Blogs Mar 4, 2014 at 3:03 pm

Build This Gondola, Too

Paul Constant
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1
No.
hmmmmm on March 4, 2014 at 3:21 PM Report this
2
Ooo, let's create this special non-elected bunch of people to tax us and build the gondolas because we don't want politicians messing with this thing because, ummm, oh, right. Monorail. Nevermind.
Algernon on March 4, 2014 at 3:23 PM Report this
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I know! Let's build hoverboard skate tracks up the hill! With plastic rain covers!
Will in Seattle on March 4, 2014 at 3:32 PM Report this
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The Peak to Peak between Capitol Hill and Queen Anne - that's the best gondola.
seandr on March 4, 2014 at 3:44 PM Report this
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Paul, why not have a gondola with you in the bathtub? Your rubber ducky will have a pal.
dnt trust me on March 4, 2014 at 3:54 PM Report this
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What if we all have, like, personal gondolas that run on the street on wheels?
MacCrocodile on March 4, 2014 at 3:58 PM Report this
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It is enough that we once had them during the Seattle World's Fair fifty plus years ago. Of course, most of you reading this wouldn't know this. They were slow, leaky
and the operators wouldn't allow more than two people at time to ride in one. Little kids would spit on the pedestrians below. It was a wonderful idea.
Fairhaven on March 4, 2014 at 4:02 PM Report this
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Because the 8 sucks!!
ansible on March 4, 2014 at 4:03 PM Report this
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Should be about as safe and cleanly as those public bathrooms we've put in and taken back out.
Roses on March 4, 2014 at 4:07 PM Report this
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Paul, you are correct. But you forgot the link.

Let's build the Convention Center gondola because it's free but mildly useful. And then the Cap Hill gondola because it's massively useful and mildly cheap.
Matt the Engineer on March 4, 2014 at 4:11 PM Report this
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This is Seattle. We'll talk about it, and maybe even vote on it 9 or 10 times, but it will never actually happen.
very bad homo on March 4, 2014 at 4:22 PM Report this
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Yes, there's not enough mass transit systems in the city where one breakdown results in an obstacle that can't be bypassed and ruins a commute (trollies lose their power lines, the SLUT gets sideswiped, mudslides block Sounder trains).
ChefJoe on March 4, 2014 at 8:01 PM Report this
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People can fucking walk 8 blocks. Seriously.
hmmmmm on March 4, 2014 at 8:10 PM Report this
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Yes, because Capitol Hill and SLU are so underserved as for mass transit compared to the rest of Seattle.
Senor Guy on March 4, 2014 at 10:19 PM Report this
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This is the dumbest idea I have ever heard. Like the Chihuly Museum, no Seattle resident will use this, but we'll be stuck looking at it, and wiping spit off of our heads( #7).
Mr. Bradley on March 6, 2014 at 1:14 PM Report this

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