Bikes in a tube
Via BldgBlog, a strange proposal for elevated bike tunnels over Toronto:
Now, I like biking in good weather as much as any other red-blooded urbanite, but this is perhaps the dumbest urban planning idea since Robert Moses went up to that big cloverleaf interchange in the sky. Some concerns:
- How do you get in or out? With those winds, it could be rough.
- What about accidents? I'm sure we've all see those big Tour de France pileups - could you imagine the legal liabilities?
- Everybody can drive at the same speed (assuming adherence to the speed limit), but not everyone can bike as fast as the fastest bikers. How can you pass people in a narrow tube?
- How can you win over senior voters to fund a transit system only usable by healthy people?
Still, this reminds me of the New New York transit system from Futurama:
I wonder if that's where the inspiration came from.
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rj3 | 11:19 AM |
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