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Hopewell Square. Someone had a sense of humour.
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It’s ballet not opera, ENB not ENO
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Does 'For safety reasons' really mean 'personal security'? If so, why not say that the risk of getting attacked on TfL property is to be avoided by going somewhere else that's even more risky ?
If the bridge is unsafe, from a constructional point of view, then put it on the list for rectification. But Explain Yourselves, TfL. |
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The "safety reasons" for the footbridge could be some fault in the structure meaning that a pedestrian could fall through or get stuck in the railings. Once the existence of such a risk has been suggested, it can't reopen until rectified. But a great nuisance, whatever it is.
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It really shouldn't be difficult to say briefly what the "safety reasons" are, and there's plenty of space on the sign. At least they haven't added an insincere apology for the inconvenience.
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Your 2019 blog also refers to the English National Ballet (rather than Opera), which agrees with what is shown on Open Street Map.
dg writes: updated, thanks. |
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As a matter of interest where was the other place you thought "oh bugger, i might be mugged"?
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Perhaps this is also a good place to mention that the potential walk along the Leaway towpath from City Island is blocked at Bow Creek by the Electra Business Park and the European Metal Recycling Plant, necessitating a very large detour. Bizarrely there is a towpath there which is well maintained and lit; just not open to the public. There are proposals to open this up which haven’t come to anything. So the residents of City Island won’t be walking to the Olympic Park or beyond via the towpath.
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I’ve blogged about the Leaway blockage more often than I’ve blogged about City Island :)
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The walk home from the station may be alright during fine summer evenings, but I wouldn't be particularly happy with that journey in deepest darkest winter. Does the red bridge even have lights on it?
dg writes: yes |
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I'm not sure if the residents are all that happy. The FT had a recent feature about how unhappy residents are in many other leasehold new builds, especially those from London City Island developer Ballymore.
The FT article is paywalled but there is a summary here & plenty of negative reviews here. So not just trapped geographically but potentially financially too. Very glad I'm not living there. |
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A complicated area. I remember seeing the ballet school from the DLR. A London friend took us to Trinity Buoy Wharf and what a delight it was and I hope it is never spoiled.
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I'm intrigued by the 'chunky ballet rehersals' - perhaps I have a future as a dancer after all.
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Unsafe bridge: Worth a FOI request? (When TFL again the capacity for the frivolity of responding to FoI, and assuming the law hasn't changed in the interim)
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Perhaps the developers wanted to use "Bow Locks" as a name but this had already been taken.
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Someone should take some bolt cutters and see what the problem with the bridge is. Would tnen stop Tfl faffing around about opening it.
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Bolt cutters probably don't come in the same hands as proper engineering and public safety qualifications..
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My God, this sounds like a perfectly dreadful place.
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It’s hard to believe that somebody hasn't already submitted an FoI request to explain the "unsafe bridge"
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This bridge has been closed since at least 1999.
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A writeup on New York City's similarly inaccessible but more accurately named City Island here.
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Snap! Well, almost. I walked to City Island last Saturday from my home in Whitechapel to see how things were going. The last time I did so was two or three years go. What a strange place. I too was struck by their failure to provide paths round the perimeter instead of having to walk on the road and the continued closure of the footbridge. In one sense I like the weirdness of the area, the muddy, tidal estuaries, the East India Dock Basin, the Thames, flyovers, etc. That's on a good day, on a bad one, it's bleak and depressing - big business squeezing every last penny out of people and place.
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Looks like something out of a JG Ballard novel.
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