I agree that a new structure should be considered more urgently, they want to save the aesthetics of the bridge, not the roadway. They could deconstruct the old structure and replace it with a brand new steel-reinforced concrete bridge using modern practice, buy up a area of land from St Pauls School while we're there and build another bridge 2-lane bridge so you'd have two 2-Lane bridges. This would bring it up to standards with other bridges in the area, Chiswick, Putney and *Wandsworth's 4-Lanes. This would allow for ease of mind for the current council and future ones, knowing that the structure is modern and won't be falling apart as rapidly, hopefully reducing operation costs, council taxes and general upkeep. This scale will also allow for reorganisation of Hammersmith One Way near the bridges and streamline that experience. We have the engineers, we have the know-how and this infrastructure project would boost the local economies because of the builders influx and you'd not need to worry about lorries much, since it'll be a riverside project, most of the materials can be loaded onto a barge and sailed up, thus speeding up **construction and reducing emissions to build it all. The old listed bridge can be taken apart, moved up stream and is built upon another brand new steel-reinforce concrete structure, but with the old iron work visible above it. This won't be used as a road bridge, but more as a Garden/Oxygen Bridge with a Cafe in the middle or something and make it Cyclist and Pedestrian use only. Who funds this, it will be a Council (On both sides), TFL (Stop spending £1.4 Billion on a Tunnel in the East) and Government funding due to the scale of building three bridges in short succession. Now, this will open a precedent for Govt to fund local council projects, however, this Bridge is a piece of Critical infrastructure and the Local Council's has led it into disrepair and if they were to fix it at current costs, it would bankrupt them and that wouldn't do. To let this bridge remain closed would affect the wider community and economic recovery with the loss of Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race and the increased pressure on the roads in already busy areas of London, with ***Putney, Chiswick and Wandsworth all picking up the slack and slowing traffic down. Additionally, I thought I saw an estimated budget to repair at £141 Million. Here's a recent article with the figure: https://www.mylondon.news/news/west-london-news/hammersmith-bridge-cannot-reopen-soon-19632586 *Wandsworth is undergoing it's own repairs and is temporarily at 2 lanes. **Using Barges at high tide will allow for nearly 1000 Tonnes of construction material to be delivered at once, rather than needing 100x10 Tonne Lorry trips. We know the Council are tighter than ducks arse, this will help that along. ***Putney High Street has consistently exceeded Air Pollution levels and this is due to rise in stop-start traffic mostly because of the bridge's added pressure for use. This is still very high, even with most High Street Buses being newer Hybrid Models that have much lower emissions than their Diesel models.

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Topic	Date Posted	Posted By
Hammersmith Bridge	13/01/21 23:07:00	Barbara Stevens
Re:Hammersmith Bridge	14/01/21 10:02:00	Katrina Black
Re:Re:Hammersmith Bridge	14/01/21 10:29:00	Jonathan Callaway
Reply	14/01/21 12:46:00	Michael Ixer
Re:Reply for Barbara	14/01/21 12:55:00	Katrina Black
Re:Re:Reply for Barbara	14/01/21 13:14:00	Jonathan Callaway
Re:Re:Re:Reply for Barbara	16/01/21 00:00:00	Thomas Jones
Re:Re:Re:Re:Reply for Barbara	16/01/21 00:34:00	Barbara Stevens
Re:Re:Reply for Barbara	14/01/21 19:59:00	Katrina Black
Reply	15/01/21 09:49:00	Carl Broadley
Re:Hammersmith Bridge	15/01/21 10:04:00	Barbara Stevens
Re:Re:Hammersmith Bridge	15/01/21 15:55:00	Philippa Bond
Re:Re:Re:Hammersmith Bridge	15/01/21 23:05:00	Patrick Barrs
Re:Re:Re:Re:Hammersmith Bridge	15/01/21 23:32:00	Ed Robinson
Re:Hammersmith Bridge (Too many RE's!)	16/01/21 00:13:00	Thomas Jones
Re:Re:Hammersmith Bridge (Too many RE's!)	16/01/21 00:23:00	Ed Robinson
Re:Hammersmith Bridge	17/01/21 21:35:00	Ed Robinson
Re:Re:Hammersmith Bridge	20/01/21 14:22:00	Richard Carter
Re:Re:Re:Hammersmith Bridge	20/01/21 18:37:00	Ed Robinson
Reply	20/01/21 22:25:00	Michael Ixer
Re:Reply	20/01/21 23:57:00	Ed Robinson
Reply	21/01/21 00:12:00	Michael Ixer

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