Brighton i360 construction update.

[BRIGHT ON Q]

Look at what we could have won:-

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No way is that real....not at that speed anyway.

 

[Westdene Seagull]

And yet another default in payments ..... I'm sure TLO will be on soon to suggest we were all scaremongering at the incompetence of the councillors that voted for the loan.

 

[Horton's halftime iceberg]

Look at what we could have won:-

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That is mental

 

[symyjym]

And yet another default in payments ..... I'm sure TLO will be on soon to suggest we were all scaremongering at the incompetence of the councillors that voted for the loan.

Yes total incompetence by our council officers, cough! Geoff Raw and his cough! partners in crime, who devised the plan for the loan against the council tax payer. The i360 was overwhelmingly more important to themselves personally than developing the King Alfred into a state of the art leisure centre which would be of benefit to the community.

This i360 project was supposed to draw more people into the city when all it does is give the people who would have come here anyway something different to do for 1/2 hour.

This council is a joke and it runs deeper than the parties being voted in and out of it because while they come and go, the constant force remains.

 

[Westdene Seagull]

Yes total incompetence by our council officers, cough! Geoff Raw and his cough! partners in crime, who devised the plan for the loan against the council tax payer. The i360 was overwhelmingly more important to themselves personally than developing the King Alfred into a state of the art leisure centre which would be of benefit to the community.

This i360 project was supposed to draw more people into the city when all it does is give the people who would have come here anyway something different to do for 1/2 hour.

This council is a joke and it runs deeper than the parties being voted in and out of it because while they come and go, the constant force remains.

I've just re-read the whole thread ..... there's quite a number of people with egg on their face !!!!!

 

[symyjym]

I've just re-read the whole thread ..... there's quite a number of people with egg on their face !!!!!

Yep, I should have a look back myself. I started this thread with an interest in the engineering and documenting the build but I have always been cynical of the people behind it and always doubted the folly.

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

This i360 project was supposed to draw more people into the city when all it does is give the people who would have come here anyway something different to do for 1/2 hour.

There seems to be this mad urge to majorly disfigure the seafront with overpriced crap like the i360, that dismal zipwire thing and before those the Brighton Eye, where the view and general experience was so lame that you got to go round three times. The council don't seem to realise what draws people to Brighton. First-timers want to see and be seen at the Pavilion and the Pier. Hen and stag parties want the bars, the clubs and the Pier. And everybody loves a beach. Even our beach. Few takers IMHO for overpriced lame attractions when you can get all the good stuff for free.

 

[Bold Seagull]

That is mental

and fake.

https://edition.cnn.com/2019/06/14/us/south-korean-attraction-is-fake-trnd/index.html

 

[drew]

It's also fake.

 

[Horton's halftime iceberg]

and fake.

https://edition.cnn.com/2019/06/14/us/south-korean-attraction-is-fake-trnd/index.html

Sure but mental (the idea)

 

[goldstone]

There seems to be this mad urge to majorly disfigure the seafront with overpriced crap like the i360, that dismal zipwire thing and before those the Brighton Eye, where the view and general experience was so lame that you got to go round three times. The council don't seem to realise what draws people to Brighton. First-timers want to see and be seen at the Pavilion and the Pier. Hen and stag parties want the bars, the clubs and the Pier. And everybody loves a beach. Even our beach. Few takers IMHO for overpriced lame attractions when you can get all the good stuff for free.

And the majority of visitors and residents would like to see a city that's not overrun with homeless people and covered with graffiti, both problems which could have been addressed with a small percentage of the money wasted on the i360 eyesore.

 

[Westdene Seagull]

There seems to be this mad urge to majorly disfigure the seafront with overpriced crap like the i360, that dismal zipwire thing and before those the Brighton Eye, where the view and general experience was so lame that you got to go round three times. The council don't seem to realise what draws people to Brighton. First-timers want to see and be seen at the Pavilion and the Pier. Hen and stag parties want the bars, the clubs and the Pier. And everybody loves a beach. Even our beach. Few takers IMHO for overpriced lame attractions when you can get all the good stuff for free.

Indeed. Went down to the beach behind Hove Lagoon yesterday evening .... beautiful, calming place and for free ..... no need for stupid expensive erections.

 

[symyjym]

What is really interesting though is that I am fairly sure that to take it down would be more expensive than erecting it. I don't think that the building method worked backwards would be possible because the cans would have welded themselves together under the pressure of the weight. It will probably last longer than Brighton will, a bit like the Statue of Liberty at the end of the Planet of the Apes film.

 

[Seasidesage]

Use it as the base for a zip wire to the Marina. It'll be rammed with nutters 24/7

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

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Morning after Saints match - wear the stripes

 

[osgood]

It would have to bomb spectacularly for the council to get stiffed on the deal. As I understand it this is a long term deal and money starts coming into the council as soon as the thing is open. Obviously it is not a guaranteed success, nothing is, but the judgement has been made that it is worthwhile.

The council needs to get money from wherever it can as its budget has been constantly slashed by central govt over the past few years. It cannot raise additional council tax, it's can only push car parking so far. The i-360 is a possible source of additional revenue for the council, they would have been remiss in not exploring this opportunity.

Outside grants and inward investment are now becoming more important than ever for not only BHCC but councils all over the country.

I must confess to be a glass half full person so I am more inclined to see the positive side of things than others. Remember that this attraction is aimed at visitors (of whom we have record numbers a the moment) not residents, this would just be another part of their tourist experience. With the additional conference facilities on a prime seafront location I think the scheme has chance of being a reasonable success.

Hows yer glass now ?

 

[mothy]

The required visitor numbers to be viable were always unachievable.

Even so - I think it's a great attraction on the seafront & has helped as a key anchor tenant for all the regeneration & businesses that have taken place around it & made an unloved area of the seafront an attractive destination.

That with shelter hall, Hove beach park rockwater etc. Just the king Alfred replacement, madeira terraces repairs & black rock to go (& the monorail & replacement west pier)