Thursday, 17 November 2011

Ashford's M20 pedestrian bridge: "Eureka Skyway"

What's in a name?  

Place-making is an in-exact science. Would it have been better to wait for a preferred name to emerge by community consensus?

Ashford M20 footbridge named as the Eureka Skyway
"the judges selected Eureka Skyway – one of no less than 76 names put forward by sports journalist Neil Wolfson – feeling the name was striking, modern and easily recognisable."
http://www.kentonline.co.uk/kentonline/news/2011/november/17/ashford_m20_footbridge.aspx

The comments under this item continue to snipe at the cost - and the need.

I am sure they missed a trick by not making the bridge a big A-shape. Instead, it's a lop-sided V-shape. It's a V-sign from or to Ashford. Which?

See also blogpost http://pannage.blogspot.com/2011/10/ashford-m20-suspension-bridge-opened.html

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