Paul Scott wrote:
"Tony Polson" wrote in message
What? Don't they know who you are?


Looking at the suggested bridge style, and the location, presumably there
will be a resulting saving from never opening Tower Bridge again?

:-)

Paul S


So, to summarise: Boris is reanimating someone's pet project from the
1990s, but since the Millennium Bridge is now providing a link in the
area it was originally planned, it needs to be downstream of Tower
Bridge, which means it either has to lift or be high enough for shipping
to pass underneath, be longer because the river is wider there and you
can do this for £80m and fund it by incorporating sufficient property in
the design to cover the costs by sale?

Colour me unconvinced. Boris has actually canned *two* bridges
downstream from the Tower so far, the TGB and the proposal for a
cycle/pedestrian bridge from Rotherhithe to the Isle of Dogs, which
itself was in the ballpark cost range (£70m, if memory serves, without
having £70m worth of buildings on it).

BTW, there was supposed to be a report on the feasibility of Boris's
last enthusiasm, the Thames Estuary Airport, at the end of March.
Nothing has happened there, and I predict nothing will happen here, either.

Tom