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<a href='http://hefei.xwork.net.cn/default.aspx?g=posts&t=5827' target='_blank' ><font color='red'>点击查看完整主题页面</font></a><br/><br/>主题:skycycle(发表于2014/1/5 9:23:28)<br/><br/>发表内容:<hr/><div id="header" style="padding: 8px 0px 0px; margin: 0px; border-collapse: collapse; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: white; font-size: 12px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; line-height: 15px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; "><div id="zones-nav" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border-collapse: collapse; width: 940px; clear: both; line-height: 1; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 1.333em; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; "><div data-component="Article:crumb nav" xmlns:v="http://rdf.data-vocabulary.org/#" style="padding: 0px; margin: -10px 0px 0px; border-collapse: collapse; background-color: rgb(237, 237, 237); border-bottom-width: 10px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); border-top-width: 10px; border-top-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); 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border-collapse: collapse; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; "><figure data-media-id="gu-fc-b986d0ab-20b9-4c70-9381-593fed8e9f51" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; border-collapse: collapse; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; "><img src="http://plat.renew.sh.cn/files/useruploadfiles/day_140105/2014-01-05_092307881.jpg" alt="Skyride … How the proposed SkyCycle tracks could look." style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px auto 5px; border-collapse: collapse; display: block; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; " /><figcaption style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 0.858em; line-height: 1.25; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; ">Skyride … How the proposed SkyCycle tracks could look. Photograph: /Foster and Partners</figcaption></figure></div></div><div data-display-hint="" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border-collapse: collapse; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; "><p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 13px; border-collapse: collapse; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; ">Gliding through the air on a bike might so far be confined to the fantasy realms of <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5BHoDW9f7vY" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border-collapse: collapse; color: rgb(0, 86, 137); text-decoration: none; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; ">singing nannies</a> and <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oR1-UFrcZ0k" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border-collapse: collapse; color: rgb(0, 86, 137); text-decoration: none; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; ">aliens in baskets</a>, but riding over rooftops could one day form part of your regular commute to work, if Norman Foster has his way.</p><p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 13px; border-collapse: collapse; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; ">Unveiled this week, in an appropriately light-headed vision for the holiday season, SkyCycle proposes a network of elevated bike paths hoisted aloft above railway lines, allowing you to zip through town blissfully liberated from the roads.</p><p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 13px; border-collapse: collapse; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; ">The project, which has the backing of Network Rail and Transport for London, would see over 220km of car-free routes installed above London's suburban rail network, suspended on pylons above the tracks and accessed at over 200 entrance points. At up to 15 metres wide, each of the ten routes would accommodate 12,000 cyclists per hour and improve journey times by up to 29 minutes, according to the designers.</p><p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 13px; border-collapse: collapse; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; ">Lord Foster, who says that cycling is one of his great passions, describes the plan as “a lateral approach to finding space in a congested city.”</p><p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 13px; border-collapse: collapse; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; ">“By using the corridors above the suburban railways,” he said, “we could @Create a world-class network of safe, car-free cycle routes that are ideally located for commuters.”</p><p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 13px; border-collapse: collapse; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; ">Developed by landscape practice <a href="http://www.exteriorarchitecture.com/_/Exterior_Architecture.html" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border-collapse: collapse; color: rgb(0, 86, 137); text-decoration: none; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; ">Exterior Architecture</a>, with <a href="http://www.fosterandpartners.com/" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border-collapse: collapse; color: rgb(0, 86, 137); text-decoration: none; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; ">Foster and Partners</a> and <a href="http://www.spacesyntax.com/" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border-collapse: collapse; color: rgb(0, 86, 137); text-decoration: none; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; ">Space Syntax</a>, the proposed network would cover a catchment area of six million people, half of whom live and work within 10 minutes of an entrance. But its ambitions stretch beyond London alone.</p><p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 13px; border-collapse: collapse; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; ">“The dream is that you could wake up in Paris and cycle to the Gare du Nord,” says Sam Martin of Exterior Architecture. “Then get the train to Stratford, and cycle straight into central London in minutes, without worrying about trucks and buses.”</p><p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 13px; border-collapse: collapse; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; ">Developed over the last two years, the initial idea came from the student project of one of Martin's employees, Oli Clark, who proposed a network of elevated cycle routes weaving in and around Battersea power station. “It was a hobby in the office for a while,” says Martin. “Then we arranged a meeting at City Hall with the deputy mayor of transport – and bumped into Boris in the lift.”