Crossing london

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If it is built — and that's still a big if and quite a way away — it will cross under the river just west of Battersea Bridge.

The tunnel under the river will lie between Clapham Junction Station and King's Road Station — if the residents don't keep moaning about the area being better connected. Another pedestrian and cycle bridge — these are all the rage nowadays — this one will connect all those shiny new developments in Nine Elms, with Pimlico on the north side of the river.

Not that the people of Pimlico want this bridge — the phrase ' vanity project ' has been tossed around on their end. The bridge is progressing nicely, as investors have made sure the project is well funded. A preferred location out of a possible three has been picked , the one closest to the reimagined Battersea Power Station and soon to open Northern line station of the same name.

It's progressing nicely at the moment and we're probably five years away from this bridge opening. Dead as a dodo. Good riddance. Now we zoom past central London which is replete with crossings, and head east, where there is a total dearth.

Yet another pedestrian and cycle bridge is planned — we told you they're in vogue — this time linking Canary Wharf and Rotherhithe. One of the reasons for the current paucity of crossings further east than Tower Bridge is a logistical one. Big ships still pass through that part of the river, and bridges complicate that. The solution in the case of this bridge? Just do what we did over a hundred years ago — build a drawbridge. Like so many others on this list, this bridge is coming up against some funding issues.

However, as it's in east London where river crossings are more in demand, Sadiq Khan is much more committed to this bridge than its west London contemporaries. There are some who claim that this isn't the crossing east London needs, and wouldn't get enough use to justify the cost.

A ferry is the old school way of crossing a river. It's what ancient Londoners did back when there was only one bridge of note in London the eponymous one. But just because we've got better at building bridges and tunnels, doesn't mean there isn't a place for ferries in modern London. Just look at Woolwich's. Except it looks like there isn't a place for the mooted Canary Wharf to North Greenwich ferry in modern London.

It hasn't been officially killed but there hasn't been any talk of this proposed crossing for a couple of years. Don't worry people of North Greenwich. You've still got the cable car! As mentioned earlier, bridges in east London are an issue.