Comment 112908

By seancb (registered) - website | Posted July 20, 2015 at 10:00:52 in reply to Comment 112881

Aerial trams/gondolas are much more efficient than buses for traversing an escarpment crossing. The downbound trams cancel the weight of the upbound ones so the energy inputs are relatively low, they only require a single operator for all of the cars, the wait times are lower for passengers and they are quite affordable to build actually. We should have two upper transit terminals, each with a tram linking to sister stations down the mountain. The first would be from hunter station to the park at the top of the claremont. The second would be east - gage or kenilworth. Then we would greatly reduce the number of mountain buses trundling up and down all day, and mountain routes could be realigned to connect to terminals and have more frequent service. The tram connection would only be a few minutes long as there would be a car running every minute or two... http://seattletransitblog.com/2012/03/07...

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