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@ben cooper...but you'd have a struggle getting a battery-powered wheelchair up the armadillo
Not if you use a winch. Easy.
Better idea, 'cos cable cars are expensive: a trebuchet. It'd have to be a big one, and you'd have to have a net on the Kilpatricks to catch them (or just aim for Cochno Loch). It'd be a new exciting adventure experience. It's so much more practical - funny to watch for the bystanders, it's a parabolic arc so further away from the intermediate areas, and you can stop firing when an aircraft is passing so no air traffic problems.
Why would people from 'day care centres all over ayrshire' use the kilpatricks? Genuinely interested in your reasoning as we have lots of walking routes down here that aren't filled with people from day care centres at the moment.
Would be great if you could answer that question, properly without pie in the sky (pardon the pun) nonsense.
a trebuchet. It'd have to be a big one, and you'd have to have a net on the Kilpatricks to catch them (or just aim for Cochno Loch).
I think Glasgow airport would have something to say about that. No it'd need to be a cable car. Besides trebucheting a wheelchair would be frowned upon.
Well, you time it between flights, obviously - it wouldn't be safe otherwise. And you'd send bikes, telescopes, wheelchairs as a separate load.
@garym
Error on my part...meant to say [i]drop in[/i] centres for people with (but not exclusively), mental health problems.
It's an alternative to a day trip to Millport, m and d's, the Viking centre at largs, laser tag, indoor karting, the pool tournament and the cinema.
Are cable cars expensive?
It's all relative to the price of oil. We're at an all time low, price wise?
But we tend to take it for granted, unless you're skint.
It takes a phenomenal amount of energy to move a car. All a cable car is, is a vehicle with all the heavy parts removed.. Kind of like a car assembly line in reverse.
The motor is separate, which makes sense as your trying to make the people carrying part as light as possible.
Still money well spent, because when you buy and run a motor car, all that money is going to Christ knows where...it tends to leave the local economy pretty sharpish.
It would be different if the car companies had their r&d here in Scotland, with loads of people on huge salaries to go back into the local economy.
And then there's the cancer. Apparently the pollution is far worse inside the car.. even worse than commuting by bike, or walking past the gridlock.
Btw, I had considered the trebuchet, but the best calculation I could achieve was a 35 percent survival rate (weather permitting)!!!
As for the idea of opening up the old railway tunnels, I'm sure it gets mooted every few years.
Afaik, there's a tunnel right out to springburn??
Maybe it's all wrapped up in land ownership snafu's.
Reminded me of the time i was walking along great western road just as the university was closing for the night. Loads of cars piling out, probably in the direction of the motorway.
It kind of demonstrated, in microcosm, our problems with transport planning and infrastructure.
Here were some of the best minds in the country, experts in all kinds of things like engineering and urban planning.
But, they're each in their own wee bubble, despite waiting at the same traffic lights each day to get home.
Maybe the uni has worked something out to get its employees to work without clogging up the roads.
You get rid of a lot of the traffic along the gwr and you could bring back trams?
They've got a park and ride at Alton towers, why not between Glasgow uni and some place?
They're probably major landowners in this area.
Ps. They also own a big chunk of land at the foot of Cochno hill, just short of the reservoirs, complete with veterinary school and observatory.
'Pps. The eu has announced a final submission date for structural aid and its this Autumn.
Bu&&er!
A cable car still seems like the most energy efficient way to get people from sea level to 1000ft (approx)
The kilpatricks are hardly going to compete with the 7 stanes. You'd be over-biked on a cyclocrosser most of the time (descent to gavinburn excepted...that's a bit more gnarly)
Even though an e-bike kit is on the horizon and as near effortless this would make getting my near 20 stone up the kilpatricks, it's still a lot of faffing about.
Once I'm north of anniesland, I'm hoping I can outrun any teenage skunkwdeed dealers once I reach peel glen road.
I just don't feel comfortable going through these parts of town...feels like I'm on someone else's 'manor'
It takes a phenomenal amount of energy to move a car.
How much energy does it take to move several miles of heavy steel cable?
I just don't feel comfortable going through these parts of town...
I live in one of those parts of town.
Guess I'd better show you a clean pair of wheels by peel glen road. 8)
Well, it takes a lot of energy to get a car moving, less so once it's moving.
With a cable car, you've got the one heavy central motor (wind powered ?) doing the hard work.
With cars, you've got the engine having to power itself and the passengers uphill.
Still can't get my head round the 'well, who on earth would use a cable car?'
There's just shy of one million people in/ around Glasgow...what more do you need?
Maybe I'll need to choose a different route now
So many choices...
I'm changing my guess from weed to methamphetamine 😆
Funnily enough. I used to know a young woman from Methyl in Fife.
Sadly, her first name was not 'fay'...
Methyl
No more.
Dont be silly guys.
SNP want the money to do more advertising to tell you its all Westministers fault.
Theres nothing in the pot for development.
Lottery funded?
Corporate sponsorship?
Interesting issue concerning the weight of the cables.
Prolly end up being made of a mix of steel and graphene (isn't graphene self lubricating?)
Afaik we have only begun to explore graphenes possibilities.
Interest rates are at a historic low...maybe a cable car would be something to invest in?
And funnily enough, the young mamasita from methill had a pal called Beth.
I don't know if she 'kent' anyone called crystal!