I think this has parental for way too much traffic in the harbour. One of my brother's works on one of the tour boats and with the ferries, water taxi and tour boats it's very busy plus if you add in people in sail boats and many other personal boats it can be a real mess at times.
I have a hard time believing congestion within the harbour is any more than a minor nuisance to some, or isn't a solvable problem if it were to become one. And we should be giving preference to public vessels rather than to private pleasure crafts.
It's actually people who rent sailboats that cause the most trouble as they are small enough that they don't have radios on them and most of them don't always stay out of the way of boats as they should.
As for more fairies I'm not really sure if it's in the cities budget as they also need to consider replacing the current ones before they add any new ones as the current ones are getting older and closer to when they need to retire them.
I have seen harbours all over the world, Toronto's is quite pathetic in terms of traffic and anything going on at all. Vancouver, the bastion of leftist tree huggers, has far more going on in it's harbours. This idea that a harbour is supposed to be quiet and serene is just BS.
Our Habour isn't as busy as those ones because it isn't a major seaport like they are. What we need to do is stop the BS with comparing ourselves to other cities and saying w should have what they have instead of embracing what we do have..
Maybe we can steal the one from Evergreen Brick Works, seeing as that plan is so close to coming into fruition!
I am thinking more like this one:
Roosevelt Island Tramway - Wikipedia
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When you have only two stops, out of which one is connected to rapid transit and you know that there will be no extentions to the line, gondolas make perfect sense. Also, they are not expensive to build, or operate and are environmentally friendly.
I know that Toronto will never think outside of the box. Even if it were, Islands residents would do everything in their power to stop any link to the mainland.
Fine! If we're going all fantasy, all the time...........
I suggest a catapult!
Its fast, low-cost, straight-forward in design; and damn if that wouldn't draw people, if only to watch!
The Roosevelt Tramway was a great way to get to the island and I think would be a great idea. If it can be done with the flight path in the way, that'd be great. It has the same charm as the ferry to get to the island. The transport is an adventure!I am thinking more like this one:
Roosevelt Island Tramway - Wikipedia
When you have only two stops, out of which one is connected to rapid transit and you know that there will be no extentions to the line, gondolas make perfect sense. Also, they are not expensive to build, or operate and are environmentally friendly.
I know that Toronto will never think outside of the box. Even if it were, Islands residents would do everything in their power to stop any link to the mainland.
It would probably have to connect the most northeastern part of the island to mainland, because of the airport.