No monorail - how about a miniature train?

[Couldn't Be Hyypia]

Apparently Bar(stard)ber has vetoed the monorail project at The Amex. How about a Brooklands style miniature train.

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[Shropshire Seagull]

Obviously terminating at the Amex, but where do you plan to put the other end and stations along the way?
Will it be steam, diesel or electric?

 

[Couldn't Be Hyypia]

Tunbridge Wells would be the obvious (and most popular) terminus I would have thought.

Or we could actually build The Brighton Line as a miniature railway?

 

[The Large One]

Apparently Bar(stard)ber has vetoed the monorail project at The Amex. How about a Brooklands style miniature train.

What do you mean 'he has vetoed it'?

If you mean, he won't spend the Albion's money in building it, I'm not surprised.

 

[rool]

Obviously terminating at the Amex, but where do you plan to put the other end and stations along the way?
Will it be steam, diesel or electric?

I reckon it should run from the Cliftonville and be ARS powered.

 

[shaolinpunk]

A tube system like in Futurama

 

[The Large One]

Tunbridge Wells would be the obvious (and most popular) terminus I would have thought.

Or we could actually build The Brighton Line as a miniature railway?

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Love the way Brighton is re-arranged geographically on that map.

 

[turienzo's lovechild]

do they still have one of those things at hove park?

never EVER saw anyone on it

 

[Stat Brother]

Apparently Bar(stard)ber has vetoed the monorail project at The Amex. How about a Brooklands style miniature train.

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That's just typical of the narrow gauge thinking around our club.

 

[KingstonSeagull]

Is there a chance the track could bend?

 

[Twinkle Toes]

A new route for The Volks Railway Shirley?

 

[Norman Potting]

If the National Trust can do it why can't we - this brought a smile to my face earlier in the week.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-23933485

 

[dejavuatbtn]

Is there a chance the track could bend?

Not on your life ..........

 

[KingstonSeagull]

But what about us brain dead slobs?

 

[dejavuatbtn]

Shame the greens didn't try, like other major world cities, to get an underground system installed. This would be able to support both universities and the football stadium. Granted there would be problems with the hills, but they have spent their money on cycle lanes which aren't a lot of good for older people or people not fit enough to cycle up our ridiculous gradients.

 

[WATFORD zero]

Shame the greens didn't try, like other major world cities, to get an underground system installed. This would be able to support both universities and the football stadium. Granted there would be problems with the hills, but they have spent their money on cycle lanes which aren't a lot of good for older people or people not fit enough to cycle up our ridiculous gradients.

You're right. We shouldn't rest until we get this

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[Southover Street Seagull]

Shame the greens didn't try, like other major world cities, to get an underground system installed. This would be able to support both universities and the football stadium. Granted there would be problems with the hills, but they have spent their money on cycle lanes which aren't a lot of good for older people or people not fit enough to cycle up our ridiculous gradients.

This isn't going to happen unless an oil rich Arab or oligarch is involved and Brighton isn't a major world city for starters!

Crossrail's budget is £14.8 billion with a plan for thirty nine stations.

http://www.crossrail.co.uk/about-us/funding

 

[The Large One]

Shame the greens didn't try, like other major world cities, to get an underground system installed. This would be able to support both universities and the football stadium. Granted there would be problems with the hills, but they have spent their money on cycle lanes which aren't a lot of good for older people or people not fit enough to cycle up our ridiculous gradients.

No council of any colour is going to fund a scheme like this, especially if it's not going to see a return. Councils simply aren't given budgets for it, and if they can't make a case for its financial viability, it's dead in the water.

However, the Greens, as you put it, haven't spent anything on cycle lanes. Nor for that matter - if you're talking about the Lewes Road cycle lanes - has Brighton & Hove City Council.

 

[Bold Seagull]

do they still have one of those things at hove park?

never EVER saw anyone on it

Eh!!?? You've obviously never had to queue for 3/4hour with the kids to have a go then!!!

 

[turienzo's lovechild]

Eh!!?? You've obviously never had to queue for 3/4hour with the kids to have a go then!!!

clearly not! is it still going then? I ALWAYS WANTED A GO