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"Marty Wallace" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> "Laurence Dodd" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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>> My idea, which I think I first had perhaps three or four years ago,
>> is to build a montrosity of a road way for cycles.
>> Basically, think of two giant parallel ramps in opposite directions
>> that span at least 30 km (to make them practical). The downside is
>> that something so big would be a blight on the environment to build
>> and to live in the shadow of. Imagine this thing putting its shadow
>> over Logan and Brisbane. Personally, I think this is why it should
>> not be built.
>> In theory, the idea is that each ramp would span a high density
>> population area and have elevators from the ground up to the roadway
>> at various points along the ramp. One would take the nearest
>> elevator up to the ramp roadway (the ramp going down in the
>> direction they wish to travel). Once you roll onto the surface of
>> the ramp from the elevator you can roll down all the way to the exit
>> you wish to take, or until the last exit where the ramp reaches the
>> ground level. These ramps could even be covered for wind and rain
>> protection to allow all weather, high speed, long distance
>> commuting. Just to make sure you get the gist of this idea, the
>> purpose is that one only rides downhill for the whole commute along
>> the ramp. Each ramp is one direction only, down, and would have
>> merging lanes from each elevator, and a braking lane on the approach
>> to each elevator. You could consider it an elevated highway for
>> cycles. However, I am more inclined to favor the decentralisation
>> of administration and industry so that each local area hires its
>> local people for local business. This is a local shop, we'll have
>> no trouble here!
[piggybacking]
Hippy and Dutchy would never get to work. They'd just spend their lives
going in an aero tuck trying to get break their latest downhill
speed/cadence record.
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> "Laurence Dodd" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
>> My idea, which I think I first had perhaps three or four years ago,
>> is to build a montrosity of a road way for cycles.
>> Basically, think of two giant parallel ramps in opposite directions
>> that span at least 30 km (to make them practical). The downside is
>> that something so big would be a blight on the environment to build
>> and to live in the shadow of. Imagine this thing putting its shadow
>> over Logan and Brisbane. Personally, I think this is why it should
>> not be built.
>> In theory, the idea is that each ramp would span a high density
>> population area and have elevators from the ground up to the roadway
>> at various points along the ramp. One would take the nearest
>> elevator up to the ramp roadway (the ramp going down in the
>> direction they wish to travel). Once you roll onto the surface of
>> the ramp from the elevator you can roll down all the way to the exit
>> you wish to take, or until the last exit where the ramp reaches the
>> ground level. These ramps could even be covered for wind and rain
>> protection to allow all weather, high speed, long distance
>> commuting. Just to make sure you get the gist of this idea, the
>> purpose is that one only rides downhill for the whole commute along
>> the ramp. Each ramp is one direction only, down, and would have
>> merging lanes from each elevator, and a braking lane on the approach
>> to each elevator. You could consider it an elevated highway for
>> cycles. However, I am more inclined to favor the decentralisation
>> of administration and industry so that each local area hires its
>> local people for local business. This is a local shop, we'll have
>> no trouble here!
[piggybacking]
Hippy and Dutchy would never get to work. They'd just spend their lives
going in an aero tuck trying to get break their latest downhill
speed/cadence record.
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