Tuesday, December 21, 2021

Gondolas?

 There's a great piece written up on Focus today....on the topic of Gondolas and how several German cities are reviewing the idea of introducing them for mass transit.  I'd recommend a read of the article. 

There's a study done now....looking at Munich and the idea of a 4.5 km long Gondolas 'network'.  Covid did come along to lengthen the study, and it'll be released in 2022.  

You can speculate a bit on this, but until one major city goes to placing a network....say two or three lines of 2-to-3 km's long....you can't predict the success rate of this.

Personally?  I look locally at my town of Wiesbaden and it could very easily connect to Mainz, and have a downtown-to-downtown run of twelve minutes.  Put in a stop or two on each side of the river, and this would make perfect sense.  

In Frankfurt?  I could see three or four networks.  

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