h a l f b a k e r yI like this idea, only I think it should be run by the government.
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Instead of seating and straps from the ceiling for people standing, supply everyone with a "Commuter Harness". As the train stops, hooks decend from the roof of the train so that you can attach and retract as the train leaves the station. This could be fixed so that head heights were the same and nobody
has to travel in sombody elses armpit.
how about doing it this way?
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[mihali, Nov 29 2001, last modified Oct 05 2004]
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I think I'd have a hangup about this. |
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THe upgrade would be smart hooks/harnesses that knew where you wer going to get off, & gently moved you to the exit at that stop. |
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hello_c: you wouldn't need to stop the train, you'd just need something like they have for mailbags, to catch them off a moving train with a big hook by the side of the track. |
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Please, ladies, only put your large gold hoop earrings in once you're at work. Even intelligent meat-hooks have trouble differentiating between those and belt-loops. |
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I like the image of all the bodies swaying in parallel as the train starts and stops. |
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So finish the analogy and skip the train. |
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Hooks are attached to rails in the ceiling of the tunnels. People hook their harness on and are whisked to their destination. (If you've seen _Monsters, Inc._, think about the transport system used for doors, only instead of doors there are harnessed people.) |
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What used to be subway tunnels would be filled with streams of people on hooks swaying gently as they whiz along. |
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People on hooks on tracks. Why do I keep thinking of an abattoir, and what does that say about my attitude to work? |
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Probably pretty much the same as mine, for much the same reason. |
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If you don't want to stand up, divide the train longitudinally by padded walls. Passengers enter the carriage from either end, and upon leaving the station it rotates 90 degrees. Customers now find themselves lying on the padded walls, which have become mattresses, and can grab 40 winks before being righted at the far end. There would be a risk of passengers exiting upside down, and the constant rotation on trains with many stops might be an annoyance, but these bugs could be ironed out. |
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