'Land bridge' over A63 Castle Street in Hull city centre to be raised with Transport Secretary Patrick McLoughlin

“A raised road from Daltry Street to Garrison Road should have been the way to go, years ago. What do we do now?...no bluddy idea, the job's *******ood.
One thing is clear, if we want East Hull to avoid being cut off from the rest of the western world, and attract businesses like Siemen and also help the pier area in the old town, somethings gotta come up with a VIABLE solution. Whatever, it's gonna cost a bomb...kabooom!”

“Spot on MOREV. Kingston upon Hull is at best just one meter above sea level.
I am sure that people can remember when they tried to tunnel under the River Hull near Kingswood it flooded, so that is why the two bridges where built.
What Kingston upon Hull needs is an elevated section of road from Smith and Nephews right across to the prison. No roundabouts. No traffic lights. No pedestrian crossings. No swing bridges.
By lowering the A63 will only do away with a couple of pedestrian crossings or am I missing some thing?”

“Having only recently returned to Hull I'm not really one to make an informed comment on this issue. But even without having any knowledge of previous debate it should be obvious to anyone the importance to Hull of extending the M62 motorway by upgrading the A63 at least as far as Saltend. We already have reasonably good dual carriageway from the Humber Bridge until almost into Castle Street and from The Deep, why can't that bit be upgraded. Spending all that money proposed to get pedestrians across from the town to the Marina is surely not justifiable? Let's see some evidence of the effort, if any, that our local MPs are putting into harassing the government to get this moving at long last.”

“They still have not finished the swing bridge that was supposed to be finished september 2011”

“This idea was suggested on a good ten years ago, I was part of a focus group to whom the idea was pitched. Sounded and looked a great plan. Never happened though.”

“The idea of a land bridge seems sound to me. If you have ever visited Birmingham it is no longer the concrete jungle of the 1970s and those dank dingy subways which Hull never introduced in the city centre (thankfully) have all been swept away. If you walk from the current Central Library towards the ICC in Centenary Square (where a new, state of the art Central Library is being constructed to replace the existing one) you will cross one of the best examples of a land bridge which is so wide that you would not even realise Smallbrook Queensway, one of the busiest roads in Birmingham City Centre, runs right underneath. That's the type of land bridge I hope our local councillors have in mind.

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Just ignore the ugly concrete edifice in front of the land bridge.”

“Neeeeeeever gonna happen.”

“smartguy1

Because we have an anti-car Council. It's time they accepted that the car is here to stay and set about keeping traffic flowing. Stop start sequences within such short distances creates pollution, congestion and irrational behaviour by all road users including pedestrians. Let's get the traffic to where it needs to go as quickly as possible. It is obvious that the light sequences in Hull, including pedestrian crossings, are designed to inflict the most disruption possible in an attempt to curb vehicle use.”

“Hahahahahhahahahahahahaha, sounds like a Cameron proposed scheme along with bedroom tax. What an absolute joke. Isn't it a shame that our council, highways or whoever is responsible cannot just synchronise the traffic lights on Castle street so all the cars can move and the pedestrians can cross when the cars are stopped instead of stop start stop.”

“looks like the RAF has taken over......the red arrows”