On 15/11/2012 14:24, Recliner wrote:
I see there is a plan for a new footbridge between Chelsea Harbour and
Battersea, next to the Overground line Battersea Rail bridge:

Quote:
Proposals for a new foot and cycle bridge across the Thames — the first in
more than a decade— have been submitted for planning approval.

The white steel bridge would run alongside the existing Battersea Railway
Bridge and mark the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee.

Chris Medland, the architect who designed the structure, is hoping to
secure corporate sponsorship similar to the Barclays-backed Boris Bikes to
fund the £22 million project.

The arched construction, known as the Jubilee Footbridge, would run between
Chelsea Harbour and Lombard Road, near Battersea High Street.

It would give commuters easy access to Imperial Wharf station in Fulham and
improve links between the north and south of the river, said Mr Medland.

From
http://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/-8319246.html

Not a bad idea at all, though one can't help but wonder if this anything
much more than one architect's dream at the moment? I suppose all ideas
have to start somewhere - that said, surely someone must have suggested
a pedestrian bridge here before? Must admit I've never come across it if
they have. Though I guess there wasn't all that much on the east (i.e.
'north') side of the railway bridge before the Imperial Wharf developments.

Corporate sponsorship for a bridge, with no cost to the taxpayer...
well, fair play if you can pull that one off. The dangleway was
originally supposed to be a privately funded endeavour, of course it
didn't quite happen like that - one can't help but feel that the the
public money spent on that might have been better spent on projects such
as this, if indeed it was to be spent on 'signature projects' at all
(rather than more mundane but useful stuff).