Post by thirstquensher on Mar 11, 2009 14:35:42 GMT
All of this was exactly what was going through my head last time I was in the lifts at Queensway (or was it Covent Garden?) I was thinking to myself, "isn't a lift just a vertical tube"? I also mused that the lift was simply a vertical part of the transport solution, whereas the trains undertook the horizontal part.
Wouldn't it be great if every tube station just had everyone walk into a translocation pod that did the vertical bits at each end, and the horizontal bits in-between?
You'd need some sort of adaptable undercarriage, but I'm sure it could be done. One major problem of course is how to stagger the various pods so that those who want to exit at one station can do so and those who don't end up in a pod that's just going to carry on.
So, on second thoughts, completely undoable!
The closest we have to 'transformer-style' transport of course is the Duck Bus - something that could have come out of a Gerry Anderson creation (admittedly one of the low-rent early black-and-white ones)!
Wouldn't it be great if every tube station just had everyone walk into a translocation pod that did the vertical bits at each end, and the horizontal bits in-between?
You'd need some sort of adaptable undercarriage, but I'm sure it could be done. One major problem of course is how to stagger the various pods so that those who want to exit at one station can do so and those who don't end up in a pod that's just going to carry on.
So, on second thoughts, completely undoable!
The closest we have to 'transformer-style' transport of course is the Duck Bus - something that could have come out of a Gerry Anderson creation (admittedly one of the low-rent early black-and-white ones)!
