re: Urban gondolas in Baton Rouge? BRAF considering it.

I don't see why so many are against this, it's actually fairly genius. A large gondola can hold 200 people, and there could be stops spread out along the outer skirt of downtown Baton Rouge like a spider web all meeting in several centralized locations. The towers and cables are fairly cheap compared to roadway, and can traverse over bodies of water, hills, lowlands, and levees much cheaper than building bridges and excavating the land. Have large parking areas at the outskirts of the city at each beginnig point and have 90% of the gondolas running into the city during the morning rush hours, 90% of them running from the inside of the city outwards during the afternoon. Could alleviate tons of traffic in largely populated, condensed downtown areas like New Orleans and BR. Imagine parking in Slidell at a large parking lot then riding the gondola into downtown NO, instead of facing the hassle of traffic along the interstate and surface roads downtown. Would make life easier for thousands, especially if the pick-up spots were strategically placed to alleviate the most popular interstate routes into downtown.

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Something like this, where the gondola cables ran on a straight to-and-from basis and didn't intertwine with eachother or move throughout the city, only drop off and head back to the original pickup point. From there, bus stations as well as cabs would be placed around each drop off point, for those that need to get to places further than a few blocks away.