On 8 May 2016 at 13:32, Shenoy N <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > > > Aerial Tramways. Mumbai has no room for 1 and 2. Hills are not required, > Thaths, it's just that cable cars are usually seen in hilly places because > of the difficulty and cost involved in building roads there. > > Mumbai has a LOT of encroachment. Even a bus rapid transport system is > difficult to implement because most of the encroachers are protected under > a squatter's rights law. > > The aerial cable car system seems perfect for this city. But there ARE some > obvious problems. > 1. The capacity of a cable car is about 12 people. This means that for the > high commuting population that Mumbai has, you'll need one hell of a lot of > cars. The Mumbai local train system, for example, carries 7.5 million > people daily. Cable car lines in Bolivia and other latin american > countries, carry something of the order of 100,000 a day. > 2. They appear to be slow (though, to be fair, the distances are usually > quite small because they can just go over obstacles. > > This will never work in Indian cities ....Aerial Cable Car = Mumbai Monorail ? Which is the urban transport joke of the century for a city like Mumbai. The Mumbai metro was the best bet ...unfortunately that is too small and restricted to be of any significance.
