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    Lightbulb Footbridge across the Mersey?

    Just a thought I had recently whilst visiting Birkenhead. I understand that there are many factors that would influence such a project but I wouldn't rule it out completely. I believe it would greatly enhance the status of Wirral as a place to visit and would make getting there so much easier. I also believe it would make Wirral feel more like part of the Liverpool City Region.
    Ofcourse it would have to be high so smaller ships could pass beneath and have some sort of draw bridge for larger vessels but I think this could be done. I would like your views


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    Never mind a pedestrian bridge. Let's have a tramway!

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    This would look nice over the Mersey, and what a view the passengers would have;

    http://wapedia.mobi/en/Skybridge_(TransLink)

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    This does not want to cooperate. Sorry about that, but I shall try for another Translink site.

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    Let's see if this one works;

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skybridge_(Vancouver)

    No luck here, either. I give up!

    What I wanted to show was the Skytrain Bridge linking Surrey, B.C. with New Westminster, part of the light rapid transit network around Vancouver. Maybe our LRT specialist WW can find it.

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    Trythis link!
    http://www.bing.com/reference/semhtm...rain+vancouver

    24 pics, looks good!!

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    Quote Originally Posted by kevin View Post
    Never mind a pedestrian bridge. Let's have a tramway!
    The Mersey rail tunnel does that with a very fast train.
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    Thank you, Norm. That tells the whole story, and with great pictures. It was the cable-stayed bridge
    that I wanted to point out.

    WW. Merseyside looks so much better aloft. Far batter than the view from the tunnel.

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    Ofcourse it would have to be high so smaller ships could pass beneath and have some sort of draw bridge for larger vessels but I think this could be done. I would like your views
    Erm! there's a good distance between Hoylake,Birkenhead ect so the flaws in this I can see....

    People halfway across,this means any large vessles would have to come to a halt whilst the people finish crossing.

    Large vessels coming up from the mersey bar means the people would have wait god knows how long? for the vessel to pass before they can cross.

    Back to the drawing board for you milad. :-)

    Lets come upto date and make use of the hovercraft...across in 2 minutes and gets rid of any landing stages that the normal boats use. :-)

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    Why would we want another way to get to the wirral cul-de-sac?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Waterways View Post
    The Mersey rail tunnel does that with a very fast train.
    I had to wait a while, WW, but you didn't let me down!

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    I'm surprised WW's not suggested excavating all the docks and boating it across.

    I really don't think The Liverpool/Wirral area would suit a bridge

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    Quote Originally Posted by scouse smurf View Post
    I'm surprised WW's not suggested excavating all the docks and boating it across.

    I really don't think The Liverpool/Wirral area would suit a bridge
    The cost of building a straightforward footbridge would be prohibitive (and a pretty long walk in bad weather so who would want to use it?).
    Once you factor in a lifting section big enough to let the large ships going to Stanmore/Elsemere Port through, the cost would become astronomical.
    Whether you accept them or not, there are economic arguments for another Mersey crossing. There would be no economic argument for a footbridge.

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    If you want rapid connection between both banks to merge the two more, then the three tunnels do it well enough with scope to put a rail link under the Queensway tunnel. It would need excavating ubnder the road deck from the two vent towers on each side of the river inland. The long river section can take a train under the road deck. The track can be single track - bi-directional. If the city is to reduce car dependency then using one of the Wallaset tunnels and makeing the other two-way is another option. This takes trains into Wallasey and the north end of Liverpool. Tram-trains can be use to negotitate Wallasey and link into Merseyrail in Liverpool.

    OK A link from Garston to Ellesmere Port would be nice and a trestle bridge was proposed anout 10 years ago carrying rail lines linking Merseyrail easier to that part of Wirrral and beter airport access - if an airport station was built. Also a link from Bootle to New Brighton. But a Mersey barrier can take care of the Bootle link, which may come about eventually as sea levels rise and we become more eco wanting tidal power.

    The barrier is the obvious link as it kills many birds with one stone.
    A footbridge? The river is too wide and too windy to have any level of use worth talking about.
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    how it once was?


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    Quote Originally Posted by scouse smurf View Post
    I'm surprised WW's not suggested excavating all the docks and boating it across.

    I really don't think The Liverpool/Wirral area would suit a bridge
    I do like constructive thinking.


    Proposed Mersey bridge in 1898

    http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/watercity...ppreciate.html
    The new Amsterdam at Liverpool?
    Save Liverpool Docks and Waterways - Click

    Deprived of its unique dockland waters Liverpool
    becomes a Venice without canals, just another city, no
    longer of special interest to anyone, least of all the
    tourist. Would we visit a modernised Venice of filled in
    canals to view its modern museum describing
    how it once was?


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