Yes! Some common sense has prevailed. The London Garden Bridge project is being abandoned.

It was a nice idea, but in the wrong place and wrongly conceived as a commercial project which would feed off the public purse. How much better to use the concept and the funding to green London’s abandoned railways tracks and other such to increase London’s green space as the Mayor, Sadiq Khan, has pledged to do. That would make the money go a lot further, but then it’s not “willy waving” is it!
Let’s hope this is the first of many vanity projects to bite the dust – yes I’m looking at you Brexit, HS2, Heathrow Runway 3 …