This commuter thought of it when racing down Roupelle Street to catch a
train. That travelling along here with commuters going both ways doing the
elbow thing was very like going down a certain straight near b43/44 on the
Llangollen. On this bit of cut there always seems to be boats going both ways
and we have to dodge in and out when boats come the other way (often flat out
in their race to Llangollen) as this wide stretch is so narrowed by fast
growing trees and bushes.
I haven't been to R St for 20 years (thank god) but that bit of canal is
still the same. (One side - the off one - was cut back a few years ago but last
year it had grown back to narrow the channel in places to barely one boat wide.
Now with the staff cuts one wonders what the future holds for this and other
lengths that need cutting frequently. )
David Cragg
qwertybjg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
--- In [email protected], David Cragg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> Another thing noticed while commuting was the ability of the
London commuter to operate on a narrow pavement very like boats often
need to operate on narrow shallow canals. Namely, commuters coming
from opposite directions approach each other with both in the centre
of the pavement and just as they meet each moves over a bit to slide
past with (left) elbow withdrawn. Just as on the canals when this is
done by those in the know it works very nicely but if a regular
commuter met a tourist then often the tourist would panic and veer
wildly away - just as some boaters do when confronted with an
approaching boat.
>
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>
David Cragg
>
>
One wonders what the commuters would think of such a wonderfully
thought out analogy.
Ben
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