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[url= http://www.thisisbristol.co.uk/news/Bristol-cyclists-need-163-1m-lift-Clifton/article-1307574-detail/article.html ]Get off and push if you are that unfit, pillock.[/url]
See that spelling mistake 'plumber' instead of plumper.
Well, when it said bike lift I thought it meant something awesome like [url= http://www.trampe.no/english/ ]this one in Trondheim[/url] in [url= http://www.trampe.no/media/trampehigh.mpg ]this video.[/url]
That would be worth it, love their attitude to their lift "look, all sorts of people are using it" and letting them, not banning non-cyclists and causing a fuss. Love the one just stood on it 🙂
My then girlfriend lived for a while in the big student block down there. That had a front door at the bottom of the hill, a lift and a back door at the top of the hill. They would often use it as a way of avoiding climbing Park Street. But I can't see this as a great use of £1mil.
*facepalm*
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If they put a Trampe (like in Trondheim) on Marlborough Hill that would be usefull. But Park st is hardly a big hill.
Don't know how old the figures are on the Trampe website but they seem to think about £1000 per meter to install. Guessing that was when it was first installed though, inflation may have taken its toll.
When i lived there we used a lift in the ncp carpark to facilitate easy passage to Diamond kebabs
It is not a completely mental idea - there is also one here in central Brussels..
[url= http://www.spottedbylocals.com/brussels/area/center/art-culture-
center/elevator-to-the-sky]Brussels version[/url]
Perhaps it might go some way towards changing the image of cycling in Bristol as something exclusively for the Lycra-clad super-fit.
Super fit to get up a 30 m hill FFS
as for the trampe imagine the fun trying to cycle the wrong way down it!
Entry and exit doors could be on opposite sides so bikes would not need to be turned
Urm. Are these people soooo stupid that they haven't figured out that you can move a bike forwards and backwards really easily?
To be fair, Terry Wogan reckons Bristol's a bit hilly for cycling. Are you going against the word of the Togmeister?
It'll smell of wee
A lift is stupid and would smell of wee, but that Trondheim thing looks cool as.
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Let's get one, but put it from Hotwells to Clifton so you can uplift the Goldney Lane steps.
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Edit: Donald, uncanny! It is true though. Public lifts smell of wee.
That would be sooo top Ant, urban DH with uplift! 😀
You could have a good urban DH race: start up by the Camera Obscura, down past the Avon Gorge Hotel, hang a left down the steps, road gap over Hotwells, and then when you finish you have to chug a pint of cider at the Mardyke. 🙂
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thread title says it all.
Its an interesting idea, it'll never happen and I doubt its usefulness in that location, but its an interesting idea.
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In Barcelona there are outdoors escalators up the very steep hill to the Gaudi Park.
Can't believe the stuff on the comments page of that story though. Same old rubbish every time - I pay road tax so the roads are mine, all cyclists jump lights/ride on pavements/mug old grannies, congestion is the fault of everyone except me.