[OT] Can you walk across the flood barrier on Dartford Creek?
 

Well,

Can you?

It's he

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=51.4...=UTF8&t=k&z=16

And it clearly has some sort of way across it, but i have no idea if it's
public. Google maps has no idea, of course. My OS map doesn't show any
kind of footpath or similar across it. OpenStreetMap, though, shows a
'track', a red dashed line, across it:

http://openstreetmap.org/?lat=51.478...16&layers=B0FT

Does anyoen have any idea if i would be able to walk, and wheel a bike,
across here?

If not, i think i'd have to follow the river, and then the Cray, up to
Barnes Cray, cross at a weir, and then take the A206 to get across the
Dart/Darenth. Which would be a bit of a detour.

tom

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[OT] Can you walk across the flood barrier on Dartford Creek?
 

Tom Anderson wrote:
Well,

Can you?

It's he

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=51.4...=UTF8&t=k&z=16

And it clearly has some sort of way across it, but i have no idea if
it's public. Google maps has no idea, of course. My OS map doesn't
show any kind of footpath or similar across it. OpenStreetMap,
though, shows a 'track', a red dashed line, across it:

http://openstreetmap.org/?lat=51.478...16&layers=B0FT

Does anyoen have any idea if i would be able to walk, and wheel a
bike, across here?

The normal position of the barrier is way up in the air, like this:
http://www.tuesdaynightclub.co.uk/T0...k/Pict3864.jpg

I very much doubt if the public are given access to the barrier. Certainly
there is no access to the Barking Creek barrier, and that is of a similar
design.
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Richard J.
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[OT] Can you walk across the flood barrier on Dartford Creek?
 

On Sat, 10 May 2008, Richard J. wrote:

Tom Anderson wrote:

Can you?

The normal position of the barrier is way up in the air, like this:
http://www.tuesdaynightclub.co.uk/T0...k/Pict3864.jpg

I very much doubt if the public are given access to the barrier.
Certainly there is no access to the Barking Creek barrier, and that is
of a similar design.

Bugger.

Oh well, huge detour it is.

Unless i take a dinghy with me.

tom

--
For one thing at least is almost certain about the future, namely,
that very much of it will be such as we should call incredible. --
Olaf Stapledon

[OT] Can you walk across the flood barrier on Dartford Creek?
 

Richard J. wrote:
Tom Anderson wrote:
Well,

Can you?

It's he

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=51.4...=UTF8&t=k&z=16

And it clearly has some sort of way across it, but i have no idea if
it's public. Google maps has no idea, of course. My OS map doesn't
show any kind of footpath or similar across it. OpenStreetMap,
though, shows a 'track', a red dashed line, across it:

http://openstreetmap.org/?lat=51.478...16&layers=B0FT

Does anyoen have any idea if i would be able to walk, and wheel a
bike, across here?

The normal position of the barrier is way up in the air, like this:
http://www.tuesdaynightclub.co.uk/T0...k/Pict3864.jpg

That is also the position in the original photo: you can tell by the shadow.

Can you walk across the flood barrier on Dartford Creek?
 

On May 10, 11:37 pm, "Richard J." wrote:
http://www.tuesdaynightclub.co.uk/T0...k/Pict3864.jpg

Thats a very expensive barrier just to connect an industrial estate to
some farm tracks. Strange.

B2993

Can you walk across the flood barrier on Dartford Creek?
 

On Mon, 12 May 2008, Boltar wrote:

On May 10, 11:37 pm, "Richard J." wrote:

http://www.tuesdaynightclub.co.uk/T0...k/Pict3864.jpg

Thats a very expensive barrier just to connect an industrial estate to
some farm tracks. Strange.

I think the main point of it is protect Dartford from being flooded -
hence the title 'barrier'.

You could also argue that it's a very expensive barrier just to protect
Dartford from being flooded, of course!

tom

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