PhotoChallenge 2008 - Regeneration

All over London there are cranes sprouting up like spring-has-come-early crocuses dotting the landscape with regeneration, some days I wish I had shares in Ainscough.

Else where in London millions (in this case 10m according to DG - if you take the 11.5m/year and chop it into 10 months) are being uprooted from their daily lives as the post Metronet enthusiasm means the underground network regeneration (which may or may not finish by 2012) closes stations and lines off. For instance this weekend I only have one of the three tube lines open - and it happens to be the most unreliable, and the least useful, still its all for our future.

Thirdly, our friends at Thames Water (who I originally thought were the other party in the photo, but it’s in fact EDF Energy - so just imagine that bit - are replacing 60,000 miles of sewage and water piping that has been left dormant since the Victorian era, I’ll try and get a shot of some of the old piping (if it is still there, but it’s pretty sickening that we drink through that!) meaningroads are closed for weeks, it’s taken 4 months to just complete the road I live on, section by section.

Sometimes I wish that I lived a couple of years in the futurue when it was all complete, but mostly it’s proably a good thing to see the old and the new, it is indeed very warming to see the change happening around me, somehting that pushes me to improve everyday.