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Islington Tribune - by PETER GRUNER
Published: 11 July 2008
 
Footbridge study was ‘duplicitous’

A  CONTROVERSIAL £60,000 feasibility study into a footbridge that could unite communities on either side of King’s Cross station was already “weighted against the scheme”  before it was launched, according to claims this week.
Network Rail ruled out the £5million footbridge last month – promised originally in plans for the railway land redevelopment – on the grounds of costs and security complications.
But campaigners argued this week that the original brief for the study was “unneces­sarily complicated”.
Islington Labour councillor Paul Convery, chairman of the west area planning committee, accused Network Rail and Camden ­planners, who provided the brief for the ­feasibility study, of being “duplicitous”.
He added: “The planners didn’t look at a simple bridge which would have stretched across the station from one side to another and which is what the residents wanted.
“Instead they looked at a complicated version with access to several platforms. Obviously that would have created a security nightmare and be costly. So the whole scheme was dropped.”

* The scheme will be discussed at a meeting by the King’s Cross Rail Group on Thursday at the Blessed Sacrament Church in Copenhagen Street, Barnsbury, at 7pm.
 

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