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He told RTM: “This idea is future- future; it’s not going to happen next week. It’s about trying to think about how we can ‘free up’ cities, and get rid of cars. That’s what it comes down to.


“Over the years, there have been a number of concepts of trains that don’t stop. But I think what I was trying to get at is reducing the need to build stations, and in particular having this type of connectivity. The idea came to me while waiting


at a station one day, thinking ‘why are the boards telling me where I can go’, rather than the other way round.


“It just started to gel as an idea – wouldn’t it be amazing if you could just get on a tram outside your front door, go to another street, another city, another country?


“If you can get two spacecraft to dock in space, it should be easy enough to do it on rails!”


Although aimed primarily at geo- graphically large countries build- ing up their high-speed networks, he said the beauty of the concept is that it can use existing infra- structure in many cases, wherever


high-speed and local lines already exist next to each other. It can also be used to transfer from one high- speed train to another.


He said: “I like the idea of instead


98 | rail technology magazine Jun/Jul 11


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