View Single Post
  #20   Report Post  
Old September 6th 04, 10:02 PM posted to uk.transport.london
Tom Anderson Tom Anderson is offline
external usenet poster
 
First recorded activity at LondonBanter: Oct 2003
Posts: 3,188
Default West London Tram Proposal

On Mon, 6 Sep 2004, Nick Leverton wrote:

In article ,
Tom Anderson wrote:

I shall coin the almost indistinguishable term RT-RT to refer to
super-buses, and then hope that someone in the relevant ministry gets
them confused with AT-ATs, and that all our congestion problems are
thereby solved.


I didn't know AT-ATs had open rear platforms ;-)




However, they do have quite spacious side doors, and, as indicated in this
TfL publicity shot, they have a unique new method of dropping off
passengers while on the move:

http://urchin.earth.li/~twic/lt-at-at.jpg

Initial tests of the Mercedes-Benz AT-AT G, however, have been less than
successful:

http://urchin.earth.li/~twic/lt-at-at-g.jpg

tom

--
And he talked about the future, underneath a giant sphere