London To Get A Kilometre-Long Floating Walkway
More bread and circuses in time for the Olympics.
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Millennium Bridge Needs More Repair Work
The Millennium bridge between St Paul’s and Bankside, everybody’s favourite unsteady Thames crossing, is in need of repair work totalling £750,000, says the Corporation of London.
Student Designs Floating Thames Bridge
University of Westminster architecture student James Gardener has designed a series of interlinked islands that join together to form an inhabitable bridge across the River Thames between Woolwich and Silvertown. Called High Tide Street, the designs are purely conceptual and unlikely to be realised any …
Albert Bridge Closed To Motorists For 18 Months
The original wobbly bridge, spanning the Thames between Battersea and Chelsea, closed today for maintenance work. The Albert Bridge will get a fresh road surface, a full paint job and some newly minted traffic lights while vehicles are diverted over nearby Chelsea and Battersea Bridges. …
New Bridge And Tube For Nine Elms?
Image of Nine Elms from the river by tubb from the Londonist Flickr pool Regneration plans for Vauxhall / Battersea / Nine Elms have been announced by the Mayor’s office and by, do they sound grand. A new pedestrian and cyclist bridge linking Nine Elms …
Bridge Over the River: Why?
A tale of splendid Britishness and bungling bureaucracy for you. We were drawn by this tale of unfinished, er, bridgeness in Colliers Wood. The bridge, which spans the Wandle and was proposed originally to connect a housing development with a nature park on the opposite …
Inside The Olympic Site
Snaps from Stratford on Friday as one of the seven bridges was lifted into place on the Olympic Site. You can also check out this short and vaguely interesting video fly-through from the ODA showing overall progress on the Olympic site. The cupcake is taking …
Boris Baggage Balls-up Opens Thames Estuary Airport Idea
Being Mayor of London has its perks. If your family have a crappy time getting home from holiday, caught up in the purgatory of Gatwick baggage reclaim and – despite your eminent public standing and instantly recognisable blond moptop – being helpless to do anything …
Liverpool Street Station Closed
As you may well have found out on your morning commute, Liverpool Street Station is closed today following a fall of scaffolding from a new East London Line bridge onto tracks last night. It was originally reported that the bridge itself has collapsed. Thankfully, this …
Two Camden Icons Face Demolition
According to Camden New Journal (print edition), two of the Borough’s more distinctive structures are not long for this world. The Bloomsbury Service Station (right), on Store Street, is reckoned to be London’s oldest garage, pedaling petrol since 1926. Its cornflower blue trimmings are a …
