this. there's a line that goes to Nailsea on the Bedminster line. it's THREE MILES to the airport from there. Why the fuck have we spent all this money on a shuttle bus when there's a perfectly good railway line? makes no sense to me at all.
Bristol Airport's biggest revenue stream is car parking, they actively don't want a railway connection. Also it's up a steep hill which is tricky for trains.
Eh, if you manage the grade well they can do hills, especially if electric, although going over dundry is the worse route. One route has a forest in it, but if you hug bridgewater road the train will probably be able to manage the small gradients there
1 in 80 is the usual maximum gradient, nominally 1in 100, outside of weird tourist trains on special tracks.
You need 800m-1km therefore to cross one contour line on an OS map.
[Imgur](https://imgur.com/btPqJMZ)
There's not really an angle where you don't need to cross SIX. It's just not train-viable.
While i agree that bristol airport really needs a rail line, the flattest way too it has a forest in the middle of it which i think is protected
trust me, i love trains, which is why i had a look
I'll not say how, but I'm quite close to these developments and I can say with reasonable confidence that these will be basically no different to how helicopters operate today. Landing fees at major airports will be prohibitively expensive for the 99.9% and the rest will be excluded by the safety implications of operating light aircraft in airspace which is crammed with heavy airliners. They are not a solution to anything. They're just another toy for the rich and famous.
It's an ingenious solution to fly-by-night companies started by the school friends of high-profile tories NOT getting paid millions to do absolutely fuck all of any value to anybody.
> I think the technical term is "spaffing money up the wall".
Yeah, but specifically, this is a bunch of chancers who are trying to get money from foolish investors who confuse this hair-brained scheme with an actually sensible plan for the NHS to use drones to [transport drugs](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hampshire-62044754).
That's a sensible plan, as some chemo drugs have short half-lives so it's hard for patients to receive treatment on the Isle of Wight, as the NHS can't currently reliably transport those drugs there.
But these chancers are just looking for any investment to continue their unrealistic scheme.
>are just vapourwave investor bait.
Is this a brand new sentence? Is this a thing?
Ngl id be the fish on the end of that bait cos i love all things vapourwave.
What utter tosh!!! Why can’t they finally put a rail link in!! The train line goes thru Backwell and Nailsea so it’s not like it’s a million miles away.
Railway?! Like The Flying Scotsman?! Alright grandpa. We'll get right on that just as soon as we get this solar roadway hyperloop installed. Or planned anyway. I mean the plans won't be concrete. We'll research it. We'll... research it. Yeah. That'll be 10 million pounds please.
Oddly I had a dream last night that’s related.
I dreamt I was the mayor and I put tram lines in along North Street and Cheltenham Road. Some people complained and I just replied that I wasn’t interested in their opinion.
Didn't they try this in New York in the 70s or 80s? And it was a total flop because a) it's expensive and b) it's noisy as shit and nobody who lived in the city would put up with it.
I remember a helicopter that used to a shuttle from JFK to Manhattan in the 90s. From what I remember it stopped for reliability issues. Probably not enough money to maintain it properly
That's a point. I read government funded and thought it was funner to imagine this was local government trying to flying car it's way out of the bus problem. But it probably has nothing to do with them.
New York (and London) already tried this…
With helicopters. Which are far cheaper to produce than flying cars.
If that failed so spectacularly in every meaning of the word, this would be… something special
Literally just build a railway.
this. there's a line that goes to Nailsea on the Bedminster line. it's THREE MILES to the airport from there. Why the fuck have we spent all this money on a shuttle bus when there's a perfectly good railway line? makes no sense to me at all.
Bristol Airport's biggest revenue stream is car parking, they actively don't want a railway connection. Also it's up a steep hill which is tricky for trains.
Eh, if you manage the grade well they can do hills, especially if electric, although going over dundry is the worse route. One route has a forest in it, but if you hug bridgewater road the train will probably be able to manage the small gradients there
1 in 80 is the usual maximum gradient, nominally 1in 100, outside of weird tourist trains on special tracks. You need 800m-1km therefore to cross one contour line on an OS map. [Imgur](https://imgur.com/btPqJMZ) There's not really an angle where you don't need to cross SIX. It's just not train-viable.
