Cable cars are new option for city transport
Cars increase, buildings saturate centers and some times city geography is a problem for the creation of efficient city transportation systems. What do you do? The city of Haifa in Israel is going ahead with a novel cable car system that is ideal to bypass hills and densely built areas. Finally, this skiing hobby is paying off!
Anyone that has gone for skiing holidays must have come across the latest multi-cabin cable car systems or multi-seat chair-lifts. They are blazingly fast and fun to use. Each compartment takes from four people and up, while getting in and out is nice and simple with slow speed cable lines at both end stations. An advantage is the fact that when taking the cabin there is always a queue for prospective users, therefore the waiting time is relatively short. Moreover, traveling relatively fast above road level is much more pleasant than playing the rat in a metro system.
So far I have come across two-cabin systems for city locations of touristic value. Although cable cars are quite silent, I am not sure that their appearance would be to everybody’s liking. Nevertheless, I love Haifa’s plan to start operation by 2010 and hope to see similar systems in more cities.
Link: Treehugger
