BRIDGE TOO FAR FROM HOME

Evening Post Editorial - 11 February 2005

Swansea Council's decision not to send the Slip Bridge to the scrap merchant in the sky is a compromise. The bridge will not be returning to its former home at the Slip in Oystermouth Road.Instead it will be placed further along the promenade in Mumbles Road, possibly near the car park at the bottom of Sketty Lane.

It is a nice idea because it means it will be walked by hundreds of people using the foreshore path every day.

But there are those who will not be happy because for them the bridge was all about happy, youthful days when they used it to cross over railways to the beach.

At least they will have the recompense of seeing the bridge put to better use. But the move will reinforce many people's belief that there was only one reason it was taken down in the first place.

That was because it spoiled the view of people living in the new flats built on the site of the old St Helen's swimming pool.