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Old 08-06-2013, 12:14 PM
 
Location: Umbrosa Regio
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non-standard methods of transportation
How about a cross-river catapult? Or a pneumatic tube personal transport system?
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Old 08-06-2013, 12:27 PM
 
Location: Pittsburgh, PA
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How about a cross-river catapult? Or a pneumatic tube personal transport system?
Put me down as one vote for the pneumatic tube. I think that would be awesome.
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Old 08-06-2013, 12:34 PM
 
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A funicular that goes over flat surfaces is a train. A funicular that goes over water is a train on a bridge.
The cars are different. If the incline continued down Grandview or something everyone would be reclining. I'm sure there's some way to engineer around that, but gondolas can traverse the different terrains much more easily and with less infrastructure.
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Old 08-06-2013, 12:40 PM
 
Location: Marshall-Shadeland, Pittsburgh, PA
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If only we had a member who was an expert on urban gondolas.
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Old 08-06-2013, 12:49 PM
 
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If only we had a member who was an expert on urban gondolas.
Too true. BrianTH could field this way better than I can. I just can't imagine a funicular/train going from say Troy Hill to Beechview via the East End and South Side, but it's easy to imagine a gondola doing that.
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Old 08-06-2013, 01:02 PM
 
Location: The Flagship City and Vacation in the Paris of Appalachia
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Not enough steel in gondolas, we need to get the steel mills fired up again to create jobs and funiculars everywhere would require steel for the tracks.
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Old 08-06-2013, 01:15 PM
 
Location: southwestern PA
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Not enough steel in gondolas, we need to get the steel mills fired up again to create jobs and funiculars everywhere would require steel for the tracks.
Not many of the old mills are still around....
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Old 08-06-2013, 01:33 PM
 
Location: Philly
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That would indeed be nice. But, while we're one non-standard methods of transportation, I'd rather see an escalator up Heart Attack Hill.
would you have to rename it escalator hill?
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Old 08-06-2013, 01:35 PM
 
Location: southwestern PA
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Heart Attack Hill?

Did you rename Cardiac Hill (Oakland), or is that a different one?
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Old 08-06-2013, 01:45 PM
 
Location: The Flagship City and Vacation in the Paris of Appalachia
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Not many of the old mills are still around....
LOL it was a joke and actually I think there is only 1 mill left.
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