please empty your brain below

So you're in favour, then? :)
If TfL don't spend the £30m on the bridge there would be enough for another cable car
51: It's in keeping with our national commitment to austerity and the needs of hard-working families.
Where will the burger sellers go? And will there be a special place for the three card tricksters?
Did you go to the TCOS meeting at St John's? It does sound like it, perhaps this is your report.

I couldn't make it, but as you've said you do these things so we don't have to 😉 but with a meeting like this the higher the attendance the better. Wish I could've made it. Sounds well supported anyrate.
52: Likely hardworking singles and those without 'families' will end up footing the bill.
According to today's Time Out (p8), "you will be charged for crossing the bridge." Either they know something we don't, or they didn't read the press release properly.
Oh dear, not another Heatherwicks design. The Olympic Cauldron I though was unimpressive.-Too small and not visible from out side the arena. The New bus for London I avoid as much as possible as uncomfortable inside and no rear window upstairs.
Now Heatherwicks are going to inflict upon London "garden" bridge over the Thames, guess it will take a lot to maintain a bridge with trees and plants
Re Heatherwick, hope the Garden Bridge is better constructed than his 'The B of the Bang' spiky construction in Manchester: spikes kept falling off it and it has now been scrapped.
53. It'll become a great place for 'trysts'
54. It'll become a great place for petty crime
55. Funding problems will cause it to be grassed over in 5 years time
56. Disputes over maintenance will mean it is tarmacked in 10 years time
57. It will become a magnet for new 'walking tours' - attracting multiple guides with upheld closed umbrellas, and hordes of disinterested overseas student visitors.
Would you say that the Garden Bridge is for those who are London Above, or London Below?
Oh boy. Thanks for this DG. I like number 21. in particular - like East London doesn't need a bridge instead. Exactly. Well, we can expect more of this nonsense I suppose.
#34. You forgot to mention that Joanna Lumley also ran around derelict London dockland locations in a fetching jump suit chasing bad guys as Purdey. The derelict docks have now almost all vanished under a forest of trendy apartments that nobody can seriously afford.
I can't wait for a "Violent Storm" to whoosh up the Thames and blow the trees over into the Thames and dessicate all the planting from wind damage. It's an utterly ludicrous place for such a "garden".

Please give the £175m funding to ensure Kew Gardens is properly funded for decades to come. Their work is of national and international importance. Oh and we can have the £30m of TfL money spent on transport not another vanity load of garbage.
58. It will open up such a convenient route from Waterloo to Bloomsbury and Kings Cross - just cross the bridge and hop on the Picadilly Line at Aldwych - errm, wait.
59. Actually, that's given me an idea. When the funding dries up and all the trees die (I give it ten years) TfL could take it over for a Waterloo-Holborn shuttle. Sort of a reverse High Line.
(Not sure how steep the gradient would have to be to connect from the existing tunnel, but the ground does fall quite steeply so it might be do-able)
It is nice that London, which has no defining characteristics or stand-out structures and has such a hard time attracting tourists will finally get an iconic structure to define it on the global stage.
It just what London needs...another bridge that can't be used by buses/cyclists. Given the projected increase in both due to the forecast population growth in London time surely to think of one or two new "road"bridges? If they can be used by other road traffic or not is up to the "powers that be"...but a "road bridge" makes more sense.Plus if being green is part of the issue then bout time a proper tree planting venture is started across the capital...to offset that said increase of vehicles/population.

As for "(hard)working families/singles"...seems as if many have "hooked-on" to "spin-words" used by government types. It is as if those who are not (hard) working (students, unemployed, retired, sick) are of no importance? Yet they may have paid (or will pay) their "dues". It another (in a long-line) of terms that is used to divide people instead bringing people together to solve common issues/problems.
People should occupy it in protest, camp in the flowerbeds. So much of what's gone up in London recently seems like 'bread and circuses', from the Dome, Shard, cafe culture, WalkieTalkie, even the Tate Modern.
Exactly the kind of dg post we all love. You're so 'small c' conservative dg that all your Laboury whining ends up being even funnier!
Not only those are not working, but those who are not families. I know lots of single people who work hard. (I imagine DG is one of them)

Who is looking out for them?
To paraphrase from the Simpsons: "The Government is for families, hard-working families. Maybe single people pay taxes, we don't know. Frankly, we don't want to know. It's a market we can do without"
Number 13 - No picnics - boo hiss! Can I eat my own sandwich whilst I cross?
60. A crazy-golf course on the bridge is a big-hit with locals and tourists alike. Yeah...I know, it a far-fetched idea. Imagine that, something fun and inclusive for people of all backgrounds and ages.
@ Timbo ..."Who is looking out for them?" ... In this Southern colony I can assure you no one is!

@ James " "The Government is for families, hard-working families. Maybe single people pay taxes, we don't know. Frankly, we don't want to know. It's a market we can do without" ... I really wish they could do without my taxes, I don't think we are a 'tax market' they could live without, but the transfer is hefty and one way.

I'd happily cough up taxes, but it seems that 'families' are more worthy these days than those in "London Below" (insert other Capital cities). The bridge sounds like a fun idea in many ways, but I'd seriously rather that the money be spent on "London below".
I have seen the future for the Garden Bridge, once the novelty has worn off for those holding the purse strings.


http://www.lincolnshireecho.co.uk/Plants-Lincoln-s-tropical-conservatory-dying-lack/story-12111185-detail/story.html
... tragic. Really tragic. I can't help thinking, though, that even if they were (allowed) to charge a nominal entry fee (say 2.50 pounds for adults, less for concessions, etc. that they would not be in such dire straits.
@Antipodean
An update
http://thelincolnite.co.uk/2015/02/joseph-banks-conservatory-set-demolition-lawn-revamp/

not quite as bad as the headline suggest, but what's the betting it will be just as underfunded and decrepit after another thirty years?
@ Timbo ...I dunno ... it would be the history of the original that would draw me in. A new exhibition would lose its provenance. And it would likely be one of those dreadful hands on things with computerised gizmos, instead of actual plants.










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