. For this to work, though, it would require the River Gate to be closed completely and pretty nearly watertight, whilst the Water Gate is used to regulate just the right amount of flow to enter the city so as to sicken the blaze. (In cities with less solid and polluted rivers, the word ''dampen'' might be validly employed).		As with the River Gate which guards the far wider estuary end of the Ankh, the gate is only closed in time of great city emergency, such as a massive fire requiring the water level in the Ankh to rise so that any conflagration is eventually smothered and not so much ''extinguished'' as ''poisoned''. The last time this was needed was quite a few decades before the consensus present, and is described in {{COM}}. For this to work, though, it would require the River Gate to be closed completely and pretty nearly watertight, whilst the Water Gate is used to regulate just the right amount of flow to enter the city so as to sicken the blaze. (In cities with less solid and polluted rivers, the word ''dampen'' might be validly employed).

	At both Gates, there is a passenger ferry to allow direct access from one bank to the other (ie, across [[Endless Street]] at both points where it meets the River). Whether ~~in response to a [[Multiverse\|multiversal]] prompt,~~ Ankh-Morpork has its ~~sung~~ equivalent to ''Ferry 'Cross The Mersey'' is not yet recorded.		At both Gates, there is a passenger ferry to allow direct access from one bank to the other (ie, across [[Endless Street]] at both points where it meets the River). Whether or not Ankh-Morpork has its song equivalent to ''Ferry 'Cross The Mersey'' (in response to a [[Multiverse\|multiversal]] prompt) is not yet recorded.

	~~[[Category:Streets of Ankh-Morpork]]~~
	~~[[Category: Gates of Ankh-Morpork]]~~

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This is one of the two strategic gaps in the city wall of [[Ankh-Morpork]], where the city and its encircling walls are bisected to allow for the passage of the River Ankh.

Situated at the hubwards end of the city, the Water Gate utilises a mole, or pier head, and a system of floating barricades which may in time of emergency be moved into place to completely block the river from bank to bank. Most of the time, though, the gap is left open to allow for the free movement of river traffic and commerce, such as the [[Zoons|Zoon]]-crewed barges floating down from [[Zemphis]], higher up the river.

It is also stated that much of the city's coal and iron ore imports from points further away, such as [[Lancre]], also arrive by the river route.

In the opening paragraphs of {{TT}}, we learn that a [[City Watch|Watch guard]] is always posted here by night to act as a not-very-efficient customs point to quiz vessels arriving during darkness as to their contents. As Mr [[Pin]] and [[Mr. Tulip]] were able to smuggle [[Charlie (The Truth)|Charlie]] in this way, we know the Watch guard is not a particularly efficient one.

As with the River Gate which guards the far wider estuary end of the Ankh, the gate is only closed in time of great city emergency, such as a massive fire requiring the water level in the Ankh to rise so that any conflagration is eventually smothered and not so much ''extinguished'' as ''poisoned''. The last time this was needed was quite a few decades before the consensus present, and is described in {{COM}}. For this to work, though, it would require the River Gate to be closed completely and pretty nearly watertight, whilst the Water Gate is used to regulate just the right amount of flow to enter the city so as to sicken the blaze. (In cities with less solid and polluted rivers, the word ''dampen'' might be validly employed).

At both Gates, there is a passenger ferry to allow direct access from one bank to the other (ie, across [[Endless Street]] at both points where it meets the River). Whether in response to a [[Multiverse|multiversal]] prompt, Ankh-Morpork has its sung equivalent to ''Ferry 'Cross The Mersey'' is not yet recorded.

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	At both Gates, there is a passenger ferry to allow direct access from one bank to the other (ie, across [[Endless Street]] at both points where it meets the River). Whether in response to a [[Multiverse\|multiversal]] prompt, Ankh-Morpork has its sung equivalent to ''Ferry 'Cross The Mersey'' is not yet recorded.		At both Gates, there is a passenger ferry to allow direct access from one bank to the other (ie, across [[Endless Street]] at both points where it meets the River). Whether in response to a [[Multiverse\|multiversal]] prompt, Ankh-Morpork has its sung equivalent to ''Ferry 'Cross The Mersey'' is not yet recorded.

			[[Category:Streets of Ankh-Morpork]]
			[[Category: Gates of Ankh-Morpork]]