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Old November 19th 14, 03:09 AM posted to uk.transport.london
Basil Jet[_4_] Basil Jet[_4_] is offline
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Default Chain ferries and ducks

On 2014\11\19 03:06, Basil Jet wrote:
On 2014\11\17 18:02, wrote:

Anything that floats and carries passengers is a very expensive
operation


Why would a chain ferry need any safety staff when the dangleway has no
staff in its carriages? Although, I suppose the only function staff
could perform in the dangleway would be to scream along with you as you
plummet.


So the moral of the story is, design a form of transport to be so
dangerous that staff could not survive any malfunction, and the system
then becomes unstaffed and affordable. But if the staff can survive a
malfunction, you then have to have them, which makes the system too
expensive to build at all.