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Cable Car over Mt Wellington's Organ Pipes 8-Aug-2014 At 9:29:34 PM martym

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On 7/08/2014 Beuregaurd wrote:
>Climbers and cable cars coexist all over the world. A CC isn’t going to
>stop climbing. The telephriques in the alps are handy for climbers. A CC
>would be vastly more efficient than burning petrol to lift a ton of motor
>car with every tourist to the top of MW.
Is this proposed cable car going to be solar powered? Otherwise it's going to chew up just as much fuel to get each one of those one ton cars hanging from a cable up and down every 5 minutes.

>And It would give climbers a way
>up without having to hire a car or hike.
How do you get to the cable car? Is there an airport shuttle? Those things must weigh more than just one ton hey...