Monday’s Friday Reads – 28 February 2022

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• London Emirates cable car line fails to find new sponsor (Guardian)

• Bank Station Capacity Upgrade video walkthrough (HiddenLondonHangouts)

• NY MTA vows $10B+ transit expansion by 2030 (NYDailyNews)

• Work beginning on High Line connection to Moynihan Train Hall (SecretNYC)

• Tramway & cable car lines proposed to relieve Andorra’s roads (MetroReport)

• Zaha Hadid designed flowing Ukraine Metro stations (Dezeen)

• E-scooter firms collaborate on universal warning sound (CitiesToday)

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9 comments

  1. New York Daily News: “Unfortunately, our website is currently unavailable in your country.” – right.
    Can this be fixed?

    As for a universal warning sound for e-scooters – the first thought is, um “Not suitable for a family magazine”
    … And the second is a continuous loop playing J P Sousa’s “Liberty Bell”

  3. Seems to me that Khan will have to sell or lease the Dangleway to a commercial operator. No way it can wash its face without the sponsorship money.

  4. It would be whimsical to describe the unwanted, unloved, unfinanced cableway a basket case, but it’s hard to see working future for it. Have any costs of closure/making safe/demolition been identified?

  5. Garry B
    There is a political Elephant in this room.
    The Dangleway was B Johnson’s PET project … can you imagine the volume of hatred, spite & misinformation that would be spewed out if Khand did the sensible thing & sold it off for scrap?

    P.S. Like the “Hanging-Basket Case” pun, though.

  6. Perhaps it could be moved to serve the very-much-needed Barking Riverside to Thamesmead link? It would really be useful if these two locations were linked up.

    Thamesmead to Barking Riverside is at best a bus, the DLR, the District Line and another bus… Even when the Overground link opens it will be still almost the 78 minutes it takes now, whereas a cable connection would be 10 minutes.

  7. @Paul

    I’d read somewhere that the cable car in normal (non-plague) times actually covered it’s operating costs, due to being quite energy efficient. Descending cabins pull the ascending cabins up, minimal friction, very light cabins.

    However not so much as to cover much of the initial construction costs.

  8. Brian Butterworth: I doubt there’s much beyond the cabins themselves and the equipment at each terminal that would even theoretically be reusable. If someone was costing a Barking Riverside-Thamesmead link they would have to go though all the design and estimation to decide whether the current fixed equipment is sufficiently capable for what appears to me to be a longer span and decide on the configuration they want for a link in a flat area with a N-S orientation where the prevailing wind is westerly. If it were me, I’d opt for the two widely spaced cable “Funitel” type. For a longer span, more would be needed. Even if feasible, my guess is that re-use would change the estimate from 100% for all new to somewhere between 95% and 105%. Yes, re-use could end up costing more!

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