"Far from being an outlandish, unpractical idea, gondolas are the future of urban transportation. And the sky’s not the limit, for they hold a unique potential to transform both public transit and the landscape of the city. Boston, let’s rise above and embrace them."
1. I'm gondola-agnostic, but if it's just replicating a road or transit, we're just paying to not do what's right.
2. If we can't keep trains in good repair, you really wanna dangle from an MBTA cable?
https://apps.bostonglobe.com/opinion/graphics/2023/05/blue-sky-boston/?s_campaign=opmbta:newsletter
@bikepedantic There's literally no argument to support that claim. Hard pass.
But if you want to put some gondolas in canals, I'm in.
@ef4 @bikepedantic @costrike also: low operational and capital costs with zero wait time for a vehicle. Not to mention the ability to reach places that are impractical to reach (directly) by road, such as in Medellin, Columbia.
@Yendor @bikepedantic @costrike on a mountain, sure. But anywhere else, it’s a lower-capacity bus rapid transit that costs more.
@Yendor @bikepedantic @costrike as for “zero wait time” I’ve stood in way too many lift lines to believe that.
@ef4 @bikepedantic @costrike How many of those were transit-grade installations?
@ef4 @bikepedantic @costrike 7500 pphpd is "lower-grade bus rapid transit"?
@bikepedantic @costrike yeah literally the only problem gondolas solve is “we’re too cowardly to take any space from private vehicles”.