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“Sweetwater” is that a euphemism as in effluent trucks being called Honey Wagons?

Richard | 17.03.18 - 9:04 a.m. | #

I love the fact that so many artists are living in the Fish island area, what I hate is all the mindless tagging that seems to go with it, the numerous murals dotted around Fish Island are fantastic and a joy to look at but why do some idiots just insist on spraying a meaningless tag that only they can read, and as for Vittoria Wharf perhaps if the people who were short term renting in the building had kept the area outside looking cleaner then perhaps the LLDC would have not been so quick to turf them out, every time I passed by the whole footpath was always covered in dumped rubbish and it looked awful.

fishislandskin | 17.03.18 - 10:30 a.m. | #

Sweetwater is the name of the neighbourhood in Florida where a footbridge collapsed this week at a university and killed a lot of students.

Patrick | 17.03.18 - 11:02 a.m. | #

@Patrick
The span that collapsed had only been installed last weekend and the bridge had not yet opened to pedestrians. The fatalities were in vehicles on the highway underneath.

timbo again | Homepage | 17.03.18 - 11:48 a.m. | #

There is something unnerving about the name "Sweetwater". Images of radioactive effluent fill my mind. Can't think why.

drD | Homepage | 17.03.18 - 2:07 p.m. | #

Sweetwater. That's also the HBO faux wild west town created at SWSX to advertise Westworld.

https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2018/03/westworld-sxsw-hbo

rashbre | Homepage | 17.03.18 - 5:38 p.m. | #

Sweetwater is because this is where the discharge from the Clarnicos sweet factory entered the Lee - literally making sweet water.

Giles Williams | 17.03.18 - 6:59 p.m. | #

This development is so depressing. It will ruin Fish Island by turning it into a ratrun and is completely unnecessary. What a wasted opportunity.

Dan | 18.03.18 - 7:22 a.m. | #

Having had a look through some of the planning documents (I'm meant to be working, but can't seem to resist a good planning document), it seems they're both quite nice bridges - the design process that went into the vehicle one in particular is quite interesting to read. (See the Design and Access Statements of 16/00593/AOD if you're interested.)

Two things disappoint me, though - first of all the need for the bridges in the first place. Do cars really need to get from Fish Island to the park? It feels like a case of 'if you build it, they will come' - whereas if it wasn't there, it would discourage people from making otherwise unnecessary car journeys through the park.

The other is the lack of imagination when it comes to putting non-vehicular traffic first. I get that people who live there need deliveries, and the non-ambulant need to be able to get to their homes by car; but it looks like the roads are just standard highways with painted cycle lanes on each side (with nothing at all on the new vehicular bridge). It's a shame they didn't think to look over the border at what Waltham Forest are doing with their Mini-Holland funding, rather than just copy the mediocre facilities on the other roads through the park.

But I suppose when the landowner and planning authority are one and the same...

martin | 18.03.18 - 4:11 p.m. | #

I found it quite hard to compare the before and after layouts, but they seem to be diverting the loop road from the side of the canal to the side next to one of my favourite parts of the park - the steep dell on the northwest of the stadium

https://flic.kr/p/d9U4Ny

it will be a great shame if the road is at the same level as the path along the top, it will totally loose the sense of seclusion.

This spot was also the scene for what I thought looked alike a low budget Dr Who episode

https://flic.kr/p/d9U1Aj

I guess they want some more flats overlooking the canal so selling for more of and arm & a leg.

NickW | 18.03.18 - 6:30 p.m. | #











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