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« Reply #1 on: June 18, 2012, 14:14:50 » |
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So it is ready before the Olympics. How confusing....!  What a waste of money. This really shows how Ken was a better than Boris. This is pretty much the only thing that Boris will have to his name (apart from the waste of money buses). |
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« Reply #2 on: June 19, 2012, 07:06:51 » |
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What a waste of money.
I think I'll reserve judgement on whether this is a waste of money or not once we see how popular it is. I have a feeling that it will be well used. |
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« Reply #3 on: June 19, 2012, 11:13:06 » |
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Cable Car? To me, cable cars are the large things with only one on each cable (there was normally a second cable with a second car next to it) that stop moving at each end. The photograph seems to show what I think of as a gondala, a circuit of many constantly moving small things.
A gondala is therefore more like a chair-lift, whereas cable cars stop at each end for many passengers to board. As I said, with cable cars there tends to be two with one going each way, a bit like the water-balanced cliff-railway at the centre for alternative technology but not power by the weight of water like that is.
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« Reply #4 on: June 19, 2012, 18:21:23 » |
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With a home in the borough of Greenwich, I am happy especially as it it is going to be available to bicycles. A sort of YPIMBY.
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« Reply #5 on: June 28, 2012, 20:56:51 » |
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So it is ready before the Olympics. How confusing....! What a waste of money. This really shows how Ken was a better than Boris. This is pretty much the only thing that Boris will have to his name (apart from the waste of money buses). Don't forget the bikes! I'm not sure if it will be a waste of money, evening standard pointed out that fares should at least cover operating costs if not some of the capital expenditure. That is better than many other transport schemes! |
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« Reply #6 on: June 28, 2012, 21:34:41 » |
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Don't forget the bikes!
I'm not sure if it will be a waste of money, evening standard pointed out that fares should at least cover operating costs if not some of the capital expenditure. That is better than many other transport schemes!
NO, contrary to popular belief, the bikes were initiated by Ken. It normally takes about 4 years for a vision to come to futution. Apart from a new bus and this cable car, Boris has done nothing for transport (apart from axing various schemes). And unless you want to go from the O2 to the Exhibition Centre, it's pointless. It doesn't even go to Canary Wharf... |
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« Reply #7 on: June 29, 2012, 10:12:48 » |
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So it is ready before the Olympics. How confusing....! What a waste of money. This really shows how Ken was a better than Boris. This is pretty much the only thing that Boris will have to his name (apart from the waste of money buses). Don't forget the bikes! I'm not sure if it will be a waste of money, evening standard pointed out that fares should at least cover operating costs if not some of the capital expenditure. That is better than many other transport schemes! Emirates covered about half of the capital costs. |
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« Reply #8 on: June 29, 2012, 17:44:47 » |
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It should have been totally privately funded but tax payers have put in millions. It is only planned to break even so there is no way of getting that money back.
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« Reply #9 on: June 29, 2012, 18:27:27 » |
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Boris has done nothing for transport (apart from axing various schemes).
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« Reply #10 on: June 29, 2012, 21:42:29 » |
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Boris has done nothing for transport (apart from axing various schemes).
Can you take your politics elsewhere please Name something for Transport that Boris has done then (I also missed removing the Western Congestion Charge). If you lived along the line of the proposed DLR▸ that was axed and then saw this Cable car, I think you'd be annoyed! |
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« Reply #11 on: June 29, 2012, 22:17:57 » |
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EBrown has made a good request here, let's leave the politics to other forums. Thanks.
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« Reply #12 on: July 01, 2012, 19:52:56 » |
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I'm looking forward to a ride on it when I go to London next, providing the queue isn't too long.
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« Reply #13 on: July 01, 2012, 20:12:04 » |
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I'm looking forward to a ride on it when I go to London next, providing the queue isn't too long.
Huge queues this evening at platform 9.75 at King's Cross ... looks like we're in for a busy summer! |
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« Reply #14 on: July 01, 2012, 20:14:07 » |
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EBrown has made a good request here, let's leave the politics to other forums. Thanks.
Many aspects of the railway contain politics. Many posts on this forum involve political tinkering in some way. Without politics there are no railways. Besides, I wasn't making a political point nor stating a political opinion (I like Boris in many ways btw  ). I was merely stating a fact. I can't wait to go on the cable car either. |
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