Colin Posted November 2, 2008 Report Share Posted November 2, 2008 It's breathtaking that they can suggest 100%+ (or therabouts) extra for 'contingencies'. Looks like we're finally going to get a proper hole to throw all the money into. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frankie Posted November 2, 2008 Report Share Posted November 2, 2008 I was at the display in Bressay and saw a drawing with a cross section of the tunnel. I'm pretty sure there is a 2m wide walkway / cycle path proposed in the tunnel. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hobbiniho Posted November 2, 2008 Report Share Posted November 2, 2008 I was at the display in Bressay and saw a drawing with a cross section of the tunnel. I'm pretty sure there is a 2m wide walkway / cycle path proposed in the tunnel. is that not just a hard shoulder incase you brake down??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MuckleJoannie Posted November 2, 2008 Report Share Posted November 2, 2008 I was at the display in Bressay and saw a drawing with a cross section of the tunnel. I'm pretty sure there is a 2m wide walkway / cycle path proposed in the tunnel. is that not just a hard shoulder incase you brake down??? I was assured by onr of the people at the exhibition that there was a cycle way/footpath. Looking on the SIC website I found this document. http://www.shetland.gov.uk/coins/ViewSelectedDocument.asp?DocumentID=12992 Option 1 on page 4 is the one that was being put forward at the exhibition. The tunnel would allow bidirectional traffic movement with provision for a 2m cycle way/footpath and a 1.05m hard shoulder. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aa Posted November 2, 2008 Report Share Posted November 2, 2008 I'm an outsider but I do find it strange that the council would consider spending £40m just to benefit 400 people? Why do the project's supporters feel that there is such a pressing need for a permanent link? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PJ of Hildisvik Posted November 2, 2008 Report Share Posted November 2, 2008 aa, the council up here gets off on the enormous "Endorphin" release when they deal in sums of money over £40 million If the tunnel is designed without a pedestrian and cycle path, then it is a complete and utter waste of time and money and should not be entertained any further. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paulb Posted November 2, 2008 Report Share Posted November 2, 2008 why not a single track with a speed limit of 20-30mph. if its good for unst it will work there. The tunnel is about 1500m or about a mile; a walkway is not such a good idea with the risk of fumes,accidents. it looked like the tunnel was very long on land could they not devise a surface entry system that did not involve such a nig dig, abit like a quarry road. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghostrider Posted November 2, 2008 Report Share Posted November 2, 2008 I'm an outsider but I do find it strange that the council would consider spending £40m just to benefit 400 people? Why do the project's supporters feel that there is such a pressing need for a permanent link? If the £40m proposed spend was for the benefit of only 400 people, I doubt it would have gotten past the first hurdle. Its the development potential that is (behind the scenes of course) fuelling this. A tunnel puts much of Bressay "just a bit along the road" from the town's industrial area, and likewise puts a large part of the island as close by road to the town as Gulberwick is, which has already all but become urbanised and an extension of the town. Such will almost certainly never be admitted publically in a official capacity, but if demand for, and the value of land in Bressay does not skyrocket as soon as all the ducks are lined up for a fixed link, I'll eat my hat. With the exception of the Ness of Sound, which seems to have become some Holy Grail that must not be altered in any way, its the only place left reasonably close to the town for development, without heading for the hills with their accompanying greater exposure to generally poorer, and greater extremes of weather. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ArabiaTerra Posted November 2, 2008 Report Share Posted November 2, 2008 ... The same as you would not build a new, bigger school in a district where pupil levels were projected to fall. What? You mean like the new AHS? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carlos Posted November 2, 2008 Report Share Posted November 2, 2008 Well, that would depend on which pupils levels you wanted to look at. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PJ of Hildisvik Posted November 2, 2008 Report Share Posted November 2, 2008 Tunnel to Bressay, why not build new school over there, there's enough space surely Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carlos Posted November 2, 2008 Report Share Posted November 2, 2008 If Lerwick went to 3 primaries..... could be an option Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PJ of Hildisvik Posted November 2, 2008 Report Share Posted November 2, 2008 If plans stay as they are potrayed at present, surely the tunnel would be built before the new AHS? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tarotangel Posted November 2, 2008 Report Share Posted November 2, 2008 As I said on the other thread they need to start doing something soon otherwise they are going to lose funding again and another x amount of thousands will be spent on "reports" and the like. Personally I do think that Bressa is thought of as an overspill of Lerwick by some people when the fixed link (in whatever shape it comes in). Before it was said that Bressa would get a bus service that would be in parallell to Scalloway. The way that the paper made it sound was that the bus service would end at the tunnel and folk would need to make their own way from the tunnel to their house. Although will be asking the community council about that to clarify. I did think that they could have run the exhibition a bit longer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paulb Posted November 2, 2008 Report Share Posted November 2, 2008 all this land on bressay is it not croft land. the council may want to build on it, the landowner may but the crofters commission may have a diffrent view. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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