Concerns about the Garden Bridge

In a Guardian article by Rowan Moore, Caroline Pidgeon discusses some concerns about the project to build a Garden Bridge from Temple to the South Bank:

These rapid changes of position caused Caroline Pidgeon, the leader of the Liberal Democrats in the London Assembly, to spot a pattern. The mayor’s statements on the bridge had been “totally false, just as with his past claims about the funding of the cycle hire scheme and the Thames cable car”. ...

A subtler design might also have found a way to include a cycle track, whose absence Pidgeon laments. “To spend lots of money and not allow cycling is madness,” she says. TfL says that cyclists will be well cared for by such things as the city’s proposed new superhighways. Morrell points out that to have cyclists “barrelling up and down” would destroy the serenity of the gardens. He’s right, but Pidgeon suggests a track at a different level, which a different design approach might allow.

Read the full article here.