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[challenge entry] Environmental commuting.... next stop Embankment!
Embankment.... geddit!?

None of that nasty electricity here ;-)

eco-commuting

From the Corporate Greenwash challenge. See all 125 entries (closed)

(golddust QOTW now revolves around being a cunt, Fri 12 Feb 2010, 11:01, archived)
# That would be awesome
You could just string the barges end to end and have them constantly puttering along - people could just step on and off without slowing the barges.
(I helped save b3ta! chenobble rocking his explorer beard on, Fri 12 Feb 2010, 11:03, archived)
# like a horizontal underground paternoster
awesome
(I helped save b3ta! emvee cruor deo cruoris, Fri 12 Feb 2010, 11:06, archived)
# that was such a predictable thing to say
(I helped save b3ta! Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Fri 12 Feb 2010, 11:13, archived)
# why is it always raining in your images?
now THAT'S a predictable reply
(I helped save b3ta! emvee cruor deo cruoris, Fri 12 Feb 2010, 11:15, archived)
# 30 years ago
when I was doing my firefighter training, we recruits all rode a paternoster at a huge grain store in Avonmouth docks.
It was tremendous fun hanging on to the handles of a giant vertical conveyor-belt and going up 4-5 floors then swapping sides and coming down again.
In hindsight, it was incredibly dangerous. H&S would have a fit nowadays.
/old-git blog
(Bluntphilly trying to loose wait, Fri 12 Feb 2010, 11:22, archived)
# I had one at university
It was a rite-of-passage to go over the top and under the bottom of it - the walls there were covered in grafiti from the past 40 years :)
(I helped save b3ta! emvee cruor deo cruoris, Fri 12 Feb 2010, 11:54, archived)
# was it Sheffield uni by any chance?
I rode the one in the tower block there up to the Architecture studios on the 15th floor. Great fun!
(golddust QOTW now revolves around being a cunt, Fri 12 Feb 2010, 12:07, archived)
# Attenborough Tower, Leicester
(I helped save b3ta! emvee cruor deo cruoris, Fri 12 Feb 2010, 12:42, archived)
# i studied at leicester
and now work at Sheffield uni

i still find an excuse to ride the paternoster!
(jonny_power boom chika wah wow, Fri 12 Feb 2010, 16:15, archived)
# The only buskers allowed
should be accordion players
(I helped save b3ta! fuscous, Fri 12 Feb 2010, 13:55, archived)
# :)
that'd be lovely
except for the fumes from the chimneys :D
now if you used pedalos you'd be on to something, although, it'd be quicker to walk above ground
(I helped save b3ta! HappyToast Groat froth, Fri 12 Feb 2010, 11:03, archived)
# just put big hearts up around all the entrances
rebrand it the tube of love.

win.

*this comes to you in replacement of a joke based around this method of transport still beign the scenic route.
(I helped save b3ta! arrangedletters, Fri 12 Feb 2010, 11:07, archived)
# It could be wind powered!
(I helped save b3ta! Holly Would long wheel based tranny, Fri 12 Feb 2010, 11:17, archived)
# I have spent the past 3 minutes trying to think up why this would be a bad idea....
and I can't come up with one.
(I helped save b3ta! The magic of chutney Shakes it like an Instagram filter!, Fri 12 Feb 2010, 11:04, archived)
# :D
smoke filled tunnels, stairs to get down to and up from, quicker to walk than take a narrow boat, etc etc. And as for the locks you'd need... sorry for being literal, just as soon as my brain started it couldn't stop
(I helped save b3ta! HappyToast Groat froth, Fri 12 Feb 2010, 11:05, archived)
# Pah! piddling details
If the Victorians had thought like that, we'd never have invented anything ;D
Some kind of air extraction / filteration system, and of course improved speedy narrow boats, and moving tavelator walkways that whizzed you along! See, Isambard KB eat yer heart out!
(I helped save b3ta! The magic of chutney Shakes it like an Instagram filter!, Fri 12 Feb 2010, 11:07, archived)
# my brain is thinking a turbine system
that moves the water along taking the boats with them.. while tidal generators reharvest ..at least some of the energy along the route.

EDIT: screw the narrow boat.. just have rubber tires :D
(I helped save b3ta! arrangedletters, Fri 12 Feb 2010, 11:14, archived)
# they could be towed by eels
(I helped save b3ta! twig Save 6 Music, Fri 12 Feb 2010, 11:17, archived)
# electric eels!
who get tormented and pissed off by their low hourly wage and release electricity that we then harvest!!

AND SAVE THE WORLD!



(I helped save b3ta! arrangedletters, Fri 12 Feb 2010, 11:22, archived)
# you could have metal wheels
and make the boats run along some sort of electrical track!

Oh.
(I helped save b3ta! Wasp Box like a nervous random stranger at a glory hole, Fri 12 Feb 2010, 11:34, archived)
# make sure the water is heavy
and stock it chock full of paladium. cold fusion the fuck out of it.
(I helped save b3ta! arrangedletters, Fri 12 Feb 2010, 11:38, archived)
# Would passengers have to lie on their backs and "walk" the barges through the tunnels?
Might be fun, to begin with...
(I helped save b3ta! Fresh Water Mole loves his baby boy more and more every day, Fri 12 Feb 2010, 11:06, archived)
# oh yes!
with the feet on the ceiling.
(I helped save b3ta! Holly Would long wheel based tranny, Fri 12 Feb 2010, 11:24, archived)
# Yeah fun until you get tramp jizz on you face
(I helped save b3ta! @><|= w0nu!) or cunt to my friends, Sat 13 Feb 2010, 11:08, archived)
# Splendid idea!
:D
(I helped save b3ta! Fresh Water Mole loves his baby boy more and more every day, Fri 12 Feb 2010, 11:04, archived)
# don't they run on petrol?
or cheese. Petrol or cheese.
(I helped save b3ta! twig Save 6 Music, Fri 12 Feb 2010, 11:06, archived)
# diesel, usually
(I helped save b3ta! emvee cruor deo cruoris, Fri 12 Feb 2010, 11:15, archived)
# best of all the cheeses
(I helped save b3ta! twig Save 6 Music, Fri 12 Feb 2010, 11:18, archived)
# commuters could
lie on the roof and walk it through the tunnels with their feet on the ceiling.
(I helped save b3ta! amygdala, Fri 12 Feb 2010, 13:40, archived)
# Marvellous!
Also, do away with the engines and just supply oars - fun for all the family! :D
(I helped save b3ta! kitaro is all, like, "Nifty Biscuits" 'n that..., Fri 12 Feb 2010, 11:06, archived)
# Lies.
Bank is never that quiet.

Excellent
(I helped save b3ta! Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Fri 12 Feb 2010, 12:21, archived)
# That is one seriously old pic of bank.
Like, 80s old.
(I helped save b3ta! Jenk Neptune is a pedant and now I can't fit my sig in, Sat 13 Feb 2010, 10:49, archived)
# great stuff
:D
(I helped save b3ta! Elvis impersonator, Sat 13 Feb 2010, 14:08, archived)