{"id":82301,"date":"2018-09-04T07:22:37","date_gmt":"2018-09-04T14:22:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/09\/cable-cars-could-ease-australian-traffic-woes"},"modified":"2018-09-04T07:22:37","modified_gmt":"2018-09-04T14:22:37","slug":"cable-cars-could-ease-australian-traffic-woes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/09\/cable-cars-could-ease-australian-traffic-woes","title":{"rendered":"Cable cars could ease Australian traffic woes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Y1Besasn8-E?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Sections of cities all over the world are being demolished to meet increasing demand for transport infrastructure. The process of building new roads, harbour crossings, metro systems and light rail lines seems unending. Large-scale construction includes loss of public space, housing and backyards.<\/p>\n<p>Historic suburbs, such as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/national\/nsw\/state-ditches-plans-for-westconnex-tunnel-sites-in-sydney-s-inner-west-20180628-p4zoco.html\">Sydney\u2019s Haberfield<\/a>, have suffered. And then there\u2019s the issue of cost blow-outs and traffic gridlock. There are rumblings, too, about environmental impacts and equity of access. But there is actually one public transport option that can mitigate many of these concerns: <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/cable\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">cable<\/a> cars.<\/p>\n<p>Cable cars now grace many urban skylines, including some of the world\u2019s most populous, congested and poorest cities, such as Colombia\u2019s city of Medellin, but also the US city of Portland. These cities have integrated cable cars with existing transport networks. The newer versions are cheap, quick to build and solar generating. Perhaps it\u2019s time for Australia to start looking skyward for solutions.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2018-09-cable-cars-ease-australian-traffic.html\">https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2018&#45;09-cable-cars-ease-australian-traffic.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sections of cities all over the world are being demolished to meet increasing demand for transport infrastructure. The process of building new roads, harbour crossings, metro systems and light rail lines seems unending. Large-scale construction includes loss of public space, housing and backyards. Historic suburbs, such as Sydney\u2019s Haberfield, have suffered. And then there\u2019s the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":467,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-habitats","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/467"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82301\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}