</p><p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 13px; border-collapse: collapse; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; ">Bumping into Boris has been the fateful beginning for some of the mayor's other adventures in novelty infrastructure, including <a href="http://www.domusweb.it/en/op-ed/2011/11/09/untangling-the-orbit.html" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border-collapse: collapse; color: rgb(0, 86, 137); text-decoration: none; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; ">Anish Kapoor's Orbit tower</a>, apparently forged in <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/blog/2010/apr/09/arcelormittal-anish-kapoor-orbit" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border-collapse: collapse; color: rgb(0, 86, 137); text-decoration: none; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; ">a chance meeting with Lakshmi Mittal in the cloakrooms at Davos</a>. Other encounters have resulted in cycle “superhighways” (<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/nov/15/london-cycling-superhighways-kamikazes-boris-johnson" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border-collapse: collapse; color: rgb(0, 86, 137); text-decoration: none; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; ">which many blame for the recent increase in accidents</a>) and a <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/shortcuts/2013/feb/18/emirates-air-line-cable-car-london" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border-collapse: collapse; color: rgb(0, 86, 137); text-decoration: none; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; ">£60 million cable car that doesn't really go anywhere</a>. But could SkyCycle be different?</p><p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 13px; border-collapse: collapse; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; ">“It's about having an eye on the future,” says Martin. “If London keeps growing and spreading itself out, with people forced to commute increasingly longer distances, then in 20 years it's just going to be a ghetto for people in suits. After <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/money/2014/jan/02/rail-fare-price-increases-condemned-passengers" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border-collapse: collapse; color: rgb(0, 86, 137); text-decoration: none; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; ">rail fare increases this week</a>, a greater percentage of people's income is being taken up with transport. There has to be another way to allow everyone access to the centre, and stop this doughnut effect.”</p><p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 13px; border-collapse: collapse; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; ">After meeting with Network Rail last year, the design team has focused on a 6.5km trial route from Stratford to Liverpool Street Station, following the path of the overground line, a stretch they estimate would cost around £220 million. Working with Roger Ridsdill-Smith, Foster's head of structural engineering, responsible for the Millennium Bridge, they have developed what Martin describes as “a system akin to a tunnel-boring machine, but happening above ground”.</p><p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 13px; border-collapse: collapse; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; ">“It's no different to the electrification of the lines west of Paddington,” he says. “It would involve a series of pylons installed along the outside edge of the tracks, from which a deck would project out. Trains could still run while the cycle decks were being installed.”</p><p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 13px; border-collapse: collapse; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; ">As for access, the proposal would see the installation of vertical hydraulic platforms next to existing railway stations, as well as ramps that took advantage of the raised topography around viaducts and cuttings. “It wouldn't be completely seamless in terms of the cycling experience,” Martin admits. “But it could be a place for Boris Bike docking stations, to avoid people having to get their own equipment up there.” He says the structure could also be a source of energy creation, supporting solar panels and rain water collection.</p><p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 13px; border-collapse: collapse; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; ">The rail network has long been seen as a key to opening up cycle networks, given the amount of available land alongside rail lines, but no proposal has yet suggested launching cyclists into the air.</p><figure data-media-id="gu-fc-79b4e336-4fba-4b4a-9d6e-851f82294b4c" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; border-collapse: collapse; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; "><img src="http://plat.renew.sh.cn/files/useruploadfiles/day_140105/2014-01-05_092308756.jpg" alt="The California Cycleway" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px auto 5px; border-collapse: collapse; display: block; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; " /><figcaption style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 0.858em; line-height: 1.25; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; ">Pipe dream … the California Cycleway, dreamt up in the 1890s, was never completed after the automobile industry took off. Photograph: Cycle Infrastructure/nai010</figcaption></figure><p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 13px; border-collapse: collapse; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; ">“It's a really interesting idea,” says Matt Winfield of Sustrans. “We've done a lot of work along rail corridors and have had ideas about suspending bike paths along the edge of rail infrastructure at particular pinch points and crossings. But we haven't yet succeeded because of cost or funding deadlines not allowing enough time.”</p><p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 13px; border-collapse: collapse; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; ">Funding remains the big question hanging over SkyCycle, with the designers currently looking for backing to fund a feasibility study.</p><p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 13px; border-collapse: collapse; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; ">“We certainly don't want to take money away from making cycling safe on the roads,” says Martin. “That should remain the priority. But our ambition is to redirect some of the money spent by central government on rail and road expenditure. Those billions can be used much more efficiently.”</p><p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 13px; border-collapse: collapse; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; ">Finance has confounded <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/architecture-design-blog/2013/jul/15/cycle-friendly-city-bike-lanes" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border-collapse: collapse; color: rgb(0, 86, 137); text-decoration: none; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; ">other attempts for aerial bikes routes</a> in the past. The California Cycleway, dreamt up in the 1890s, was planned to connect Pasadena and Los Angeles with 14km of raised timber decking, but only 2km of the track was ever built. Conceived as a private money-making enterprise, with a toll of 10 cents and 100,000 projected annual users, it never turned a profit, destroyed instead by the rise of the Model T Ford. More than a century later, will the SkyCycle team have better luck?</p></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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