This new ones looking pretty good. http://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/Reve...tunning-arch/story-26738978-detail/story.html But easter 2017, come on, every finger should be pulled out to get it ready before then.
Revealed: New Castle Street bridge will be stunning 'arch shell' over A63 in Hull please log in to view this image THIS is the stunning shape of things to come over Hull's busiest road. After years of delay, a spectacular new footbridge over the A63 Castle Street has been designed to link the city centre to the waterfront. The sleek new footbridge is on track to be ready by Easter 2017 – ready to play a major part in Hull's year in the spotlight as the UK City of Culture. Subject to securing planning approval, the scheme has been separated from the wider Castle Street improvement programme, allowing construction work to start early next year. With a number of major events expected to take place in and around the city's waterfront during the year of celebrations, council officials have been working to improve access to the area across Castle Street. They were initially concerned that further delays to the wider upgrade scheme for the A63 route through the city centre would impact on the bridge project. But today the Mail please log in to view this image can reveal the proposed design for the crossing for the first time, together with a likely timetable for its construction. The "arch shell" look is a radical departure from a previous set of concept design ideas put forward by the former Highways Agency. They included several looped designs with elevated walkways over Princes Dock and the marina. The new-look design is the work of McDowell and Benedetti, the same firm of architects behind Hull's award-winning Scale Lane footbridge that spans the River Hull. Working with engineering firm Arup, they have come up with a design that reverts back to a straight route for pedestrians and cyclists across the dual carriageway, which carries 54,000 vehicles a day. Designs seen by the Mail also show a suggested lighting scheme for the bridge to illuminate the structure and the approach walkways at night. The lighting scheme could even see the bridge change colour during the evening. please log in to view this image And as well as providing a new link to the waterfront, the design also includes new areas of landscaped public space on either side of Castle Street, next to both stepped and elevated approaches to the bridge itself. There is also a so-called add-on option of filling in small area of the marina to create a new dry dock berth for the Spurn Lightship, which is operated by the city's museums section. Other potential features include a footway link to the Princes Quay shopping centre, potential space for a commercial unit underneath the southern end of the bridge overlooking the Marina, and lifts from the ground floor to the main bridge deck. Councillor Martin Mancey, the city council's cabinet portfolio for transport, said he was delighted at recent progress on the bridge project. "The crucial thing has been to decouple it from the wider Castle Street scheme," he said. "Now that has been achieved, a planning application for the bridge is due to be submitted to the planning committee in August. "Subject to approval by the committee, the timetable is to get it in place for Easter 2017." Cllr Mancey said the decision to allow the bridge scheme to progress had been made after he and Hull West and Hessle MP Alan Johnson met with Transport Secretary Patrick McLoughlin. "I am delighted we have got to this stage with the planning application about to go in," he said. "I am a lot more optimistic about it now than I was a few months ago, when I was fairly pessimistic about things. "From what I have seen of the design, I think it will be pretty impressive and will be truly iconic." http://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/Reve...tory-26738978-detail/story.html#ixzz3dm9hCO18
I'll say this, we have a flourishing industry in artists impressions of stuff that is going to be done in Hull but which in fact very few actually do take place. What was the latest estimate for Castle St? 2020? Luxury Hotel where L.A' was, 18 story block of apartments where the old Edwin Davis's store still stands I won't go on you get the drift.
In my opinion, Castle Street bridge is far more important that the Castle Street roadworks, at least as far as CoC 2017 is concerned. This is brilliant news and it's a far better design that most of the bland rubbish proposed previously, the only drawback is that completion should be targeted for Jan 1st 2017, not Easter 2017. I know you keep poo-pooing the benefits winning CoC 2017, but you're completely wrong. The 159 room Hilton Garden Inn Hotel on the LA's site is in planning and is still due to open for 2017, the 168 room Radisson Blu Hotel on the old Clarence Mill site is already being built and will open in 2017. I see today that the complete restoration of Pearson Park is also likely to go ahead, funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund and again aimed at being open during 2017. There are many developments currently going on in Hull, for which the CoC 2017 has been the catalyst and they should be celebrated.
