How cool is this? Netherlands introduces train station commuter 'slide'

[jobo7]

http://travel.aol.co.uk/2011/07/20/...-station-commuter-slide-transfer-accelerator/

 

[Smethwickian]

Oh, YES!

Birmingham New Street redevelopment partners please note, it's not too late to put some of these in!

 

[anthony263]

hell yes i want one of them, will certainly make my commute more interesting

 

[valenta]

A novel idea. I have no doubt that it will be surrounded by a constant flow of teenagers being nuisances.

 

[AlterEgo]

Surely this is only for slippery customers.

OK, I'll get my coat!

 

[90019]

Wasn't this posted on here a couple of weeks back?

 

[DiscoStu]

We need them on those HUGE London Underground escelators

 

[SS4]

Oh, YES!

Birmingham New Street redevelopment partners please note, it's not too late to put some of these in!

Yes please! Stop the tossers going super slow

 

[185]

I tried to get one put in at Transpennine's head office, but they had slight concerns about the pit of crocodiles attached to my plans.

 

[bb21]

We need them on those HUGE London Underground escelators

We need them instead of the escalators. Slide down, lift up.

 

[aspierail]

This is very interesting i must say.

 

[Yew]

We need them instead of the escalators. Slide down, lift up.

Which station is it with the 200+ step spiral staircase? Helter skelter anyone? With a lift in the middle? (one of those Lifty escalator hybrids we had on the lift enthusiasts thread)

 

[Metrailway]

If it was ever installed in the UK, some fat guy would attempt to slide and get stuck halfway down, and then sue the socks off the TOC/Network Rail

 

[MidnightFlyer]

From what I can gather, the station in question is in Utrecht, which is in a province of the same name. Ergo it isn't in Holland, it's in the Netherlands. It's similar to Manchester Piccadilly getting one and the title being 'Yorkshire station gets slide'...

 

[Heinz57]

It is a good idea. It will speed things up. It'll be useful at rush hour.

Incidently a couple of companies (Google to name one) have introduced slides to get from floor to floor. And its increased productivity.

A lecturer from my Uni also put the idea forward to the powers that be about introducing slides at one of the campuses to get from floor to floor. Just when they started to laugh the idea off. He pulled out all this reasearch material about how slides has introduced productivity and how it could help the students.

 

[LE Greys]

Is this an April the 1st story?

Besides, I for one would be tempted to go down head first. We used to have a giant slide in Graveley recreation ground, but they removed it for some reason.

 

[bb21]

Which station is it with the 200+ step spiral staircase? Helter skelter anyone? With a lift in the middle? (one of those Lifty escalator hybrids we had on the lift enthusiasts thread)

They can start by introducing them at Russell Square or Goodge Street

 

[43021HST]

A novel idea. I have no doubt that it will be surrounded by a constant flow of teenagers being nuisances.

Then again it wouldnt be used by old fat adults who think they're far to dignified for it. So teenagers would only use it, if thats the case I'm all for it.

 

[valenta]

Then again it wouldnt be used by old fat adults who think they're far to dignified for it. So teenagers would only use it, if thats the case I'm all for it.

Maybe an idea would be restricting the "slide" so it can only be used by teenagers. However I would have thought that it was just a good excuse for vandalism.

 

[Mojo]

A drawback of slides is that they are only really good for going in one direction (ie. downwards). Of course at stations in time people will most likely want to go the other way.

 

[valenta]

A drawback of slides is that they are only really good for going in one direction (ie. downwards). Of course at stations in time people will most likely want to go the other way.

I'm sure you would get kids trying to climb up it, would'nt be long before an accident.

 

[43021HST]

Maybe an idea would be restricting the "slide" so it can only be used by teenagers. However I would have thought that it was just a good excuse for vandalism.

No you dont want any restrictions, just make the slide more difficult for people to get into, so only able bodied agile people can get into it. You mentined vandalism, good luck to the chav whos trying to graffiti whilst zooming down the slide.
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I'm sure you would get kids trying to climb up it, would'nt be long before an accident.

Are well the kids trying to climb up it can learn the hard way, when someone wearing doctor martins boots one in the face.

 

[valenta]

You mentined vandalism, good luck to the chav whos trying to graffiti whilst zooming down the slide.

I was more reffering to vandalism on the outside, such as teenagers kicking dents in it. I still think that this idea is asking for an accident (sorry to be synical!)

 

[HST Power]

I would love to see something like this incorporated in the UK, but it would only be ruined by idiots, intent on showing their friends how hilarious they think they are by sticking things on the slides and lying flat in the middle blocking everyone off.

 

[valenta]

I would love to see something like this incorporated in the UK, but it would only be ruined by idiots, intent on showing their friends how hilarious they think they are by sticking things on the slides and lying flat in the middle blocking everyone off.

Yes, that's what I think.

 

[HST Power]

Yes, that's what I think.

I've come to the conclusion that you're basically my Northern counterpart, we seem to agree on everything railway related!

 

[DiscoStu]

Which station is it with the 200+ step spiral staircase? Helter skelter anyone? With a lift in the middle? (one of those Lifty escalator hybrids we had on the lift enthusiasts thread)

Isn't it Covent Garden?

 

[43021HST]

I would love to see something like this incorporated in the UK, but it would only be ruined by idiots, intent on showing their friends how hilarious they think they are by sticking things on the slides and lying flat in the middle blocking everyone off.

Good Point, the best thing to do would be too weld nails on the outside of it to stop people kicking it.

 

[T163R]

Looks a bit like this, no ?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4o0ZVeixYU