Competition

[webofevil]

There are ads on the Underground for New Zealand. They feature a picture very similar to this one:

and the strapline, "CAN YOU IMAGINE A BETTER JOURNEY TO WORK?"

That's your challenge right there. Can you? Here's my suggestion.

Fig. 1: The luge	Fig. 2: The luge (reverse view)

Comments

[alfaguru.livejournal.com]

5 minute walk

I have a 5 second walk to work... though it does mean I start turning computers on and logging in while I'm waiting for my breakfast toast, which is probably Not A Good Thing.

[themezzanine.livejournal.com]

You'd just get splattered against a building if you were fired to work by an elastic band, though. Not practical.

[webofevil.livejournal.com]

This is almost intellectual-property-infringingly close to an idea of cornfedpig's and mine about establishing an elaborate system of trebuchets across London for precisely this purpose. We were standing on top of Gypsy Hill on a searingly bright day envisaging clumps of commuters being hurled across the city. They would be aimed at giant nets at the other end, but obviously any system can encounter problems, so in case any customers' destination outcomes were differently delivered and they found themselves plummeting towards the capital before their stop, Trebuchets for London would obviously have installed a series of awnings along the route so their landing could be safely broken in a manner akin to the beginning of Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, and possibly also in Big Trouble in Little China, I don't know, I can't remember.


Prototype London Trebuchet, 1/40th final size

[themezzanine.livejournal.com]

I have always wanted a death slide from home to work. (Someone up there called it a zip line, which I guess is a better term as it does not have the word death in it.) My late father posited the idea of an overhead bypass between Christchurch and Bournemouth so as to avoid the ring road, but I expect this is an idea that only works if you are my late father.