Urban planner advocates for a new Toronto transit system—i.e. gondolas

Here’s a novel, if not totally insane, idea: urban planner and founder of Creative Urban Projects Steven Dale thinks Toronto could improve its public transportation with a network of gondola cable lines ferrying people around the city (we already have visions of our own Roosevelt Island Tram). Dale says gondola lines can serve as a “complement” to light-rail transit, while costing roughly one to two thirds the price. Of course, what gondolas may have in cost efficiency they lack in being-a-Sheppard-subway, so don’t look for them any time soon. But who knows, maybe Dale could appeal to idea man Doug Ford. We already know he loves the other kind of gondola. Read the entire story [CBC] »