Paul Corfield writes:

On Sun, 15 May 2016 04:46:49 -0000 (UTC), Recliner
wrote:

From
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/...n-mayor-london

The new London mayor, Sadiq Khan, is investigating his predecessor’s
conduct over the procurement process for London’s planned £175m garden
bridge.

What he needs to do is cancel the damn thing. I know he's quoted as
supporting it but we do not need this wretched thing. The legal
restrictions on how anyone can "use" this monstrosity are enough, in
my view, to rule out all public funding. If they want to hire the
thing out, impose private security checks, prevent groups of people
standing still on the bridge etc then it should be wholly privately
funded and ideally built somewhere other than in London. Go and build
it on Beijing - the legal restrictions would fit in really well there!

And if it is not cancelled then they need to put the visitor atractions
on the North Bank, not the South. Apart from a short stretch where you
are diverted away from the river side past Southwark Cathedral and onto
Tooley Street, on the South Bank there are things of interest to
visitors actually adjacent to the river side path all the way from
Westminster Bridge to Tower Bridge. Whereas on the North Bank, the only
things of interest to visitors actually on the river bank are the Houses
of Parliament and the Tower of London. Granted that there are places
like St Pauls which are not far from the river, but unlike on the South
Bank you cannot walk along the riverside and actually pass them.