Curvo non-linear
ropeway sounds very exciting and revolutionary. Is this your brain child? How
did you come up with this idea? Also, what are the technological challenges you
faced with this product?
The concept is unique, because non linear Ropeway travelling
over existing road routes in urban cities, would be the first in the world, and
therefore, could be called revolutionary, as it would constitute a 2nd tier
transportation system for cities.
It is exciting as well.
You can well imagine the excitement at every stage that myself and my
co-workers went through, as we progressed from development to design and
commissioning of the prototype, culminating into a heavenly joy, when the trial
cabin went through the route of approx.
500mtr., negotiating two Angular Modules, unhindered during its up and down
journey.
Is Curvo your
Brain Child?
The concept was mine, I have to say. Unless all the members working on the
prototype implementation had adopted it, we could not have achieved the
success. So, it is a joint brain child
of all the staff of CRSPL deployed on the non-linear prototype project.
What inspired you
for something as ground breaking as Curvo?
It erupted from umpteen nos. of ills and miseries that
the gasoline driven vehicular system inflicted on urban commuters. They are very glaring and damaging too, to
urbanites
1. Vehicular accidents on city roads
2. Pollution from vehicular emissions of toxic gases,
dangerously harmful to respiratory system of city dwellers
3. Traffic jams and loss of time from more and more vehicular induction on city roads, whereas,
the existing road do not have any scope for expansion or widening
4. The sufferings, and I repeat, the sufferings that the
urban commuters are undergoing, are also resulting in huge drainage of foreign
exchange and subsidies thereon, for importing oil from Gulf countries, to run
the fuming city buses.
My eldest daughter contacted asthma and dust allergy,
about 20 years ago. It was followed by
my grandson’s about 8 years ago. They
gave me the first jerk. The second and
the most serious jerk that I experienced was when opening the morning
newspaper, about 8 years ago, I was shocked to find two girls on way to school
in the morning, were crushed under the wheels of two racing buses at the landing
of No. 4 bridge near Park Circus Railway Station, Kolkata.
Earlier, it was thoughts which I expressed in various
global forays on Ropeways, where I pleaded for the Industry’s entry into urban
areas, in addition to serving for winter sport, mainly. All that, gave me
conviction, and I started serious work to find a solution.
Dealing with Aerial Ropeways in national and
international arena for decades, my attention
went to the space available above
city roads, but realised that, to avail that space, a non linear system needed
to be developed as roads routes are non linear only.