Sunday 21 August 2011

Liverpool, bridge

This pedestrian bridge provides a safe crossing across the busy Newbridge Road in the south western suburb of Liverpool. This contemporary office building has been built on the edge of the ever expanding commercial area.

15 comments:

  1. Even though there are traffic lights there, pedestrians must climb stairs and walk over a a bridge to get across the road. Not so great.

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  2. Lovely structure. Good capture, james! :)

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  3. Yep, I am with Andrew. I cannot see the point of this bridge and it would exclude me with my stick. How wierd.

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  4. Well who know the reason why! - it's aesthetically pleasing but is it necessary? - most probably not.

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  5. can't even remember when last i crossed a bridge.

    like it. might make crossing the street for kids safer. please have a good sunday.


    daily athens

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  6. Yeah, I often wonder why they bother to have a pedestrian bridge where they also have pedestrian crossings. In this case, the road is normally very busy and it can be quite a long wait at the traffic lights to cross so the bridge is a much faster alternative.

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  7. I really like the choice of the blue paint for the footbridge rails. It is so pretty there leading you over to the new building. Like the two levels of steps, too. Such a nice shot. genie

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  8. back here, people just cross the road since the distance is shorter then going up the bridge, prob a pedestrian crossing would be better and less costly for the municipal?

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  9. How do old/disabled people access the bridge?

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  10. diane b, we may eventually see the stairs replaced by a spiral ramp, as they have done in other suburbs around Sydney.

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  11. Don't they usually do research before they build something to see if it's necessary? Would be interesting to actually see how many people use it, as you say Jim, maybe more so in peak times.

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  12. To cross the road below the bridge seems much faster to me. It is a huge climb with ugly see trough iron, which freaks me out when I look down.

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  13. Funny that you took the photo at a time that there was no traffic! But if it is normally a busy road, then it surely is needed!

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  14. We could use more of these types of bridges where I live!

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  15. A practical looking structure. People usually go with the easiest option to avoid stairs, but then we also hate to wait.

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