New cable car in western Canada to connect two peaks

TW BurgerMay 1st, 2007 - 16:08:08

The investment must be enormous, but I can't see this making business sense. The return on investment isn't there. This must be another 2010 winter games boondoggle. First it's a skating rink built on a marsh (I once saw a 50 metre section of road sink on one side and turn over near to vertical near the building site). Then a $90 million hydrogen system for a few buses to run for one winter.

I wonder what the cost to taxpayers this will be?

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BVMay 2nd, 2007 - 16:02:25

TW Burger - First of all, its a private enterprise funding it (Whistler-Blackcomb). Secondly, what makes you an expert on ROI analyis for a cable car?

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JFMay 2nd, 2007 - 16:39:16

'The ride will offer a view of a glacier and nearby mountain ranges.'

That's great - we can all drive up in our cars and take a gondola ride to watch the glaciers shrink to nothing from global warming. The money would be better spend on improving the train system from Vancouver to Whistler.

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Tristan Unsworth (circumstitions dot-com)May 5th, 2007 - 18:18:51

And if you wanna go a little further, just wait at the Alaskan border closest to the Pacific Ocean and wait for that underground tunnel to be built from Russia to link that country and North America.

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real gemMay 11th, 2007 - 16:33:02

Didn't Whistler have the most snow ever this year?...The Ice age is coming...

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