tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8570734860219292199.post8667157832855689613..comments2024-03-19T10:54:26.547+00:00Comments on Real cycling: A little bit of the US in south London: bike-freeRob Ainsleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15545429147297468874noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8570734860219292199.post-87578257057167198252010-02-26T10:24:28.677+00:002010-02-26T10:24:28.677+00:00"Oddly the architects forgot to draw the conc..."Oddly the architects forgot to draw the concrete barriers, bollards..."<br /><br />The original design brief called for a 100m exclusion zone around the building - this is what all those raised concrete plates with gardens and water are for. So all that stuff you list IS there, you just can't distinguish it from everything else.<br /><br />Who needs bollards when there is a moat built-in?Mikehttp://www.chthonicionic.netnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8570734860219292199.post-40096878228696313222010-02-25T09:34:43.800+00:002010-02-25T09:34:43.800+00:00Fortunately I have about as much interest in visit...Fortunately I have about as much interest in visiting the US embassy as I do in visiting the US!<br /><br />This will give me an excuse to avoid the entire area rather than suffer the laughable cycling facilities on Nine Elms Lame again...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8570734860219292199.post-73678098439750111832010-02-24T17:41:09.210+00:002010-02-24T17:41:09.210+00:00Oddly the architects forgot to draw the concrete b...Oddly the architects forgot to draw the concrete barriers, bollards, minefields, squads of marines, laser-death missiles, and moat of doom that will undoubtedly surround any future US embassy. Let's hope the evildoers don't figure out how the build the BikeBomb which could slip through their defences and jump red lights, all at the same time as terrorizing Daily Mail readers.ianphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10445207655118011725noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8570734860219292199.post-90143782745294572932010-02-24T17:37:56.893+00:002010-02-24T17:37:56.893+00:00This comment has been removed by the author.ianphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10445207655118011725noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8570734860219292199.post-52605699721794284172010-02-24T11:38:26.852+00:002010-02-24T11:38:26.852+00:00Philip - Bow wow wow.
Drip drip drip - one day La...Philip - Bow wow wow.<br /> Drip drip drip - one day Lambeth will notice Rob's banging on about Nine Elms Lane and fix it. Maybe.<br /> But you're marginally unfair to the embassy - they do talk of an urban park, with a walkway linking Vauxhall station to the Thamesside developments. They do mention garage ramps. And what about boat (or submarine) access?? I think we should be told. OK, no mention of bikes yet, but there might at least be some stylish parking somewhere, made of fragments of the World Trade Center or sommat similar:<br /><br />• The design places the embassy building at the center of the Nine Elms site and develops the surrounding area into an urban park. <br /><br />• There are two major east-west pedestrian and vehicular paths, one existing and one to be improved, and the other proposed as part of the enabling infrastructure for the Nine Elms development. The existing infrastructure is along the south Thames embankment and is composed of a river walk paralleled by Nine Elms Lane. The proposed new infrastructure to the south of the embassy site is a pedestrian greenway that will connect the embassy site to Vauxhall Station, the nearest tube stop to the east, and on to the proposed new Battersea developments to the west. Poised strategically midway between these parallel paths, the embassy becomes part of an urban park that connects the Thames embankment to the new pedestrian way to the south.<br /><br />• The paving about and within the embassy site utilizes the familiar limestone used in many London walks and parks. London Plane trees provide shade and form at the perimeter and along Nine Elms Lane as well as the proposed new walk to the south that connects the site to Vauxhall Station.<br /><br />• Seen from the north along the Thames embankment and Nine Elms Lane, the new Embassy Park contains a pond with walks, places to sit and landscape along its edges, all open to the citizens of London.Timnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8570734860219292199.post-15212786976254605292010-02-24T11:13:28.281+00:002010-02-24T11:13:28.281+00:00I look forward to all your photos of cars with dip...I look forward to all your photos of cars with diplomatic plates parked across local cycle lanes and on the frabjous cycle superhighway.<br /><br />"The embassy now owes a backlog of charges and fines worth £3,446,420."<br /><br />http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2009/aug/17/obama-ambassador-london-congestion-chargefreewheelerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16731932510033958017noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8570734860219292199.post-35648616377918985432010-02-24T09:58:36.506+00:002010-02-24T09:58:36.506+00:00You sure that's not the new Battersea Dogs Hom...You sure that's not the new Battersea Dogs Home? At least, cycling seems to be in the dog house here.Philip Loyhttp://twitter.com/philiploynoreply@blogger.com