If we wanted local and express services a la New York, we should have done massive cut and cover

[Ears are alight]

tunnelling after the war, or maybe even shortly after 1666's fire, since that would have been about the only time it would have been feasible in this 2000 year old City.

Have a look across the tracks here and imagine that width of trench being dug for a few hundred track miles in London where even a single pothole being repaired causes "grid"lock...

http://cdn.theatlanticwire.com/img/upload/2011/11/09/rtr2qepz_2/large.jpg

[Classic Jorge]

[Brentwood]

Based on those vacuum tubes used to send internal memos round offices :hehe:

http://s3files.core77.com/blog/images/2013/05/high-speed-tube-01.jpg

[gooner4life]

[Brentwood]

[Classic Jorge]

[Ears are alight]

[gooner4life]

he's built spaceships, electric cars, and wants to do the HyperLoop all other billionaires are ****

[Ears are alight]

[Hillary]

in the cheapest way possible. Initially, this was down to the fact that, until the Vic line, every tube line was built with private money wanting a quick return (without success, incidentally, none of the orginal lines ever made any money for the investors).

So, unlike the NY Metro, we only have one line up and one line down. This makes maintenance during the day, 24 hour running and fast trains impossible.

[gooner4life]

force of the trains

[Ears are alight]

need to plan for commuter trains.

[7evens]

Probably a comfy kip in the sidings tho

[Brentwood]

http://addicted2success.com/entrepreneur-profile/elon-musk/

You see his Tesla cars quite a lot over here. They look fantastic and they are fast and can go for ages without a recharge. In 5 years time they will be equal to petrol cars imo

[Maravilloso Marvo]

learn from others mistakes.

[Ears are alight]

force exerted by them. I'd love to see the effect of a few 20m land slips on it though. Do you remember Christopher Reeve fixing the train line?

[Brentwood]

[Classic Jorge]

[gooner4life]

withstand massive vibrations

[Classic Jorge]

[Hillary]

http://hdtd.typepad.com/hdtd/images/2008/05/19/springfield_monorail.jpg

[Hillary]

[Classic Jorge]

Not on your life, my Hindu friend

[Hillary]

our trains are f**king good by comparison

[PSRB]

:rubchin: He is responsible for Microsoft products though

[Pat Vegas]

it was comfortable and free wi-fi :cloud9: