Bridge dreams
Can someone explain to me why this dream of 4 pedestrian and cycling bridges isn't possible and instead I have to ride my bike from Morningside all the way to the story bridge and around to get to the albion area when I could just have a nice little bridge over to newstead park. I understand this dream might cost a bit and honestly if pushed id maybe compromise for three of the four
I know its something about big boats and rich nimbys living on the river. So my question is who's big boats are we talking about here? Like who specifically is responsible for lobbying for their big boat to come all the way up to New Farm park and what sort of goods are they carrying that are so large that we can even have a 15m clearance bridge can't fit it? Even if they do need to import some sort of greater than 15xXxYm rectangular prism of stuff drawbridges exist. Like surely if Norway can build 17000 bridges through fjords and sorts we can afford to build another few over the river.
Like hell id even almost be willing to have a dodgy pedestrian tunnels at this point and risk getting drowned in a summer thunderstorm/flood event if it meant saving the cycle time and not having get a farken city cat
Also while we're at it maybe even one over near eat street markets or Hamilton wharves too.
Can someone explain to me why this dream of 4 pedestrian and cycling bridges isn't possible and instead I have to ride my bike from Morningside all the way to the story bridge and around to get to the albion area when I could just have a nice little bridge over to newstead park. I understand this dream might cost a bit and honestly if pushed id maybe compromise for three of the four
I know its something about big boats and rich nimbys living on the river. So my question is who's big boats are we talking about here? Like who specifically is responsible for lobbying for their big boat to come all the way up to New Farm park and what sort of goods are they carrying that are so large that we can even have a 15m clearance bridge can't fit it? Even if they do need to import some sort of greater than 15xXxYm rectangular prism of stuff drawbridges exist. Like surely if Norway can build 17000 bridges through fjords and sorts we can afford to build another few over the river.
Like hell id even almost be willing to have a dodgy pedestrian tunnels at this point and risk getting drowned in a summer thunderstorm/flood event if it meant saving the cycle time and not having get a farken city cat
Also while we're at it maybe even one over near eat street markets or Hamilton wharves too.