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pash wrote:And I seem to have forgotten to note this proposal for a gondola connecting Manhattan and Williamsburg, Brooklyn, across the East River.

Note the section of the webpage highlighting urban gondolas in London, Singapore, Rio de Janeiro, Gaia (Portugal), and Koblenz (Germany).

seems logical, since they already have something similar connecting roosevelt island: http://rioc.ny.gov/tramtransportation.htm

DaveKCMO wrote:

pash wrote:And I seem to have forgotten to note this proposal for a gondola connecting Manhattan and Williamsburg, Brooklyn, across the East River.

Note the section of the webpage highlighting urban gondolas in London, Singapore, Rio de Janeiro, Gaia (Portugal), and Koblenz (Germany).

seems logical, since they already have something similar connecting roosevelt island: http://rioc.ny.gov/tramtransportation.htm

People tend to forget that KC now has its own Gondolas (kind of) thanks not to Clay Chastain but to Randy Wisthoff. The chair lifts at the zoo across Africa are KC's first and still only attempt to use anything of that genre as a transportation system. The zoo lift would have been better suited moving people from near the entrance to Africa and being a true transportation system than its role as essentially a ride. As it is, if you take the chair lift across the exhibit, the return walking trip misses half the exhibit so seeing the other half on foot requires 1.5X the amount of walking as skipping the chair altogether and doing it entirely on foot.

"The chair lifts at the zoo across Africa are KC's first and still only attempt to use anything of that genre as a transportation system. "

Believe Worlds of Fun had a gondola system when it opened.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_c ... lds_of_Fun
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