"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
@samerfarha i suspect that Big Gondola is mostly just real-estate developers. It's a great way to dip into public transit capital funding to pay for what, if we're honest, is going to end up in many of these proposals just being a well-used recreational attraction, rather than getting to/from places.
Not that there's anything wrong with that, but we deserve honesty.
@samerfarha in the same vein, the CC2DCA bridge to National is technically about walkability, but it's more about walking to/from Crystal Drive as a $5-cheaper Uber pickup point, and monetizing JBGSmith's huge excess of parking capacity as cheaper offsite airport parking.
