Posted: Mon Mar 19, 2007 2:15 pm
Years ago I went out with a lassie (now sadly deed) whose dad was a junior civil engineer on this project (in fact he claimed to be partlly responsible for this fiasco). I won't put his name in although I do remember it.
He said that the bridge structure was supposed to house shops and that the reason they were never built was that somebody pointed out after they'd built the platform that there was no way to deliver any stock to the said shops and therefore no-one would lease them.
Only after this was there a proposal for housing and that was knocked on the heed cos, again, naebody would wanna live there.
At the time I was told this (mid 80's) the guy was a senior Civil Engineer with Glasgow Council, so I've always kinda believed it. Anyways, it kinda rings true/makes sense, doesn't it?
He said that the bridge structure was supposed to house shops and that the reason they were never built was that somebody pointed out after they'd built the platform that there was no way to deliver any stock to the said shops and therefore no-one would lease them.
Only after this was there a proposal for housing and that was knocked on the heed cos, again, naebody would wanna live there.
At the time I was told this (mid 80's) the guy was a senior Civil Engineer with Glasgow Council, so I've always kinda believed it. Anyways, it kinda rings true/makes sense, doesn't it?