Deleted
Deleted Member
Posts: 0
|
Post by Deleted on Jul 26, 2012 1:40:39 GMT
Paper ticket is needed for return journeys (aka "360") and groups - single trips are fine with Oyster.
|
|
Deleted
Deleted Member
Posts: 0
|
Post by Deleted on Jul 26, 2012 7:07:47 GMT
Seriously - it is doing well with tourists. Long queues at the weekend. Well worth the Oyster fare on a sunny day. Seriously, it’s been open less than a month, will it still draw queues at weekends after the novelty has worn off and it’s a cold rainy day in November?
|
|
|
Post by alpinejohn on Jul 26, 2012 16:55:00 GMT
...Seriously, it’s been open less than a month, will it still draw queues at weekends after the novelty has worn off and it’s a cold rainy day in November?...
Compared with tickets for the London Eye which goes nowhere and start from £15 and upwards the AirLine looks a real bargain for people wanting to enjoy the view. OK demand is going to fluctuate with poor weather but as long as they get over the usual teething problems - based on similar kit being installed in the Alps - expect it to "have a temporary delay/fail/break down at least three times in its initial year and once a year thereafter - mostly due to false inputs from sensors. As long as people see it for what it really is - a tourist attraction first and a transport artery second then it should be something London will learn to love - just like the Millenium wheel which they never got to take down after the millenium year was over. - just my 2p
|
|
Deleted
Deleted Member
Posts: 0
|
Post by Deleted on Jul 27, 2012 9:07:40 GMT
Compared with tickets for the London Eye which goes nowhere and start from £15 and upwards the AirLine looks a real bargain for people wanting to enjoy the view. OK demand is going to fluctuate with poor weather but as long as they get over the usual teething problems - based on similar kit being installed in the Alps - expect it to "have a temporary delay/fail/break down at least three times in its initial year and once a year thereafter - mostly due to false inputs from sensors. As long as people see it for what it really is - a tourist attraction first and a transport artery second then it should be something London will learn to love - just like the Millenium wheel which they never got to take down after the millenium year was over. - just my 2p The London Eye is slap bang in the middle of town, it gives you views of all the well known buildings in London and afterwards you can go visit some of them. After you’ve been on the cable car and seen whatever you can see 5 miles or so from the centre you can go see the Dome or er, ExCel if it’s open, other than that the delights of Canning Town and North Greenwich are rather sparse so it’s back onto the Jubilee into town or a bus to Greenwich. The fact that we’ve paid £60m out of the transport budget for a "tourist attraction" is a joke. The Millennium Wheel/London Eye stayed up because it served the purpose it was built for and was popular, the same cannot be said of the cable car. Tourists will love it, London will mostly ignore it.
|
|
castlebar
Planners use hindsight, not foresight
Posts: 1,316
|
Post by castlebar on Jul 27, 2012 9:20:40 GMT
aslefshrugged is spot on again. This was built purely as a political whim. It was a "Boris vanity project", just as this morning he is claiming credit for the "Games". It MIGHT be (and stay) as a tourist attraction, but the money could have been put to better use - > for the benefit of Londoners for example.
|
|
Deleted
Deleted Member
Posts: 0
|
Post by Deleted on Jul 30, 2012 12:52:14 GMT
|
|
Deleted
Deleted Member
Posts: 0
|
Post by Deleted on Jul 30, 2012 18:30:02 GMT
A terrified LBC radio presenter, Anthony Davis, on his first trip on the Emirates cable car which coincided with stormy weather.
IMO, that ride would be worth every penny.
|
|
Deleted
Deleted Member
Posts: 0
|
Post by Deleted on Jul 30, 2012 18:42:25 GMT
|
|
|
Post by bicbasher on Jul 31, 2012 19:57:19 GMT
Did my first ride on Saturday evening. A 15 minute queue at North Greenwich, but near enough turn up and go on the east side.
|
|
|
Post by uzairjubilee on Jul 31, 2012 21:10:03 GMT
I took my brother on it from the Royal Docks Terminal. Line was very long but didn't take that long to get inside. It was quite unorganised as people with Oyster PAYG were under the impression they did not have to queue with those who had boarding passes (I also thought this).
I overheard some women saying that when they asked a member of staff for information, the member of staff replied saying they didn't know.
Overall a good experience though. Didn't expect the cable car to go so high!
|
|