PUPILS at a Glasgow primary school are flying the flag for the Bridge to Nowhere.

PUPILS at a Glasgow primary school are flying the flag for the Bridge to Nowhere.

Today city residents can vote for an unfinished bridge to get £1million of Lottery cash for a major completion project.

Youngsters at St Patrick's Primary in Anderston have already thrown their weight behind the project.

They have written to the council urging them to finish the footbridge which ends abruptly in mid-air near the Marriot Hotel car park.

It was originally part of a 1960s planning scheme in which the bridge was to be the main pedestrian route across the motorway to the Anderston shopping centre.

However plans for the shopping centre were shelved and work on the half completed bridge was left in mid air - literally.

Today the bridge is up against a number of other projects, including the Eden Project in Cornwall, bidding for a total of £50m of Lottery cash.

Pupils from St Patrick's decided to start lobbying early and wrote to Adam Bows of the city council, who is in charge of moves to complete the bridge for pedestrians and cyclists.

Imran Alcram, 10, wrote: "Please could you help us build the bridge to somewhere?

"It would make the community a lot happier."

Completing the Bridge to Nowhere is one of 79 schemes which form the Connect2 bid by Sustrans, the United Kingdom's leading sustainable transport charity.

A spokesman said: "The project which has the largest number of public votes will be announced live on ITV on Sunday.

"It is vital to cast your vote for Glasgow and vote for Connect2."

Councillor Ruth Simpson, the city council's executive member for land and environmental services, said: "I would urge everyone to vote."

To vote, log on to www.thepeoples50 million.org.uk.