Funiculars are absolute garbage.
I was part of the steering committee for the Prairie Sky project through 2019. I had some personal life stuff emerge that took me off of it, but I think it's a phenomenal idea. The recent article is pretty comical in it's opposition here are two low hanging fruit examples:
- Edmonton winter has nothing on winter in the mountains at high altitudes, where gondolas are commonplace technology
- The river valley is comically undeveloped; it's absolutely inaccessible to a large portion of the community, and frankly a large portion of the community doesn't want to use ####ty 2 foot wide bike trails all year. Instead a large portion of the community would indeed like a developed area they can sit and have coffee by the river, something that does not exist at all in this city today.
This is proveable through myriad city led public engagements, including the round of engagement that wound up funding the boondoggle that is the Edmonton Funicular!!
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