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Title: Million pound plus footbridges - good use of money? Post by: grahame on November 12, 2014, 22:10:44 East Anglia Daily Times (?)
http://www.eadt.co.uk/news/poll_1_5m_monster_railway_bridge_at_thurston_is_dubbed_a_total_waste_of_money_1_3843757 Quote A rail tack operator has been accused of wasting ^1.5million on a ^monster^ of a bridge at a west Suffolk cycle route which a sustainable transport charity felt was already safe. Railway bridge poll Do you feel the money for the bridge could have been better spent elsewhere? Yes 73 % No 23 % Maybe 5 % These are the score so far Network Rail^s ramped bridleway bridge at Heath Road, just outside Thurston and near Bury St Edmunds, has been described as a ^green monster^ and ^a total waste of money^. Title: Re: Million pound plus footbridges - good use of money? Post by: Surrey 455 on November 12, 2014, 22:20:05 Along with the majority of those asked, I cannot understand how a footbridge can cost the amount it has. I'm just going to shake my head and say I don't know what the world is coming to. Was it just a difference of opinion between two organisations as to whether the work needed doing?
Title: Re: Million pound plus footbridges - good use of money? Post by: JayMac on November 12, 2014, 22:44:17 Can anyone tell me who or what a 'rail tack operator' is?
I note the bridge is part of a bridleway so maybe that's the answer. Either that or it's something to do with iron horses. ??? :P ;D Title: Re: Million pound plus footbridges - good use of money? Post by: Chris from Nailsea on November 12, 2014, 23:59:53 The cost of building one disabled ramp up to platform 1 at my home station came in at ^1million - discussed on this forum, at http://www.firstgreatwestern.info/coffeeshop/index.php?topic=8366.msg103379#msg103379
There is a lane on the hill above Nailsea, which used to have a sign saying, "Private Road - no public right of way: bridal way only". ;D Title: Re: Million pound plus footbridges - good use of money? Post by: JayMac on November 13, 2014, 00:02:44 There is a lane on the hill above Nailsea, which used to have a sign saying, "Private Road - no public right of way: bridal way only". ;D Well, as long as it gets her to the church on time. Title: Re: Million pound plus footbridges - good use of money? Post by: stuving on November 17, 2014, 17:46:01 Strange to say, according to Network Rail's "Safer Crossings" news sheet (http://file:///D:/Stuart/Topics/Travel/trains/Level%20crossings/Safer%20Crossings%20-%20issue%203%20October%202013.pdf), this design of modular crossing has been adopted to save costs...
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