2012/02/14 21:54
A few years ago, the low-cost airlines started charging for checking in suitcases in the hope that people would start travelling with hand luggage only.They seem to have been too successful: When I travelled to Paris yesterday with EasyJet, they asked for volunteers to have their hand luggage checked in for free, and the terms & conditions threatened that they...
2011/10/15 22:57
Da jeg var i København først på ugen, lagde jeg på stationerne mærke til nogle blå cirkler på stolper. Det viste sig at være til brug for Rejsekortet, et elektronisk billetsystem, der ligner Londons Oyster-kort.Umiddelbart lød det da som en helt god idé, men da jeg så læste efter, hvad planen er, så jeg til min bestyrtelse, at det "med...
2012/07/20 23:31
Fitting cars into cities at the same time as houses and people seems to be a really hard task.
Has it ever been tried, I wonder, to create a new town or city by designing the roads and parking spaces on an empty field, and then put in pillars and build the houses and green spaces on top of these?
In this way, cities would appear to be entirely traffic-free — there would just be gardens and lawns with pretty paths filling up the space between the houses — while the roads would be very straight and efficient, and quite safe too because of the lack of pedestrians on the roads.
It’s possible that it’s more expensive than I imagine to build houses and gardens on stilts, but apart from that I cannot see any problems with my idea.
Has it ever been tried?
2011/11/29 20:27
There's only about 60 km between Scotland's two largest cities, Glasgow and Edinburgh (counting from city boundary to city boundary along the motorway), yet they have separate airports and it takes 50 minutes to take a train from city centre to city centre.Looking further afar, Inverness is only about 180 km north of Glasgow as the crow flies, or about 270 km by road, yet the fastest train is under way for almost 3½ hours.I could give similar figures for travel to the...
2011/11/19 10:48
Europe is a real mess when it comes to railway networks. The gauges aren't the same, the ways they've been electrified vary (see the map on the right), and the signal systems aren't the same.To quote from Wikipedia:While most railways use the standard gauge of 1435 mm, some countries, especially Spain and the former member states of the Soviet Union...
2011/08/18 22:36
During our recent holiday in my parents' house in Tuscany, we spent a fair amount of time practicing our flying skills on my mother's broomstick.Anna wasn't that great at flying on her own, so I sometimes let her ride on...
2011/08/16 23:18
When I was learning to drive a few years ago, I bemoaned the complexity of manual transmission and suggested a better way: "As far as I can see, all of this could be done with the vertical part of a...
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