Anyone know what the rationale is for having lanes for pedestrians next to the ones for bikes? I would’ve thought most people walking would want to go on the outside walkways where the views are better. Perhaps they want the flexibility of being able to close the walkways for works?
I wonder if they’ll ever find a decent solution to allow people to cross the bridge if can’t easily walk / wheel the distance. I can’t imagine the demand is massively high. From googling I can see there is a [dial-a-ride](https://www.mylondon.news/news/west-london-news/hammersmith-bridge-river-thames-bus-17013620) system in place. Perhaps that should extend that system to also use the [hire buggies](https://www.yo-go.city/) that are already being offered in Fulham, as I imagine in terms of their size / weight that they would be fine to travel in the cycle lanes now in place on the bridge. Could result in a cheaper and more responsive service I imagine?
Just give up on we’ve opening it for car traffic again, make it the garden bridge that Boris wanted to make and turn it into a lovely space for pedestrians and cyclists. That whole stretch of the river is gorgeous. Build it and they will come.
Is the construction finished? Saw it on my way back from the hospital and there were builders everywhere and it said something about a one-way system, so I just went home.
In those wider bits put some benches and some basic wooden planters/flowers there and then we’ll finally have a garden bridge for cheap.
There’s plenty of room now that’s there’s 3 walking paths on the bridge. Some benches and flowers for the people using it would cost an irrelevantly small amount.
Maybe even put the planters along the middle as a divider between the bike and pedestrian paths.
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Is this for real?
Those green fences completely ruin it
Anyone know what the rationale is for having lanes for pedestrians next to the ones for bikes? I would’ve thought most people walking would want to go on the outside walkways where the views are better. Perhaps they want the flexibility of being able to close the walkways for works?
I wonder if they’ll ever find a decent solution to allow people to cross the bridge if can’t easily walk / wheel the distance. I can’t imagine the demand is massively high. From googling I can see there is a [dial-a-ride](https://www.mylondon.news/news/west-london-news/hammersmith-bridge-river-thames-bus-17013620) system in place. Perhaps that should extend that system to also use the [hire buggies](https://www.yo-go.city/) that are already being offered in Fulham, as I imagine in terms of their size / weight that they would be fine to travel in the cycle lanes now in place on the bridge. Could result in a cheaper and more responsive service I imagine?
Just give up on we’ve opening it for car traffic again, make it the garden bridge that Boris wanted to make and turn it into a lovely space for pedestrians and cyclists. That whole stretch of the river is gorgeous. Build it and they will come.
Is the construction finished? Saw it on my way back from the hospital and there were builders everywhere and it said something about a one-way system, so I just went home.
In those wider bits put some benches and some basic wooden planters/flowers there and then we’ll finally have a garden bridge for cheap.
There’s plenty of room now that’s there’s 3 walking paths on the bridge. Some benches and flowers for the people using it would cost an irrelevantly small amount.
Maybe even put the planters along the middle as a divider between the bike and pedestrian paths.
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