On Thu, 21 Jul 2005 10:37:38 -0700, davek wrote:

David Hansen wrote:
as the so-called Thames Gateway Bridge clearly illustrates.

Thames Gateway Bridge? Isn't that the one they started building a few
years ago and then gave up?

The bits of it they actually built are still visible - on the docklands
road near the Beckton Savacentre, right by the old gasworks where they
filmed Full Metal Jacket. (Well, they were still there last time I looked,
but come to think of it, it's four years since I moved out of east
London... the area was pretty much derelict at the time but is by now
probably a thriving residential estate for "executives"...)
The gasworks site and the bridge are still there.

A huge new Tescos plus associated shops has been built, plus new access
roads so there will be housing there soon.
We do rides there on occasion, and always stop to comment on Full Metal
Jacket.

There is a new path implemented, which runs from Tescos to the river at
the gasworks piers (where the coal was unloaded) then past the sewage farm
and the up Barking Creek.
Last time I was in the area the path was not open.

I might be starting a rumour, but I think a pedestrian bridge over Barking
Creek is on the cards.

If you are in the area, make sure to go east of the Creek and visit
Dagenham City Farm. Excellent cheap food, big roast dinners on Sunday.