The Shard

[DulwichFox]

The Shard officially opens today...

When it opens to the Public it will cost ?25.00 to see the view from the Viewing Gallery.

They estimate there will be 1,000,000 spectators a year.

You can get around paying this money by buying your own appartment...

Estimated cost ?50M.

The shard has approx 40 parking spaces.

Bargain..

Fox

[Loz]

25 Quid??? It's only about 17 quid to go up the Burj Khalifa and at least that has the honour of being the highest building in the world.

[StraferJack]

can't exactly have a pint afterwards tho can you Loz?

It's a tall building - it would be nice to see view from the top but I'm not paying money to do it here, NY, or Dubai. If some people want to .....

[PeckhamRose]

I do. Can't wait. At least you have an idea of what you're getting for ?25. Unlike some theatre at the moment!

[DulwichFox]

Well you can pay ?25.00 and if your eyesight is good enough...

.... you might be able to see your car being towed away...

Foxy.

[StraferJack]

Fox

The building sits on top of one of London's main train stations. Why would you want to drive there?

[DulwichFox]

StraferJack Wrote:

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> Fox

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> The building sits on top of one of London's main

> train stations. Why would you want to drive there?

I think the joke was wasted on you...

The fact that you can see for I don't know how many miles.. would not matter where you parked it.

Like Camberwell..???

Why do folk here take eveything so litterally ?

Having said that....

Having worked in that area for most of the last 20 years (pre 2008)

I can assure you many people do try and park there and regularly get clamped or removed..

Fox.

[Loz]

StraferJack Wrote:

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> can't exactly have a pint afterwards tho can you

> Loz?

Actually, you can. Alcohol is fairly widely available in Dubai. Mostly in hotels, but you are never far from a hotel in Dubai.

[katie1997]

TOP TIP instead of paying a meagre ?25 for one poxy viewing, you could always PAY EVEN MORE and book into the hotel which takes up floors 35-50 (I think) of the Shard and enjoy the view from dusk till dawn...

I cannot imagine what it would be like going up to the top floor (95?), makes me shiver just thinking about it.

[Jeremy]

50M sure is a lot of cash. Although there are only ten of them, split over 13 floors, so they're going to be pretty damn big (maybe 8 times the size of an average terrace house).

[Alan Medic]

Why is there a new thread on this subject? Two if you count Ms.Curtain.

[Salsaboy]

If you live in one of the apartments does that make you a Shardeen?

[Annette Curtain]

Alan Medic Wrote:

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> Why is there a new thread on this subject? Two if

> you count Ms.Curtain.

Actually, come to think about it....

My thread isn't about The Shard per se

Though my particular post is. You can post whatever you "come to think about" on that thread

(do feel free to add your own a.c.t.t.a.i's)

Hope that clears things up

Netts

[Jeremy]

Ken Livingstone has been saying that it's brought jobs to "one of the most run down and deprived areas of London". Really??

[StraferJack]

Bermondsey st notwithstanding, that north end of southwark has some well grim areas. So from that perspective that statement stands

From the rich and wealthy end of the things, I only have to mention anything about london bridge area (not the station) and I may as well be talking about mars to many of my colleagues

[Jeremy]

Heading more towards tower bridge and bermondsey it can get a bit grim, but the closer vicinity of London bridge has always seemed perfectly fine to me.