A photo taken through a little round hole in the wooden fence from a bridge on Södermalm in Stockholm. This is Slussen, or at least a small part of it. An ongoing and quite messy construction site since, nearly, the beginning of time. The latest controversy involves one of the new bridges that will be built here. It had been in the plans for many years when just a few months ago SL that operates the trains and metro all of a sudden said that if the City and builders start the work on the new pedestrian/cyclist bridge we will not be able to run our trains through here and all passengers will have to walk between Slussen and The Old Town. That is a few hundred thousand people, so after threats about lawsuits and such fun, everyone sat down and decided to find a solution in one week's time after not being able to fix it for ten years or so. The result, a new bridge that will not be able to handle all the cyclists and that will miss an important ramp cyclist were supposed to use, as there's an 11-meter height difference here. Bicycle and traffic experts are not happy, but the responsible politicians have gone into hiding for the time being.
6 comments:
Roadworks are headaches around the world. Trying to skew the statistics of unemployment.
And as always money must be the problem.
The cost for this project is on the huge side by now. And they are years behind the schedule.
The same problems seem to come up all over the world with infrastructure projects. What a mess.
Sounds like a cluster**** of a headache.
These are never ending stories.
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