To be pleased that the Garden Bridge in London is being cancelled

[ForalltheSaints]

A vanity project which would have sucked yet more money from other real transport improvements. In a place not needing a new river crossing.

There should be a requirement to publish full financial details of the money wasted so far.

Yes it was ridiculous. And how on earth has it cost so much to get to this point? Most engineers saw it as grossly inefficient and a waste of money too.

Yanbu.

Massive white elephant.

That's great news!!!

Is this definite?

I wish that it had been scrapped years ago. It would have cost too much to maintain.

Bloody glad if this is true, complete waste of taxpaper's my money.

It's true. It's all over the news.

YANBU. the first thing I thought of was Caligula and the Floating Bridge of Baiae. Massive waste of resources, especially considering the austerity measures.

Spunked away on administration and salaries.

David Cameron pushed it on against the advice of his civil servants. Such arrogance!

David Cameron 'ignored civil servants over Garden Bridge funding'
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-37616161

But what about the waste of all the money that has gone into this already?

Shameful waste but no point throwing good money after bad.

The review and Saddiq Khan are right to put a stop to this and avoid even more money being wasted.

Now they just need to stop the utter waste of money that is HS2.

No point throwing good money after bad - we are being told no money for hospitals, health visitors, libraries, schools etc , but we can afford a vanity project like this?!
Well done Sadiq Khan.

I also agree with you about HS2 reallyanotherone

I want to know how £35 million can be spent without anything being built

I think they've spent 10 times that amount over the past 30 years not building a mass transit system.

In Leeds that is.

Now perhaps the DFT might finally stump up the relatively (in the context of its budget) small amount required so that the millions passengers using the second largest metro network outside London don't have to grind to a halt on broken 40 year old trains every day.

But it won't, because northerners' time isn't considered valuable enough.

Barbara, it was £40m on the supertram. Not sure how much on trolleybus, but I don't think it was anything like as much.

Of course, then there is the question how a city the size of Leeds isn't deemed worthy of a mass transit system for the sort of money that is chucked around like loose change in London. (Not that I'm bitter, oh no.)

Colossal waste of money. How many children could be fed or families be housed for the millions that were pissed up the wall?

Delighted this vanity project has been scrapped. As others have said, no point throwing good money over bad. It wouldn't even have been a public space.

I thought it was a lovely idea. Shame it couldn't have been funded privately.

I loved the idea personally. I wish it could have been funded privately though.

Agree completely. Good for Sadiq Khan.

Kahn did the right thing to scrap it. A colossal waste of money.

It was a ridiculous idea from the off, and I'm glad it has been scrapped

But all the hang wringing about hospitals and nurses is missing the point.
The funding came from Transport for London and Dept of Transport budgets

The things that have suffered are things like cycling infrastructure and road repairs

The money would never have been used for the NHS or more housing. That isn't how government funding works