New Zealand’s Cheaper Than Uber Cable Cars To Offer Quicker, Greener Travel By 2027

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1. How many people does it move per dollar, per watt and per hour?

   How much redundancy do you need?

   What’s the dwell time at each station? Capacity of a cabin, weight limits?

   This sounds on the face of it very similar to a dozen other people movers that have all failed to find a gap between rail bus taxi and tram.
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   It might make sense in a country with very frequent steep gradients, where road and rail construction would be significantly more expensive, and I hope this flourishes in NZ if that’s the case. It doesn’t sound like a generally applicable transport tech though.

2. Gondola lifts are tourist attractions. They’re not meant for public transportation. (unless in extreme geographic situations, which obviously doesn’t apply here)

3. With how wildly expensive trains seem to be for anglophone countries I’m surprised gondolas aren’t being further explored for dense short routes.

4. Apples. Oranges.

   Uber is point to point. Cable cars are not.

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