please empty your brain below
Boring.

BillyBoy | 28.11.12 - 7:32 a.m. | #

BillyBoy:You're reading the wrong blog, please don't be so rude. We regular readers love this sort of stuff.
Did everyone see that programme on the BBC last week showing a dangle way that is useful - in a favela of Rio, where building density and steep slopes ruled out a bus service.

IslandDweller | 28.11.12 - 7:55 a.m. | #

Look out for the twinning of Royal Greenwich with the Rio favela, then...

Gordon | 28.11.12 - 9:23 a.m. | #

"two days when the cablecar was mostly suspended"
I thought the idea was that a cable car be mostly suspended? :-)

James | 28.11.12 - 9:42 a.m. | #

Billyboy - read Monday's blog then.

| 28.11.12 - 9:52 a.m. | #

Bit unfair to judge it in November with poor weather and dark evenings. Let's see what it gets come the Spring and Summer when the figures are not pumped up by the Olympics. We can better judge the ride then using figures for a full year. I'm sure it will be better than "poorly".

Phil | 28.11.12 - 12:03 p.m. | #

There is another angle which some of the cable car detractors miss. The cable car, combined with the Siemens Crystal, has brought life and animation to a rather dull corner of the docklands that, before, you would only pass through en route to the Excel or O2. Regeneration is about buzz as much as transport.

Ian Brooker | 28.11.12 - 1:09 p.m. | #

Interesting that the Dangleway has the opposite problem to much of the network (particularly in the centre): nowhere near capacity vs. well over capacity.

Darren S | 28.11.12 - 1:10 p.m. | #

@James - I'd hope a cable car would be *entirely* suspended, tbh...

disgruntled | Homepage | 28.11.12 - 1:12 p.m. | #

What was going on in the week ending 3rd November?

Vicki Ganrer | 28.11.12 - 1:57 p.m. | #

Vicki: End of first para = 'half-term'

nick | 28.11.12 - 2:38 p.m. | #

Just noticed this on Ianvisit's site - a conference on cable cars as urban transport.

http://www.ianvisits.co.uk/calendar/detail.php?uid=22949

There may well be some comments on the dangleway there.

Martin | 28.11.12 - 3:07 p.m. | #

@ Billyboy - nowhere near as boring as it must be being one of the poor Dangleway employees sitting waiting for someone to turn up to use the thing!

@ Ian B - People can have all the buzz they like provided the public sector isn't paying for it. The Dangleway is a monstrous waste of scarce public funds that could have been spent in far more effective ways. The list of those "ways" is pratically endless given the massive demands for improved transport services in London.

PC | 28.11.12 - 4:10 p.m. | #

I suspect BillyBoy *had* read Monday's post and his comment above was intended as a compliment.

Great Aunt Annie | 28.11.12 - 6:28 p.m. | #

I'm surprised early evenings would reduce demand. It may be pointless and expensive; but after dark it is magical.

trainsofthought | Homepage | 28.11.12 - 10:15 p.m. | #

PC :"@ Ian B - People can have all the buzz they like provided the public sector isn't paying for it. The Dangleway is a monstrous waste of scarce public funds that could have been spent in far more effective ways. The list of those "ways" is pratically endless given the massive demands for improved transport services in London. "

You couldn't be more wrong! the whole of the Docklands development has been catalysed by public sector investment, notably in transport. The "buzz" is not the thrill of the ride, but the impact of people passing through and visiting an otherwise quiet area. This has huge benefits, including generating jobs.

And as DG has shown today from TfL documents, it is NOT costing us much at all.

Ian Brooker | 29.11.12 - 4:32 p.m. | #

I was in the Capital and travelled "as a tourist" on the Emerates Air Line this week and very nice it was too. Mind you it was eerily quite on a wind swept Wednesday Midday. A one off experience for a lot of people I suspect.

IanB | 30.11.12 - 3:47 p.m. | #

And for the week of this post, ending 1st December, the total was only 25,266.
Half of September.

diamond geezer | Homepage | 05.12.12 - 6:38 p.m. | #











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