https://nitter.net/swyftcities/status/1605251995538845696
hey guys hear me out, what if we made a monorail but made it slower and even lower-capacity
ogdenville and north haverbrook would have nothing on us
innovative gondola
Goes on to describe a regular ass cable car:took-restraint:
one of the comments by them says it has "Autonomous Guidance." Like fuck, it only goes one way or the other what the hell would autonomous guidance even do.
Getting fired because I had to call in due to the gondola breaking down and being stuck 30 feet in the air
Explaining why this is a terrible idea using various transportation rides in roller coaster tycoon
I want to get off mr bones wild ride!
I WANT TO GET OFF MR. BONES WILD RIDE!!!
tbf this is a legitimate way to solve transit issues in mountainous or hilly terrain, bolivia has some really innovative ones that are very cheap/free.
but its kinda a waste in flat terrain
The only reason you'd consider a gondola is if you had an especially hilly city that made other options difficult and a populous that has collective amnesia regarding funiculars. This is clearly a scam considering the promotional image...
Vancouver's recent public transit expansion actually includes a gondola, but it goes to the top of a fucking mountain so it kinda makes sense.
Capitalists shooting people out of cannons rather than building public transit.
what is it with these guys and not understanding that trains work
Imagine if a corpo came up to you and tried to explain why people who work in service need to be paid less than a living wage. They'd be bewildered how you don't understand that hierarchical depravity just works. They just already know that you can't have public utilities, projects, culture, etc as an axiom of their decision making
this is why after the Berlin wall fell the new german government destroyed the pallace of the republic the way a building so full of free public utilities just worked made them furious so they destroyed it
To rebuild a Prussian royal palace no less. Without having any historic artifacts to put in it so they put corporations in there instead.
Hopefully interest rate hikes will drive fake companies like this out of business.
what if you had actual gondolas and built canals but in the sky? sky canals. we're doing sky canals. capitalism.
I clutch the monkey's paw, close my eyes, and wish North America had European-style transportation infrastructure.
I look out the window and see a brand new aqueduct.
I guess if this isn’t a scam the idea is that it’s basically multi-terminal, rider-switchable cable cars? I don’t see why they’d need to be “autonomous” if you couldn’t switch routes at a non terminal-point (like handling 3 way junctions).
Or is the point of these scams that you get to imagine whatever you want? I guess whatever they did at/for google would be an example.
They don’t give you anything concrete on the website. Must be a “need to know basis” type of thing lol.
I’m definitely not knowledgeable on transport, but since @kristina mentioned it, I found an ok article on Bolivia’s cable cars, which gives a map of the Bolivian system. They do everything in “branches” where you make your routing decisions at terminals, by taking different cars
https://youtu.be/OlmPlTIvU8U
heres a vid of it, theres a lot of legitimate uses of it in this video. like there are some bits where it would be flatly impossible / extremely absurdly expensive to put a train/tram underground or overground for passengers. the best ones imo are where they take advantage of cliffsides and rock faces for the poles that would be otherwise useless for transportation like with the silver line
There are some cities with public transit gondola systems due to extremely hilly terrain, which makes me wonder why they used perfectly flat ground for the promo render.
This is vaporware. Extreme inefficiency of low-density transit + high capital seed and maintenance costs = :funny-clown-hammer: proposal
Oh yeah I was just insinuating that if something like this ever did get built by one of these bazinga companies it would be an absolute catastrophic disaster.
