No way that will cost £10m, I’d say more quadruple that and it’ll take a lot longer than planned
I will cheer on any connectivity around here. Need some between east and south east too
Lovely. Get it built
Great news. That part of the area is poorly connected.
The Twelvetrees project is going to change the area so much over the next 20+ years. Going to be unrecognisable. Area needs it too.
If I got my locations right, that is near Cody Dock. That is actually a lovely stretch down there and Cody Dock is a cool place to visit. It’s just a bit out the way and I think the river walkway ends at Cody Dock. I go running down there sometimes as it’s a nice chilled route and the river is lovely especially if I catch the high tide.
Tower Hamlets council is more likely to get a bridge built in Bangladesh than London. I’ll put money on this not happening
The amount it costs and takes in the UK to build even a footbridge just baffles me sometimes.
And still no replacement for Hammersmith bridge
What’s wrong with that grey one?
In 10 years they’ll have spend £10 million just on the planning application. We are unable to build a single thing these days.
Good luck getting tower Hamlets paying towards maintenance judging by the state of the lifts of the Woolwich tunnel.
Am I dreaming? My favourite place for a walk will get even better ❤️🙌
> Papers presented to the cabinet said there is currently no way to cross the River Lea between the A13 at Canning Town and Twelvetrees Crescent at Bromley-by-Bow – a distance of over a mile.
A whole mile! Those poor people.
The mock photo would cost 3m out of that.
But on the serious side, east London definitely needs more bridges. Too many people going on the other tunnels.
Btw, that is not the Thames but river Lea. Read the article folks.
EDIT: meaning, it is not connecting south and north, but two separate parts of east
>Papers presented to the cabinet said there is currently no way to cross the River Lea between the A13 at Canning Town and Twelvetrees Crescent at Bromley-by-Bow – a distance of over a mile.
Wait a minute, what about these two footbridges? Clearly connected to an industrial park on the Newham side and empty lots on the Tower Hamlets side, but surely it;s easier to use these 2 and get them connected, or am I missing something?
No way it will be 10m.
This has been planned for years and approved well over a year ago when I originally saw an article about it back then from the same site. Only thing thats changed is that funding is now committed, which councils have already said they’ll commit it because some local S106 funding was already for this. So not much has changed actually.
It is nice to have a new footbridge there though. We need a few more. I think its about time to get rid of the complexities which requires things like this bridge has hydraulics so it can lift up a bit to allow taller boats to pass through. Stuff like that adds lots to costs which is why much fewer things gets built than we should have. Like how any new East London bridges must be designed to allow ships of almost any size through including cruise ships which just makes them unfeasible to build. Scrap rules like that and allow us to build a few East London pedestrian/cycle Thames crossings.
Is there any cycle provision?
People want to be connected with tower hamlets?!
I kid… kinda.
Can’t find how much that City Island one cost but I’m guessing 15 to 20 million 10 years ago money because it can lift up and down.
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No way that will cost £10m, I’d say more quadruple that and it’ll take a lot longer than planned
I will cheer on any connectivity around here. Need some between east and south east too
Lovely. Get it built
Great news. That part of the area is poorly connected.
The Twelvetrees project is going to change the area so much over the next 20+ years. Going to be unrecognisable. Area needs it too.
If I got my locations right, that is near Cody Dock. That is actually a lovely stretch down there and Cody Dock is a cool place to visit. It’s just a bit out the way and I think the river walkway ends at Cody Dock. I go running down there sometimes as it’s a nice chilled route and the river is lovely especially if I catch the high tide.
Tower Hamlets council is more likely to get a bridge built in Bangladesh than London. I’ll put money on this not happening
The amount it costs and takes in the UK to build even a footbridge just baffles me sometimes.
And still no replacement for Hammersmith bridge
What’s wrong with that grey one?
In 10 years they’ll have spend £10 million just on the planning application. We are unable to build a single thing these days.
Good luck getting tower Hamlets paying towards maintenance judging by the state of the lifts of the Woolwich tunnel.
Am I dreaming? My favourite place for a walk will get even better ❤️🙌
> Papers presented to the cabinet said there is currently no way to cross the River Lea between the A13 at Canning Town and Twelvetrees Crescent at Bromley-by-Bow – a distance of over a mile.
A whole mile! Those poor people.
The mock photo would cost 3m out of that.
But on the serious side, east London definitely needs more bridges. Too many people going on the other tunnels.
Btw, that is not the Thames but river Lea. Read the article folks.
EDIT: meaning, it is not connecting south and north, but two separate parts of east
https://preview.redd.it/jqk73h2qufyf1.png?width=1237&format=png&auto=webp&s=ccce34a7af1abc77778b83152fdbacbacf5050d7
>Papers presented to the cabinet said there is currently no way to cross the River Lea between the A13 at Canning Town and Twelvetrees Crescent at Bromley-by-Bow – a distance of over a mile.
Wait a minute, what about these two footbridges? Clearly connected to an industrial park on the Newham side and empty lots on the Tower Hamlets side, but surely it;s easier to use these 2 and get them connected, or am I missing something?
No way it will be 10m.
This has been planned for years and approved well over a year ago when I originally saw an article about it back then from the same site. Only thing thats changed is that funding is now committed, which councils have already said they’ll commit it because some local S106 funding was already for this. So not much has changed actually.
It is nice to have a new footbridge there though. We need a few more. I think its about time to get rid of the complexities which requires things like this bridge has hydraulics so it can lift up a bit to allow taller boats to pass through. Stuff like that adds lots to costs which is why much fewer things gets built than we should have. Like how any new East London bridges must be designed to allow ships of almost any size through including cruise ships which just makes them unfeasible to build. Scrap rules like that and allow us to build a few East London pedestrian/cycle Thames crossings.
Is there any cycle provision?
People want to be connected with tower hamlets?!
I kid… kinda.
Can’t find how much that City Island one cost but I’m guessing 15 to 20 million 10 years ago money because it can lift up and down.
This sounds right.
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