A living bridge
 

The Evening Standard is reporting that the Mayor is looking into reviving
plans for a residential/commercial bridge, albeit locating around Silvertown
and Greenwich. It is hoped to be financed by selling the locations on it.

http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standa...mes/article.do

I doubt this will exactly replace the Woolwich ferry though!

A living bridge
 

On Tue, 5 May 2009, Tim Roll-Pickering wrote:

The Evening Standard is reporting that the Mayor is looking into reviving
plans for a residential/commercial bridge, albeit locating around Silvertown
and Greenwich. It is hoped to be financed by selling the locations on it.

http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standa...mes/article.do

I saw this in thelondonpaper. Mostly i was furious about how all the years
i've been suggesting this, i've been ignored, but as soon as that blonde
imbecile comes out with the same idea, the press is all over him - just
because he's mayor! So unfair. The best bit in the article i read was
where Boris was quoted as saying it would be "somewhere in central London"
- yes, Boris, given that that's where the river is, not a huge revelation.

But then i started wondering about building this across the Lea, say in
Tottenham. It wouldn't be very long, but big enough for a kebab shop and a
garage.

80 million seems very cheap for a bridge.

tom

--
Thinking about it, history begins now -- sarah

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Tom Anderson wrote:
On Tue, 5 May 2009, Tim Roll-Pickering wrote:
The Evening Standard is reporting that the Mayor is looking into reviving
plans for a residential/commercial bridge, albeit locating around Silvertown
and Greenwich. It is hoped to be financed by selling the locations on it.

http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standa...mes/article.do

I saw this in thelondonpaper. Mostly i was furious about how all the years
i've been suggesting this, i've been ignored, but as soon as that blonde
imbecile comes out with the same idea, the press is all over him - just
because he's mayor! So unfair.


What? Don't they know who you are?

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"Tony Polson" wrote in message
...
Tom Anderson wrote:
On Tue, 5 May 2009, Tim Roll-Pickering wrote:
The Evening Standard is reporting that the Mayor is looking into
reviving
plans for a residential/commercial bridge, albeit locating around
Silvertown
and Greenwich. It is hoped to be financed by selling the locations on
it.

http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standa...mes/article.do

I saw this in thelondonpaper. Mostly i was furious about how all the years
i've been suggesting this, i've been ignored, but as soon as that blonde
imbecile comes out with the same idea, the press is all over him - just
because he's mayor! So unfair.

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

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In article ,
(Paul Scott) wrote:

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

How often does it open these days, anyway?

--
Colin Rosenstiel

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wrote in message
...
In article ,
(Paul Scott) wrote:

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

How often does it open these days, anyway?


I don't know the current frequency, but I believe it is manned 24/7 and
maintained to allow for opening at any time, but normally vessels have to
give 24 hours notice. They have cruise ships and other warships moored
alongside the Belfast fairly regularly.

Paul S

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In message ,
writes
In article ,
(Paul Scott) wrote:

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

How often does it open these days, anyway?

More often than you might think.

We're told between 15 and 20 times a week, though that varies widely.
You can get a list of forthcoming lifts at
http://www.towerbridge.org.uk/TBE/EN/BridgeLiftTimes/

This is often the highlight of people's time in London, I can tell you!
--
Ian Jelf, MITG
Birmingham, UK

Registered Blue Badge Tourist Guide for London and the Heart of England
http://www.bluebadge.demon.co.uk

A living bridge
 

wrote:
In article ,
(Paul Scott) wrote:

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

How often does it open these days, anyway?

A few times a day.
http://www.towerbridge.org.uk/TBE/EN/BridgeLiftTimes/

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In article ,
wrote:
In article ,
(Paul Scott) wrote:

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

How often does it open these days, anyway?

http://www.towerbridge.org.uk/TBE/EN/BridgeLiftTimes/

Lifts can be booked with 24 hours notice, so there may be more to
come. But it looks like 2-3 times a day, on average (there are 9
booked for the week staring tomorrow).


--
:wq

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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