Bus Shelters in St Brelade

[The Rev Peter Sarkey]

Did you know that there was an award winning cyclestation designed by a Jersey student?

[Sean Power]

Hi,

No I did not.  How could I know ?

Sean

[The Rev Peter Sarkey]

Because you have stated earlier in this thread that you have looked at Bus shelters in Brighton and have given the impression that you know about it, that's all?

[Sean Power]

Hi,

I was referring to the fact that I did not know that a Jersey student had designed a cycle station.

Sean

[The Rev Peter Sarkey]

If one had done, what would you do about it?

[tonytheprof]

Sean,

Just to say thank you for looking into this.

[Sean Power]

Dylan,

If I knew who the student was and the design for the cycle station was of relevance to Jersey, of course, I would want to see the design and meet the student.

You will remember that on another thread, I referred to Fort Regent and the need for it to be used properly. I think it an ideal place for a cycle station.  It needs high speed lifts at Snow Hill as well as better access at Pier Road.

Some of the Ramparts could be covered in a glass roof to provide bike racks.

This link is to one in Muenster, Germany. While the principle is the same, this is an underground facility.

http://www.klinke-macrae.org.uk/photos/2001/muenster/bike_station/

I am interested.

Sean

[tonytheprof]

You will remember that on another thread, I referred to Fort Regent and the need for it to be used properly. I think it an ideal place for a cycle station.  It needs high speed lifts at Snow Hill as well as better access at Pier Road.

High speed lifts would certainly be better than the old cable cars, fun though they were! They were at Snow Hill, but were much more cumbersome and slow that a lift would be. Transparent lifts (like the Lloyds building, or indeed on a smaller scale at the Judicial Greffe) would give the visitor to Fort Regent a wonderful panoramic view over St Helier as a bonus.

How would they be funded though? Would a "user pays" system be possible? And which department would be responsible?

[Sean Power]

Hi,

It would have to be with the existing Active Card and perhaps a specific card for cyclists. I have not gone into much detail with ESC as the old regime is about to exit.

Sean

[tonytheprof]

I was speaking to Phil Rondel on Friday night and he said there were already plans (never implemented of course) that had been drawn up for lifts from Snow Hill to Fort Regent.

[Sean Power]

 Hi,

Fort Regent is in need of another massive investment and make-over.  That Aquasplash pool decision was a disastrous mistake.  Nobody has tackled access to the Fort from Snow Hill in 30 years. It needs high speed and high capacity lifts from Snow Hill with a covered travelator into the Fort covered area.

The Piazza area is sad and yet the whole complex has tremembous potential. 22 acres overlooking St. Helier and the whole South Coast and we cannot make it work.

Sean

[Razzard]

Why don't the States consider building the new financial district at Fort Rgent with a dedicated conference centre and leave the waterfront for the people of Jersey to enjoy themselves?

It's OK Sean you don't have to answer that one. I know it's just fantasy.

[The Rev Peter Sarkey]

Not a bad idea from such a contro-varsial editor. The swimming pool could be used to put the rainy day fund in.

[Razzard]

The idea comes from the notion of security - in the banking sense. Something which I readily admit has been in short supply of late. Things will get better in time.

I spend a lot of time flitting in and out of the building's in EC2 & EC3 - the City of London. The architecture has been designed to show strength, security, grandness and even power. Now what other architectural styles follow similar themes - military ones!

I just had this flicker of an idea that you could make a really interesting architectural and cultural statement about the Islands main industry by housing it in a regency period fortification overlooking St. Helier - a sort of guardian industry there to protect the well being of it people.

If you look at an arial photo of St. Helier you will see that the Fort takes up about the same size as the Island site and the proposed financial district put together so it could easily take the strain.

Anyway - shouldn't we be talking about bus shelters in St. Brelade. I don't want any of the locals accusing me of coming on their threads - so to speak!