On Thu, May 12, 2016 at 11:33 AM Heather Madrone <heat...@madrone.com> wrote:
> Thaths wrote: > > True, but I would not classify it as Mass or Rapid. Can you imagine a > > cable car system being able to deal with the NJ-NY traffic? > > Cable cars might replace some of the local surface transport in much the > same way that they operate in San Francisco. Cable car systems make more > sense in hilly terrain, but they used to be much more common than they > are now. GM and one of the tire companies (I forget which) bought up the > cable car systems in many U.S. cities so they could shut them down and > force people to buy automobiles. > > Cable cars can be spaced really closely. At peak times, a cable car > leaves Market Street in SF every 15 seconds. > Heather, I used to live in San Francisco. In my many years of living there I took the cable car twice. Both occasions were weekends. Once purely to experience the cable car ride and once as a means of getting around. I have walked past the Market St. cable car terminus hundreds of times and I cannot recall an instance where there wasn't a long line of people waiting 10+ minutes for the next cable car. Muni, IMO, does a much better job of providing cheap mass transit than the cable cars which are mostly a historical relic that brings in the tourists. Thaths
