Crazy ideas... discuss or add your own

[amcdonald]

Totally out there idea that no one will have thought about before and will never happen.

How about update the motorway network to be sustainable over the next 50 years and address congestion areas that cost us all so much time and frustration.

If there was more home working there would be less congestion, throwing more money at a problem and hoping it will just go away is so New Labour

[DimPrawn]

If there was more home working there would be less congestion, throwing more money at a problem and hoping it will just go away is so New Labour

Yes, but where will all the Polish builders work?

[amcdonald]

Yes, but where will all the Polish builders work?

Tellytubby land ?

[Scrag Meister]

My pet projects (completely unfeasable) are:

1) Heat water centrally and pipe hot water through insulated pipes to houses eliminating the need for individual boilers/storage tanks etc.
2) Under road heating for snowy/icy conditions

Number 1 is already in place in Copenhagen where waste hot water used during the generation of electricity from the local power plant is sent to residences for their heating.

[mudskipper]

Number 1 is already in place in Copenhagen where waste hot water used during the generation of electricity from the local power plant is sent to residences for their heating.

We could use the gas pipes - we wouldn't need gas if we had piped hot water.

[DimPrawn]

We could use the gas pipes - we wouldn't need gas if we had piped hot water.

Perhaps we could pipe all the hot air out of sasguru's gob?

[vetran]

Build all new houses to be nearly completely self sufficient energy & water wise.

Insulation, air source heat, PV, solar hot water.

Grey water & rain water reuse.

At the same time retrofit social housing the same way.

Street etc lighting to go LED.

Don't nationalise energy / water firms make them far less powerful.


Park & Ride for London. Huge multi storey and high speed one stop rail/dedicated route bus/water route at reasonable rate. We aren't going to stop people using cars, we can stop them trying to use them to go to office work in London etc. Heathrow Express could be extended out to say Colnbrook and a multi storey built. Ticket cost to be less than congestion charge. Similar could be done at other compass points.

Encourage home working by tax and infrastructure benefits.

Double decker motorways.

Double rail routes (2 tracks in place of 1) .Larger multi storey trains.

Force ticket to be a right to a seat on journeys longer than 15 minutes, maximum occupancy in tubes.

Distribute business around UK. all our eggs are in London.