WHY NO INFO ON BRIDGE?

16 July 2005

I Found your Opinion article (Post, July 2) regarding the Slip Bridge both inaccurate and on a par with the council's consultation cards. Your people as journalists should be investigating why Swansea Council has been very sparse regarding the information the electorate has requested on the Slip Bridge, and then report the actual facts.

Why is it that children in schools across Swansea have been writing poems about the Slip Bridge, fearing its destruction? It's not a case of nostalgia here. Also, would the Evening Post please let its readers know, apart from Beau Nash House in Caer Street and the restored St Mary's Church, which buildings in post-war Swansea you would say have architectural merit.

I agree with Councillor Des Thomas regarding the felling of four trees on the promenade for the re-siting of the span of the Slip Bridge. They should not have been cut down. But let us not forget it was the old Labour administration that caused this initially.

The Labour administration at the time should have arranged for an inspection and repairs to the bridge in situ. It would have been far more practical and economical. If Councillor Des Thomas has great respect for trees, as I have, I suggest he and his colleagues immediately implement a preservation order on the horse chestnut trees that are flourishing in between the Morgan Court luxury apartments and the abutments of the Slip Bridge at St Helen's.

E Ford
Middle Road
Gendros, Swansea