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Post by anticondo on May 19, 2005 20:16:52 GMT -5
What if there were moving sidewalks every 5 blocks in wildwood going east and west? That might encourage lodging to be built on the blocks going back towards the bay, I know the Island is pretty wide in some spots.
It would be pretty wild if a whole new colorful doo wop motel district was developed along Park Blvd or something.
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Post by momto2 on May 21, 2005 10:40:01 GMT -5
you'd see a lot of drunk people falling off. LOL good idea though. Would fit in with the "Doo wop space age theme too"
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Post by FlyinGN on May 22, 2005 13:16:48 GMT -5
could you imagine the liability and maintenance costs? It would never happen
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Post by anticondo on May 22, 2005 21:05:45 GMT -5
Maybe a company should set up a Camel service to escort people from the beach and back in WW. I read the beach is over 1/2 a mile long in some spots.
Or build a subway line every 5 blocks going from the bay to the ocean.
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Post by AnthonyV on May 22, 2005 22:01:47 GMT -5
The camel idea was thrown about a few years ago and was refused or tossed out almost immediately down here probably due to an old law that was passed and has continued to be enacted resulting from the horrible "Tuffy the Lion" incident in 1938...I love animals but would have to agree that the Jersey Shore (more specifically Wildwood) is certainly no place for camels or any other animal.
Years ago Pt. Pleasant had this small train that ran along a track that took people from Jenkinsons Beach to the Pt. Pleasant boardwalk which got me thinking...Maybe some temporary modern designed tram could be placed between beach and boardwalk to help remedy the long distances people are confronted with, similar to the little rail system once used in Point Pleasant but more accomodating in getting families further out onto the beach.
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Post by FlyinGN on May 23, 2005 5:30:48 GMT -5
I seem to remember a train that used to run from the sidewalk to the beach. Maybe 10 years ago??? Anyone alse remember this??
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Post by wildre on May 23, 2005 7:55:57 GMT -5
I remember the Beach Tram, in NWW. It ran along the beach day and night in season. Never used it but seems it was popular. Since we lost so much beach in recent years I guess it's no longer needed.
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Post by FlyinGN on May 23, 2005 8:00:59 GMT -5
thank you Wildre. I knew I remembered that..
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Post by sandy on May 23, 2005 14:44:12 GMT -5
The notion of camels or subways or, come on, moving sidewalks, being employed or installed in the Wildwoods is simply absurd. Such quixotic flights of fancy are perfectly typical of the surreal, crazed vision for our little island that many non-residents have concocted. The Wildwoods are not, gasp, some little blank canvas for the fantastical projects of those who reside in its towns for three months at most and are too lazy to walk the exhaustive "1/2 mile in some spots" beach. I am appalled that anyone could even entertain this nonsense(or "ideas" like a boardwalk on the bay, etc.). Get a clue about the natural beauty of our island and the sensibilities of its taxpayers.
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Post by Doowopper on May 23, 2005 16:07:40 GMT -5
"The notion of camels or subways or, come on, moving sidewalks, being employed or installed in the Wildwoods is simply absurd. Such quixotic flights of fancy are perfectly typical of the surreal, crazed vision for our little island that many non-residents have concocted."
I understand Wildwood must keep it's natural beuty, that's one of the best things about it, but the low-rise futuristic styled motels and there space age designs did a better job keeping it than the 6 floor neo-victorian clones being put everywhere. And it seems most "non-residents" have a better idea of what Wildwood always was and was always ment to be than many of it's current residents. It's like the people in my town. We were a nice rural suburban town. Then came the clone developments and 10,000 people from staten island complaining that there is nothing to do here. Now my twon is horribly overcrowded. My town was never ment to be jam packed with houses in every available 1/2 acre lot, and Wildwood was never ment to be boring. Especially in the "motel district" and boardwalk.
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Post by novacancy on May 23, 2005 16:35:32 GMT -5
Whoa....I assumed the moving sidewalk and camel notions were a joke.
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Post by sandy on May 23, 2005 16:36:16 GMT -5
I am certainly no proponet of the sterile conformity of most of the new condos, or of residential overcrowding. You'll notice my post had nothing to do with architecture. Rather, I took issue with the ridiculous fantasies that many tourists dream up for a naturally beautiful island. I agree that many non-residents have sensible visions for the Wildwoods' future. Those who suggest such ludicrous schemes as those aforementioned should nevertheless not be counted among them. Furthermore, there is no single correct vision of what Wildwood was meant to be. Those that can be judged to be reasonable, however, most certainly do not incorporate such farces as moving sidewalks, substantial beach construction, or bayfront boardwalks. The articulation(and acceptance!) of these and other ridiculous schemes is understandably unsettling to residents expected to live with them year round.
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Post by wildwanderer on May 23, 2005 18:22:25 GMT -5
Moving Sidewalks? Something right out of the Jetsons heh. Oh, and Sandy you don't have to take everything so serious and so articulate. I think the idea is different. But think ,the tram car might have been thought of in the same manner.
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Post by AnthonyV on May 23, 2005 18:39:27 GMT -5
I can assure everyone here that the "idea" of "substantial beach construction" coming by way of portable trams was and IS STILL a very much an active concept to target and somewhat remedy the situation of the ever widening Wildwood beaches. It was also part of the major Doo Wop scheme initiated back in the late 1990s by many researchers, architects, and architecture students that has all but been abandoned it seems.
The camels on the beach issue was also a major topic of discussion down here only a few years back as well...Even though this one was pretty weird, they aren't all simply "ludicrous" or "ridiculous schemes."
I would tend to think that the single correct vision for the Wildwoods (business-wise) has always been that of a "honky-tonk" Jersey Shore resort town that could usually compete with other towns along the Jersey Shore and in other states as well.
I guess one of the only ways to maintain that "correct vision" is to keep most of Wildwood a resort town and not a haven for condo developments, which is why the Diamond Beach area exists.
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Post by sandy on May 23, 2005 18:46:48 GMT -5
Listen I was just sick of reading anti-condo's ridiculous ideas and narrow-minded ruminations on wildwood generally, not just about the sidewalks. His thoughts haven't been just different, they've been largely absurd. I do not oppose progress. It simply bothers many locals that people that spend so little time in our towns and pay little or no taxes have such fantastical and self-important conceptions of what they should be.
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