Egg Centric
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This thread claims that TFL may close the Waterloo and City. While I don't expect that this is true, what could be done with the infrastructure if this were the case?
Three ideas come to my head - the first is an extra rapid travelator; I've never heard of one of these but by the same token a mechanism for creating one seems pretty obvious to me (basically sidestepping onto incrementally higher speeds with 'messed it up lanes' for those who don't side step in time) so I assume they could exist. The second is a personal pod transit like the business car park at T5 at Heathrow. Finally, and less excitingly but tremendously simple would be electric bikes - this may sound a bit silly, but you could easily give them extra wide handlebars and have narrow doorways at the platforms such that they'd be almost impossible to steal.
What else could be done and how do they compare to just reopening the thing?
Three ideas come to my head - the first is an extra rapid travelator; I've never heard of one of these but by the same token a mechanism for creating one seems pretty obvious to me (basically sidestepping onto incrementally higher speeds with 'messed it up lanes' for those who don't side step in time) so I assume they could exist. The second is a personal pod transit like the business car park at T5 at Heathrow. Finally, and less excitingly but tremendously simple would be electric bikes - this may sound a bit silly, but you could easily give them extra wide handlebars and have narrow doorways at the platforms such that they'd be almost impossible to steal.
What else could be done and how do they compare to just reopening the thing?