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Originally Posted by Cirrus
First and foremost it has to make sense as a bridge. Does it connect two places pedestrians want to cross? If not, it will end up an underused dead space.
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Sounds like it will be between Waterloo Bridge and Blackfriars Bridge. It's a busy area so there are plenty of people, as long as it meets the Victoria Embankment near enough to the Temple tube station. There's nothing on the South Bank of the river just there, though.
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Originally Posted by mhays
No problem there....tons of people in that area, and a half-mile cut off a lot of connections. Though it seems like a ped bridge next to the rail bridge to Charing Cross would probably have more demand, basically Waterloo Station and London Eye to the Trafalgar Square area. Or maybe both would benefit.
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True, but there is already a pedestrian bridge to either side of the railway lines. And trains pulling in and out of Charing Cross every 3 minutes wouldn't exactly make for the tranquil oasis in the city that the designers envision.