This would be an excellent idea! It’s not for all cases but this could be adopted where it makes sense 👏
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Sure, it's been done. It has worked well in Medellin and now several Latin American cities are starting to get them. There's a proposal to do one in Burnaby, BC to go up Burnaby Mountain.
It seems like mountainous terrain is a requirement. Are you thinking about anything specific, or is this just a shower thought?
Not just mountainous terrain. Mexico City has one that goes over some densely packed naighborhoods. The roads are not good for buses, so the cable cars go over the town and connect to the BRT
Anything a train can't do, yeah.
Also works well over bodies of water.
Mountainous terrain isn't required, but it's the situation in which cable cars make the most sense because "better" options that require relatively flat ground aren't available.
Remember, the big selling point of a cable car is that it's cheap, but it's also lower-capacity than more usual kinds of transit. It's more legit than some gimmicky 'gadgetbahn', but not by much.
If a normal LRT is possible then it is the gadgetbahn.
Yeah I shouldn't say a requirement, but it's certainly more likely to be considered in elevated terrain.
There's a new CBC Radio article that OP may have forgotten to link to.
It does seem like there's not much of a use case if you don't have the requirement to cover a large change in elevation in a relatively short distance - mountains, or to get up and over a shipping lane, or something like that. The article argues for them to be inexpensive, which...I'm sure they are, but they seem to be relatively low-capacity, and pretty limited in terms of the number of stops you could include on a route. But I'm not an expert, and maybe I'd be surprised.
I did! Yeah that was the one 🤨
FYI when you post articles it is best practice to keep the same title
Noted! Damn newbs! 😝
Yeah I read the same article and thought I included the link but silly me 😝 I assumed a mountainous terrain was a requirement but appears to be doable here in the GTA too. I was surprised to learn a project is already underway in the Oshawa region.
You can edit your post and add a link, and articles should be link style posts, not image style posts.