Would this be a good idea for public transport in London?

Question

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOQyFYXQSEQ

Answer 1

Its brilliant but the government would endlessly moan about cost. Ive got a brilliant book called "London As It Might Have Been" - its full of plans and designs for the city that were never adopted. As far back as the 1850s there was a plan for an overhead steam railway, to run all over central london, which of course was never adopted. I bet if we could come back in 100 years or so, this kind of thing will be everywhere...

Answer 2

It's pretty impressive, fast, congestion free and clean.  It looks great, and would go a long way to ease public transport congestion.  It looks awesome too, but I can imagine big issues when it comes to bridges crossing, and along roads where high vehicles usually pass.

  Will it ever happen?  Probably not.  I imagine the cost would be massive, and the number of objections it would receive would potentially hold up any construction for ages!

Answer 3

the first thing that I thought was what if a car hit one of the supports?... that could mean disaster for passengers of the train... though in the movie, they were not going that fast... it would probably go a little quicker than that in real life.

Answer 4

It requires a bit more development.

As shown, the bottom of the carriages was closer to the road surface than the top of the double-decker buses. I'd hate to see the results of a bus, swerving to avoid an obstruction on the road, clipping the bottom of one of the carriages.

Also, the rails (and especially the stations) would block out a considerable amount of daylight from the streets, making some streets (even Oxford Street, which isn't really very wide) rather unpleasant places for pedestrians.

Answer 5

Excellent idea as long as the smelly government dont make me pay £100 a month to travel on it crammed like a sardine can. (The cheek of london underground i tell thee - huff)

Answer 6

I think it is a great idea for public transport anywhere.

It would also go a long way towards lowering the carnage at railroad/highway crossings at grade, which, despite all that has been said and done, continues to rise each year, here in the US.

Every 18 seconds someone gets greased.  Stop, look, listen and live.

Answer 7

It's all a bit over my head.

Answer 8

Buy a pass that is good for the subway and the busses.

Go to a particular area on the subway then get on the bus and ride the entire route,

Plot where you are on your map, then you get the best feelling!

The central part is quite walkable!

Cheerio,

Answer 9

As long as it transports people to one place to another,yes!

Answer 10

at least it would stop the buses pulling out infront of you as if they own the road