Another good reason to visit Paris

[richardm]

Fie to the Louvre, I say! This is worth risking Parisian water for:

Le Trottoir Roulant Rapide

The trottoir roulant rapide or TRR (fast rolling pavement) is on trial until October, when the metro's safety committee will decide whether it has been a success - and whether to roll it out elsewhere.

The prototype carries passengers the length of Montparnasse station at 9km/h - three times as fast as normal travelators, and about the average speed of a Paris bus.

Best of all:

But new users also appear every day, and a small proportion promptly fall and hurt themselves.

Extreme commuting!

 

[CFLarsen]

How is this different from the rolling pavements in airports??

I've never heard reports of people falling on those.

 

[Yahweh]

Fin.

 

[Tony]

So I should visit Paris to ride the rolling pavement? Ill call my travel agent right away!!

 

[Zep]

So... They are replacing the Metro with these?? There's going to be logjams if they fail - all these people just standing there...

Zep

 

[richardm]

How is this different from the rolling pavements in airports??

I've never heard reports of people falling on those.

It's faster, apparently, and appears to have a mechanism for accelerating you up to the full speed. And decelerating you too, hopefully, so that you don't get fired off at the end, cartoon-style.

All the ones that I've used go at about a walking pace which is, what, 3 miles an hour or so? This one does nearly twice that.

 

[Genghis Pwn]

It sounds like the obvious problem -- the transition onto the highspeed belt -- has not been done as well as it could be, otherwise people wouldn't be falling and afraid to use it.

 

[arcticpenguin]

It sounds like the obvious problem -- the transition onto the highspeed belt -- has not been done as well as it could be, otherwise people wouldn't be falling and afraid to use it.

Not a problem. This was worked out in The Roads Must Roll by Robert Heinlein. You have a whole series of belts, the slower ones for entry and exit at one side, medium speeds belts for local travel in the middle, and the high speed express belts at the other side.

I doubt this is what they are using in Paris at present.

 

[jj]

Not a problem. This was worked out in The Roads Must Roll by Robert Heinlein. You have a whole series of belts, the slower ones for entry and exit at one side, medium speeds belts for local travel in the middle, and the high speed express belts at the other side.

I doubt this is what they are using in Paris at present.

I sometimes think that our present crop of businessmen (well, not all of them, just most of them that do smokestack stuff and the like) in fact read that story, and thought it was true, and that they were allowed to send in the military when somebody went on strike.