Elevated Walkalator as Part of the Traffic Solution
Before you say, “eyyyy….” let me remind you that is can be highly related to tourism, specially in dense urban areas that often serve as tourist service areas or travel gateways. Read on.
Here’s one great mobility solution that can help ease commuting in dense urban areas. It can accommodate hundreds of thousands of commuters per day, super low cost, virtually zero accident possibility, greatly lowered carbon, and can significantly improve the well-being of commuting public. Plus improve the economic dynamics of the area. Yup, that solution has been in existence for many decades, only we refuse to see it on a more macro scale and look at it as an optional luxury feature. It’s time to take a very close look at the moving walkway.
I have been involved in a number of tourist flow management projects. And i realize that the same principles of managing visitor movements can be implemented for dense cities.
Cities often have no choice but to crowd all the transportation options in a single infrastructure.
Imagine a commuting solution that is 100% safe, efficient, healthy, economically-viable, low carbon footprint (imagine taking away tens of thousands of cars out of the road because they have become unnecessary). Yup, all of them can be achieved thru a moving walkway.
Instead of waiting for already crowded buses, commuters can use the time to get to their destinations.
Easy to say that 80% of Metro Manila citizens have been subjected to humiliation of pathetic commuting on a daily basis.
The secret to make the walkway feasible is by sectioning which makes it possible to make repairs without interrupting the movement of commuters.
Long, elevated walkways are already in existence in Metro Manila.
Most commuters travel within 4 kilometer distances. But that short distance can be hellish for many. Imagine if an elevated walkway is made to conveniently bring people from the inner parts of BGC to EDSA. That would be awesome!
When you see the actual distance between C5 and EDSA, you will realize that an elevated walkway is very practical.
Yup, nobody, absolutely nobody will become a loser in the walkway.