My point isn't that the METRO system does not work, rather that having seen the volume a mass-transit system would be required to handle, I was skeptical that the SkyWeb would be able to do so easily.
My first thought about a weakness here is during rush hour. How will the system handle a very popula destination station where there are more vehicles waiting to unload their passengers than the station has spots at the terminal for, and room on the side-track? Seems this would back up the transit track. It just doesn't seem like the system could handle the sheer volume of a metropolitan rush hour (I'm using Wash., D.C. and the METRO system as my point-of-reference).
"Hardly surprisingly results so far show that we don't like losing, and that gaming puts you into an altered state. I can see it now.. computer games, the next designer drug."
You can extend this sort of train of thought to anything that people enjoy to do, or at least enjoy doing without putting chemicals in yuor body. They're called endorphins, and whether you get the endorphin rush from fragging or mario kart or playing soccer it's the same thing. Endorphins, the original designer drug.
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My point isn't that the METRO system does not work, rather that having seen the volume a mass-transit system would be required to handle, I was skeptical that the SkyWeb would be able to do so easily.
My first thought about a weakness here is during rush hour. How will the system handle a very popula destination station where there are more vehicles waiting to unload their passengers than the station has spots at the terminal for, and room on the side-track? Seems this would back up the transit track. It just doesn't seem like the system could handle the sheer volume of a metropolitan rush hour (I'm using Wash., D.C. and the METRO system as my point-of-reference).
"Hardly surprisingly results so far show that we don't like losing, and that gaming puts you into an altered state. I can see it now.. computer games, the next designer drug." You can extend this sort of train of thought to anything that people enjoy to do, or at least enjoy doing without putting chemicals in yuor body. They're called endorphins, and whether you get the endorphin rush from fragging or mario kart or playing soccer it's the same thing. Endorphins, the original designer drug.