Cable Car

A cable car over Caerphilly Mountain would be more useful!

It's on the Daily Mash... so it must be official!

http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/politics/ ... 5032396578

"PLANS to do insane things like turning Swansea into a sunken lagoon have been waved through by a distracted parliament.

While the coalition government focuses on the election campaign, Wales’s National Assembly has voted to launch a space programme, trade plutonium with North Korea and to introduce breeding pairs of jaguars to the Brecon Beacons.

Maniacally laughing presiding officer Rosemary Butler said: “We’re getting away with murder, we are.

“We only sent that thing about making Swansea a tide-power hub of excellence to George Osborne for a laugh, and it ended up in his budget speech.

“The cable car thing – using a method of transport specifically designed for a gradient between three flat places – got mixed up with what is now the Trans-Snowdonia Skatepark.

“After that we went wild. We’re building a 104,000 seater stadium without access roads in mid-Powys, we’re cloning humans in abandoned mineshafts and work on the £285 billion Atlantic Tunnel has already begun.

“We send the proposals over in Welsh and they just sign them.”

^^^

When I read it this morning I laughed loads and then the penny dropped, THAT is how daft the cable car proposal actually sounds.

Why not ?

Thats the problem with how the Welsh think. Instead of thinking big and how it would be interesting for tourists, we look at it like we could do something more sensible

if New York, London, Paris thought like that they would just be average cities. Its things like a cable car idea that makes us different from Bristol or Newcastle.

Why not ?

Thats the problem with how the Welsh think. Instead of thinking big and how it would be interesting for tourists, we look at it like we could do something more sensible

if New York, London, Paris thought like that they would just be average cities. Its things like a cable car idea that makes us different from Bristol or Newcastle.

Umm despite south Wales pioneering passenger rail transport - http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline ... ay_history - we have (as far as I can tell) one of the few dense commuter rail networks on Earth that hasn't been electrified. So £100 million could help us catch up with the hundreds of cities listed here:

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ ... it_systems

and here:

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_metro_systems

and here:

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ ... il_systems

Surely a cable car is a jam on top project? How could anyone justify spending 100m on something that will primarily be aimed at tourists and would connect areas that are literally 10 minutes walk away and are already served by rail and bus services?

Particularly when we have yet to electrify the valleys lines and in doing so connect some of the poorest communities in Wales to one of the few, realistic sources of meaningful and well paid jobs ie. Cardiff?

If the private sector want to fund this then great - I'm sure Hugh James and Admiral and Lloyds and Paramount Interiors et al are all prepared to chuck in 5m or so for the privilege of having their adverts on the side of a cable car. But I'd prefer any public money spent on transport provision to represent better value than a gimmick.

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Unsurprisingly (or thankfully) Cardiff Council distances itself from the crazy cable car plan;

http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/cardiff-council-no-involvement-plans-8947727