[bikeqld] Impediments to cycle planning; lack of glossy magazine articles on Brisbane Bridges

[Peter Gough]

This one?:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clifton_Suspension_Bridge

That would be Isambard Kingdom Brunel's work, rather than either of the
famous Ste*ph*enson's.

In Brisbane terms I'd have thought that such a bridge might make quite an
attractive addition to the city's riverscape but I can't see it happening
given council's apparent enthusiasm for commissioning more daring pieces of
engineering whenever possible.

2009/12/29 mich rolling <xdollarfuel at yahoo.com.au>

> Here is a large issue; National Heritage Trust has in it a large fraction
> of its membership people who don't want anything to change, ever.
>
> No trees to come down, no vistas ruined by new bridges or buildings.
>
> Part of the problem may lie in the lack of visibility of cycling in
> planning journals and coffee table books. Without technically solid and/or
> professionally accepted (through glossy Architecture mags) literature to
> fall back on planners are operating in a technical vacuum made more
> professionally dangerous by the lack of 'hey look, this has been done
> successfully before' glossies to show their bosses and commissioning agents.
>
> More architects and planners need to publish more on cycle works in the
> professional magazines.
>
> Without big pretty writeups (locally of the Kurilpa bridge and Schnoell
> bridges) cycling planners are handicapped when going for the next big
> project in Brisbane.
>
> For example, I predict that any plan for a bridge from Alice St to Kangaroo
> Point will be opposed by the NHT on the grounds that it will ruin the vista
> of that section of cliffs and sweeping bend of the river.
>
> I hope I am still around to see what happens with the Alice St bridge. It
> is hard to see how it can be anything other than a suspension bridge with
> the risk that that bend of the river will end up looking like a biscuit tin
> image of Stevenson's bridge over the Avon gorge.
>
>
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