A Bridge too far

It's two and a half years (time flies) since I posted on the subject of a proposed bridge over the river Mosel in Germany that was set to do much aesthetic and actual damage to one of the most beautiful parts of the world, seemingly to the advantage of no-one other than Ryanair and the people building it (original post below).

Well, it now appears that the architecturally valueless design actually doesn't stand up - literally - and the whole project may (hopefully will) not happen. Info here:

http://www.jancisrobinson.com/articles/a20120426.html

Quelle dommage!

Rod

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Original post (September 09, thread now closed)

Anyone who cares about wine, or has visited this most beautiful of Germany'’s vineyard areas, needs to try and help stop the proposed construction of a new bridge over the river Mosel. Details here, here and pictures here, roll over the arrows for a before/after.

No Viaduc de Millau, this has all the architectural merits of a sixties shopping centre and the main/only beneficiary is an Irish budget airline which wants to make its fanciful description of Hahn airbase as being vaguely near Frankfurt something less of the absurdity that anyone trying to get to Frankfurt this way knows that it is.

Some of the world’'s greatest Riesling vineyards will be decimated forever. The level of damage to others (soil composition, shadows, construction damage, water table effects, traffic fumes etc) is unknown.

The locals do not want this bridge.

I'm not against progress, even at cost, but they have asked for worldwide support for their cause.

You can write to Angela Merkel (in English) here.

Please do!