The CME: an eyesore, something that severs the city, rips its fabric apart, a huge hangover from the 60s, and a barrier to the western communities - Heaton, Byker, Walker - to get into town biking or walking.
It's simple really. Cut and cover. It sits in a concrete channel, so the cut has been done. Now we just have to cover it. You can compensate for the construction and general user emissions by creating a linear park on top. It has been done elsewhere. Boston springs to mind.
Next cut and cover projects: Gosforth High Street, then Coast Road...
Gotta think big to get big minds thinking.
"a barrier to the western communities - Heaton, Byker, Walker - to get into town biking or walking."
ReplyDeleteNCN72 serves all of those 'western' communities, and then some!
Hi Mr/Ms Unknown. You seem unaware of challenging topography...
ReplyDeleteWhy would I 'challenge' topography.
ReplyDeleteThe areas you mentioned are in the east of Newcastle.
I don't regularly use it, but NCN72 connects us to the city, bypassing the motorway completely.
Those areas are in the east end of the city. Perhaps that goes some way to explaining your barking mad concept.
ReplyDeleteFunny enough Hamburg to exactly that. Germans. Mad.
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