In one of my lucid moments recently (which admittedly are becoming rarer), I had an idea which may encourage your engineering brain for a workout.
Basically if someone could come up with a footbridge to attach on the side of several bridges (Barnes, Kew, Chiswick) to South West London, which had a raising / lowering staircase / lift system in the middle of the bridge, then you could circumvent the navigational problems of the Thames this far up, and run a commuter service from Richmond to central town (something not offered at the moment). The thinking being the ships could stop under each bridge to collect passengers, while remaining in the middle of the channel. You thereby circumvent the problem of the shallow twater caused by tides further upstream.
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Hmmm indeed.
In one of my lucid moments recently (which admittedly are becoming rarer), I had an idea which may encourage your engineering brain for a workout.
Basically if someone could come up with a footbridge to attach on the side of several bridges (Barnes, Kew, Chiswick) to South West London, which had a raising / lowering staircase / lift system in the middle of the bridge, then you could circumvent the navigational problems of the Thames this far up, and run a commuter service from Richmond to central town (something not offered at the moment). The thinking being the ships could stop under each bridge to collect passengers, while remaining in the middle of the channel. You thereby circumvent the problem of the shallow twater caused by tides further upstream.
Does that get your brain percolating?
Nice redesign by the way.
Abso-chuffin-lutley.
This is exactly the sort of thinking we need.
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