Garden Bridge

[DulwichFox]

Any Bridge across the Thames needs to be practical in easing road traffic.

A Garden Bridge would have no practical use.. and it's upkeep would cost a fortune .

.. So how much would it cost to visit.. ?5.00 ? ?10.00 ?

DulwichFox

[womanofdulwich]

The Garden Bridge will be another tourist attraction and attract even more people in making it even worse than it is now. Bah humbug- we want jobs for young people to give them skills and a future and I just dont see this as helping beyond short term construction.

[Jeremy]

But London tourism keeps an awful lot of people in work...

[LondonMix]

The Peckham Coal line might get funding from the Mayor. Its discussed extensively on the GLA website and is also part of the New Southwark Plan.

I like the idea of a garden bridge

civilservant Wrote:

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> the garden bridge is being compared to the NY High

> Line - but the Peckham Coal Line would be a closer

> analogy, and that's not getting any Mayoral money.

> Boris may have got rid of bendy buses, but he

> replaced them with those ugly and pokey (have you

> ever gone upstairs on them?) fake Routemasters,

> also designed by the ubiquitous and over-rated

> Heatherwick

>

> I will chiefly remember him as the man who caused

> my daily commute to work to double in length from

> one hour to two

[Michael Palaeologus]

Tourism creates jobs for young people. The more tourists come to the Southwark's South Bank the more their spend ripples through the community. The docklands have gone, no more horny handed Dockers earning an honest crust. Tourism and leisure must suffice.

The new Routemasters are not my favourite bus, they are claustrophobic, but then so were the old Routemasters. Designed to do the same job, they are quite similar. Odd that.

The problem with traffic is that it grows to fill the available space. Build another road bridge and it will soon become full, no relief. A pedestrian/ cycle bridge will at least allow traffic and people to be separated. That it is also a new park for London is a bonus.

[civilservant]

no problem with garden bridges in general, just this one.

there is a much more pressing need for more river crossings in unglamorous East London, and the procurement process for this one stinks.

as for pedestrian-only bridges, we've already pretty well served on that stretch of the Thames.

[Beej]

I think it's beautiful; nowt "shit-heap" about it if the mockups are anything to go by.

It's sounding like a bunch of typically boring old moany fuddy duddys in here/ Live a little I say. I love a useless vanity project. It looks fun.

....Then again I'd wouldn't say no to extending the bakerloo line to Camberwell as an alternative.

[JohnL]

Sadiq Khan has referred it to a review - led by Margaret Hodge

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-37432959

Could be the beginning of the end.

[DulwichFox]

We do not need a Garden Bridge to attract tourists to the area.. Millions come here every year.

With increasing urbanisation of London, some of these were preserved as freely accessible open space and became public parks with the introduction of the Crown Lands Act 1851.

There are today eight parks formally described by this name and they cover almost 2,000 hectares (4,900 acres) of land in Greater London.

The money could well be utilised elsewhere..

Trees on a bridge? do these trees not have roots? As trees grow.. they get heavier.

Trees with shallow roots get blown down.. on a bridge.. into the river.. ??

Just dont make ANy sense at all.

DulwichFox

[Earl Aelfheah]

?20m wasted. Nice one Boris https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/oct/11/london-garden-bridge-report-national-audit-office-public-money

[JohnL]

Costs to the taxpayer no more than the Millenium Bridge

... but that's fun and useful and open all the time.

[nxjen]

Shame about tax payers money already spent but finally a result

http://www.london-se1.co.uk/news/view/9361?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=facebook

[rendelharris]

nxjen Wrote:

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> Shame about tax payers money already spent but

> finally a result

>

> http://www.london-se1.co.uk/news/view/9361?utm_sou

> rce=dlvr.it&utm_medium=facebook

Excellent. Now how about a proper enquiry into Boris Johnson's corrupt role in all this and surcharging him for the loss to the public purse?

[KidKruger]

No accountability is an obvious feature of this charade.

[JohnL]

I suspect it was going to be a private area for parties which was sometimes open to the public.

[DulwichFox]

JohnL Wrote:

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> I suspect it was going to be a private area for

> parties which was sometimes open to the public.

Or ?20.00 p.p. to walk across.

Foxy

[Blah Blah]

Right decision to drop this project. Too expensive for now.

[Earl Aelfheah]

Johnson is a fecking disgrace