By Brian C. Edwards
ISBN-10: 0750612983
ISBN-13: 9780750612982
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Instead, marble, stock brick and polished granite adjoin public routes with barely a blemish. Critics will point to the army of security guards patrolling the prestige developments, but a mixture of design in high quality materials and good surveillance of private and public space appears an effective solution to this perennial problem. One important power possessed by the corporation is that of compulsory purchase. Compulsory purchase orders (CPOs) have been employed to parcel together sufficient land to allow the bigger projects to go ahead, and to ensure a measure of public amenity.
Some of the roads have been necessary to service new development such as the additional routes to Canary Wharf and Heron Quays, but others are required to fulfil the development potential of more peripheral areas. For example, the construction of the Lower Lea river crossing unlocks the poten tial of the Royal Docks, and at Surrey Docks a new distributor road linking with the A200 allowed the construction of a Tesco supermarket and other commercial developments in the mid 1980s. Roads are undoubtedly a catalyst for change, but they can become physi cal barriers isolating areas of the city.
Designed by Arup Associates, Island Gardens is the most successful of the DLR stations. The rotunda makes reference to a similar one serving the pedestrian tunnel under the Thames which is located nearby in Island Gardens Park (photo: LDDC) scale to meet peak hour demands, and at present £400 million is being spent upgrading the track and increasing the size and frequency of trains. A system designed to carry 20,000 people per day now regularly transports more than 30,000, and at peak times trains routinely carry three times the projected ridership.