please empty your brain below

Sounds brilliant [rushes off to North Greenwich with a plan to stay there all day]
Hope they resume the 5 minute crossings once the film showing season ends.
dg must be one of the Thames cable cars most frequent riders now!
Shame they couldn't come up with sponsorship and entertainment when bits of the Underground were dropping off in the 1990s. At least they were more likely to have real commuters inconvenienced by the closure.

"Emirates Epping-Ongar branch" anyone?
the new "garden bridge" is shaping up to be the next dangleway. a publicly funded tourist attraction.
The list of attractions excludes the excellent Docklands Museum.
I reckon DG is keeping the cable car profitable being one of their best customers.
Indeed. For someone so incessantly critical of the cablecar, DG does seem to spend a hell of a lot of time on it.
The things people will do in the name of Research. Thanks, DG. Think I'll go get the DVD & skip dangling in the air!
o.k no else is going to say it so i will. the answer is quite simple... although like everything it not cheap. but remember where you heard it first. take said "cable transport system" remove from location and place in proposed location of a certain "garden bridge". yeah...radical idea huh? oh and if "they" still really into the idea of building a new bridge well guess what...there be a great new location for a proper one that takes buses & cyclists.
Another naff rip-off "winter wonderland" experience... Just needs Boris dressed up in a Santa suit.
The dangleway is a shockingly poor use of London's public transport money.

The garden bridge will be just as bad - no groups, no bikes, closed from midnight to 6am, closed from time to time for private events. If (*if*) another pedestrian bridge is required, why not just copy the Millennium (wobbly) Bridge. It cost about £25m, including the modifications to remove the wobble.
@Andrew, so the *construction* cost of the Millennium Bridge and the 'dangleway' were not much different then ?
^^ Millennium Bridge has a "no cycling" rule. So much for "shared spaces". If a new so-called "pedestrian" bridge is built perhaps a cycle lane on it would be nice.
That's because it is called the 'London Millennium Footbridge' - the clue is in the title....
I love it when DG exposes marketing hype for what it really is, and especially when it concerns the Dangleway!
@comment at 4:25 p.m.:
Is there some law against walking one's bicycle across the bridge, to take up cycling again once one reaches the other side? Seems to me that would be a logical solution to that no-cycling problem.
In it's list of bridge clearances, PLA includes the cable car.
Technically wheeling a cycle counts as riding it because you are in control of both its speed and direction. In practice no one would prevent you doing this. If you carry it then there is absolutely nothing anyone can do to stop you.

For many years you could legally steer a towed vehicle without a licence because technically you weren't driving it as you were not able to control the speed. Also for many years motorists weren't legally obliged to stop at a zebra crossing if pushing your bike because technically you weren't a pedestrian.

The issue raised is more of an issue with horses. If a path prohibits horses then this prohibition applies even if walking your horse. If course if you could carry it ...
The Dangleway features on the Boris Johnson designed Paddington Bear in Trafalgar Square!










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