28-03-2024 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk

Marylebone Makeover: Rain gardens to flourish in former pedestrian subway

One of London’s biggest sustainable urban drainage systems (SUDS) is about to be built in the derelict pedestrian subway under the Marylebone flyover.The subway, once seen as the future to divert annoying pedestrians away from the important motorists, spent most of its life as a hangout for the homeless — although later named after Joe Strummer, a musician of some note who once busked here, it finally closed in 2018.
The subway in Oct 2017 (c) ianVisits
Usually, the closure of a subw
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