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If the curvy bridge was straight, it would be shorter and less complex, so likely to cost less per unit length and be doubly less “staggering”. Do I see the dead hand of design consultants at work? The Gateshead-Newcastle lifting pedestrian bridge is curved necessarily, but I can’t see why fixed structures wiggle all over the place.
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“Bike Infrastructure” – Bloomberg article
What would really help, apart form the “Societal” improvement suggested … would be an actual, proper arrangement of cycle lanes.
My local borough ( LBWF ) is very keen on cycle lanes, but …. every so often, the screw-ups are painfully obvious.
A set of cycle dive-unders at a major ( A406) roundabout, where the pavement/underpass entrance-exits do NOT have dropped curbs, a major local road with cycle lanes, except where there is a (cureable) narrowing & a junction & no cycle lane, & a ghastly cycle-unfriendly major junction (that used to be a roundabout) where using the main road is safer & easier than using the new cycling lanes (!)
Then there is THIS ghastly example .. note that the LH cycle-lane abruptly terminates & is occupied by a railing & a traffic-light .. & then resumes … what a cyclist does is unknown ( I just use the road! )
Though, I’m sure that other boroughs have similar problems?
Bryggebroen, Copenhagen’s snake like bridge is only only to facilitate its passage though existing buildings and ameliorate dangerous curves.
@Garry Brown I can’t speak for Moxon, but extending the length of the bridge to allow the approaches to ramp at an acceptable gradient for wheelchair users is a common reason for doing something like this and would be a more robust solution than the poorly maintained lifts on the existing bridge that are mentioned in the article.
Presumably they had preferred access points either side to link. There is some engineering on that middle section with pontoon guide rails and swivelling supports suggesting the open for business opportunities may be an acccess channel in the middle for watercraft.
The swivel (“a fold”) confirmed –
The S bridge would be able to “fold” open to allow large boats to access the western end of Royal Victoria Dock, which is adjacent to City Hall.
Meanwhile the project has been placed on hold due to lack of funding.
Also concerns have been raised about the future involvement of lead developer Lendlease in the consortium after it announced it was selling the construction side of its business and withdrawing from a number of UK projects.