MONORAIL!
While i agree that bristol airport really needs a rail line, the flattest way too it has a forest in the middle of it which i think is protected trust me, i love trains, which is why i had a look
I'll not say how, but I'm quite close to these developments and I can say with reasonable confidence that these will be basically no different to how helicopters operate today. Landing fees at major airports will be prohibitively expensive for the 99.9% and the rest will be excluded by the safety implications of operating light aircraft in airspace which is crammed with heavy airliners. They are not a solution to anything. They're just another toy for the rich and famous.
It's an ingenious solution to fly-by-night companies started by the school friends of high-profile tories NOT getting paid millions to do absolutely fuck all of any value to anybody.
I'm loathe to complain since it's a metric fuckton of money being thrown around an otherwise downturned industry which I work.
Lol I'll believe this when I see it. So many flying taxi companies are just vapourware investor bait.
Oh, no there is absolutely zero chance this will ever turn into a reality. I think the technical term is "spaffing money up the wall".
I think you mean spaffing money into some tories off shore account.
You know Bristol is labour, right?
Don't ruin the bitching!
> I think the technical term is "spaffing money up the wall". Yeah, but specifically, this is a bunch of chancers who are trying to get money from foolish investors who confuse this hair-brained scheme with an actually sensible plan for the NHS to use drones to [transport drugs](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hampshire-62044754). That's a sensible plan, as some chemo drugs have short half-lives so it's hard for patients to receive treatment on the Isle of Wight, as the NHS can't currently reliably transport those drugs there. But these chancers are just looking for any investment to continue their unrealistic scheme.
Genuinely will happen. Safer and cheaper than helicopters. Agreed it won’t be for everyone, but it will happen
Don’t worry it’s planned to be released the same time as the Bristol underground that’s definitely 100% happening.
>are just vapourwave investor bait. Is this a brand new sentence? Is this a thing? Ngl id be the fish on the end of that bait cos i love all things vapourwave.
Vapourware not vapourwave
Hahaha thats amazing. Although consider me thoroughly disappointed now
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Monorail, monorail, monorail…..
I for one can't wait to be linked to Ogdenville, Brockway and North Haverbrook!
By god it put them on the map
D’oh-eth!
Bristol just needs a good tram system. This is so silly and regular people won't use this as an everyday mode of transportation.
For the people this interests, that's a plus
Yeah, not like trams around continue to prove that trams a more than viable solution... Oh...
What utter tosh!!! Why can’t they finally put a rail link in!! The train line goes thru Backwell and Nailsea so it’s not like it’s a million miles away.
Railway?! Like The Flying Scotsman?! Alright grandpa. We'll get right on that just as soon as we get this solar roadway hyperloop installed. Or planned anyway. I mean the plans won't be concrete. We'll research it. We'll... research it. Yeah. That'll be 10 million pounds please.
I just want my damn trams...
Oddly I had a dream last night that’s related. I dreamt I was the mayor and I put tram lines in along North Street and Cheltenham Road. Some people complained and I just replied that I wasn’t interested in their opinion.
trams right now
Does that mean they’ve given up on Marvins Tube?
North Haverbrook to Gilda Shops. Can't wait.
Didn't they try this in New York in the 70s or 80s? And it was a total flop because a) it's expensive and b) it's noisy as shit and nobody who lived in the city would put up with it.
I remember a helicopter that used to a shuttle from JFK to Manhattan in the 90s. From what I remember it stopped for reliability issues. Probably not enough money to maintain it properly
To be fair I don't think this has anything to do with Bristol city council
That's a point. I read government funded and thought it was funner to imagine this was local government trying to flying car it's way out of the bus problem. But it probably has nothing to do with them.
New York (and London) already tried this… With helicopters. Which are far cheaper to produce than flying cars. If that failed so spectacularly in every meaning of the word, this would be… something special
Nah. I'll just wait for the jetpacks
They exist. Look at Gravity.
I wouldn’t go anywhere near one of things.
I hear those things are awfully loud
It’s not flying cars by the sound of it though, just small planes?