You could put together a similar list of examples where proposed developments DID actually take place. One of the biggest problems Hull has faced over the years is having to fight negativity such as yours. I was going to post something along the lines of "who's going to be the first person to start with the negativity?" Looks like you answered the question before it was even asked
I don't think it's a major issue if the bridge isn't ready for until March 2017 Most visitors will be coming from Spring onwards.
You could also compare other cities and their ratio of developments which have gone ahead. I feel that Hull would be somewhat behind many of them.
My thoughts precisely, these things are always delayed. How late was the one near the Premier Inn at the flyover?
If I'm honest it's still just a footbridge with a fancy cover. It's still not what I had anticipated for making the Marina a part of the city rather than cut adrift by the A63. The design is better, but I still feel we as a city have been short changed.
I still like the land-bridge idea, the problem is, this one couldn't be done without the rest of the Castle Street redevelopment and then we're looking at some time beyond 2020... please log in to view this image
That's the one, much better solution, why can't they do a temporary bridge until a proper bridge like the one pictured can be completed? It's the least the Marina deserves.
Obviously the land bridge would be the prefered choice, but this isn't bad. The big positive is that the bridge has been elevated so it's just a straight trip across the road. Some of the designs had the bridges starting back in stoneferry.
That can be said about any bridge, the land bridge, take away the grass and you just have a concrete platform!! I like both designs TBH
Wrong OLM I am not poo hooing anything to do with the CoC award my gripe is the amount of developments announced with great fanfare and appropriate artists impressions then absolutely nothing materialises. There is nothing I would like better than to see the cranes and building works be scattered all over the Hull skyline but after a years of inaction after so much fanfare and publicity I have become a cynic at anything announced these days, call it years of experience with the subject. The last big development in the city was St Stephens and since then nothing although many plots of land have appeared especially those shops demolished on Ferensway opposite Hull Truck. On the old Spencer's Arms there is a wonderful artists impression of plans to turn that into something grand the impressions are still there but nothing has happened and that happens again and again, Hull is short changed as far as investments are concerned.
Are you surprised at my post? I have stated many a time that I believe Hull has been short changed in the investment department and when you see the grand plan for the a Northern Powerhouse, which originally made no mention of Hull, or the electrification of the railways from the West coast, which again did not include Hull although that may have now been amended, I feel I am justified in feeling that Hull is in general ignored despite the likes of Siemens appearing on the scene. I remind you that the people of Hull were bribed into voting for a Labour MP to prop up Harold Wilson's government before we got the Humber Bridge even though Hull had been asking for the crossing for the previous 80 years. The Myton Bridge was a cheap option that meant the city centre would still come to a standstill to let one boat pass through instead of the brilliant idea to carry on the Clive Sullivan Way on stilts over the river hence no delays when a boat had to pass through. Remember the mono rail through the city centre? Again artists impressions were produced, fanciful maybe but how many cities now have trams to add to the transport system. I will repeat I would to see progress on a grand scale in Hull providing jobs and investment but although new buildings have appeared over the years, Willis Ludlows (Primark) Princes Quay, St Stephens and a couple of hotels springing up now around the city centre that is not an awful lot for a city which was once the 3rd largest port in the country, if you want to see development then a trip to Liverpool may give you an inkling of what I am on about, their redeveloped docks are amazing. Lord Line development anyone?
It's simply not true that nothing's happened since St Stephens, what about the major C4DI development currently being built? please log in to view this image http://www.wykeland.co.uk/developments/c4di/ The Radisson Blu Hotel that's currently being built? please log in to view this image The building of St Stephens was aimed at regenerating the area around Ferensway, in addition to being a shopping centre, hotel, cinema and theatre, it also led to the rebuilding of the front of Paragon Interchange(something they did a brilliant job with) and now we have another large hotel opening on the old LA's site. The time for moaning about the lack of development in Hull was when it wasn't happening, not now it is. You'll always be able to point at somewhere like the Lord Line, but that site has major issues, it's owned by two different people who both want to develop the site but don't want to talk to each other. Renovating the Lord Line itself is far more expensive than knocking it down and it doesn't currently have an obvious use, it's too far out of the city centre to walk to, which makes it far less attractive a development site than Liverpool was.
