RE: [OT] Wacky!

["Mark Harrison" <Mark.Harrison@xxxxxxx>]

Do you feel the same way about trains?

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I don't see this as a REPLACEMENT for cars, buses, taxis, trams and
trains, but as an alternative.

My journey goes roughly:

- From home to station (by car, dropped off my wife) 	15 minutes
- From entrance to station to platform (by foot)	4 minutes
- On the train							35
minutes
- From platform to bus stop					4
minutes
- Waiting for bus
10 minutes (or much longer on the tube!)
- On the bus							15
minutes
- From bus stop to office					5
minutes

Total
88 minutes - yeah, about an hour 20 feels right!

I'm guessing that a "skyrail" system would only be commercially
viable
in the "Central London" part of the journey.

Say it could bring down the "waiting for bus" from 10 minutes to
3, and
"on the bus" from 15 to 10 that would save 12 minutes a journey.

12 minutes a day is 24 minutes a day, or 2 hours a week, or 100 hours a
year (two working weeks!)

I'd pay an extra couple of hundred quid a year on my season ticket for
that! After all, I already pay just over THREE GRAND for it!

Mark Harrison
Head of Systems, eKingfisher



-----Original Message-----
From: Andy Laurence [mailto:andylaurence@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 6 December 2001 15:55
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [ukha_d] [OT] Wacky!


> > I can't help thinking that if it was ever built it'd look awful
having
> > hundreds of these monorails overhead.  It'd be cool for the first
week,
but
> > then it'd be annoying.
>
> As annoying as having hundreds of cars driving past at that speed?

Yes.  The thing about cars is that each one is different.  When each
vehicle
on the monorail looks the same it gets boring, but each car is
different, so
it doesn't seem so mundane.  It'd be like Bill Murray in Groundhog Day -
great for the first week, but boring after a while.

Andy (and his not so humble opinion)
--
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