A group of local residents are proposing an urban gondola, called SkyLink, to connect West Seattle via aerial cable with Seattle's Link light rail and regional transit network.
A gondola will never, ever meet the traffic demands that the west Seattle light rail will handle out of the gate. These gondolas are “projected” to hold 10 people each. To match the light rails 80,000/day current ridership, there would need to be 8000 gondola trips/day.
This is a clutch of NIMBY business owners who are either up to be eminent domain’ed working with rich residents that want west Seattle to continue to seperate from Seattle proper.
Its absolutely wild that the neighborhood that was effectively “islanded” for over a year because of a bridge failing is actively fighting mass transit options into and out of the neighborhood.
A gondola will never, ever meet the traffic demands that the west Seattle light rail will handle out of the gate. These gondolas are “projected” to hold 10 people each. To match the light rails 80,000/day current ridership, there would need to be 8000 gondola trips/day.
This is a clutch of NIMBY business owners who are either up to be eminent domain’ed working with rich residents that want west Seattle to continue to seperate from Seattle proper.
Its absolutely wild that the neighborhood that was effectively “islanded” for over a year because of a bridge failing is actively fighting mass transit options into and out of the neighborhood.
They said those same things in Brockway, Ogdenville, and North Haverbrook!
Put up plans for a monorail and then I’ll be listening. This is just bull hockey.