As part of my plan to rule the World, I was thinking of transport issues and the building of HS4 to the West County and Wales (although after their independence, the new line won’t actually cross the newly rebuilt Offa’s Dike which the Welsh paid for). My plan is to pull down the National Library (after all who needs books anymore) and to build a new station there; selling off Paddington for the building of a people’s fun palace dedicated to me
Which got me thinking of a way to transport people across the massive site which would be the New Euston, St Pancras and Kings Cross station, after all it would be far too far to walk given all the riches my rule will bring to the people. My remedy would be rolling roads as described by Isaac Asimov.
While this is a brilliant idea, it took some thinking regarding how on and off ramps would work as there was an issue to be solved concerning transferring from the on ramp onto the normal running lane. I worked out that this would require people to stand on the right of the normal running lane if the road was to run on the left as normal in the UK.
All of this got me thinking….why do we stand on the right on escalators in London?